Thief13x on 28/8/2007 at 02:05
Hmm, found this CNN article very interesting....(
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/27/obesity.study/index.html)
basically, people want the government to intervene in America's obesity problem. I quote from the article....
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Levi says individuals need the government's help to take control of their weight.
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"If you're telling people to eat healthier food and there are no grocery stores in the neighborhood; if you're telling them to be more physically active, and they live in poor, unsafe neighborhoods or in suburban neighborhoods with no sidewalks, then you've created an environment that doesn't make it possible for people to
exercise(no pun intended? or just a quick jab at us fatties?) that personal responsibility. That's where government plays a role."
I don't get it...didn't treadmills first appear in the 80's? wasn't the 80's some 25 years ago? So I live in a pretty rough neighborhood with a high drug-use rate in Florida, and I still go jogging 3 times a week (frequently with a heat index upwards of 95 degrees F), and go INSIDE (away from all the baddies keeping us fat!) the gym to work out. Additionally, before I had my motorcyce, I would WALK 20 minutes one way to the food-only-walmart to pick up some groceries that were healthier than the seven eleven 5 minutes away. NO wait! fuck walmart they're destroying our country!!!!!!1!:mad:
Personally, I don't see this as an obesity "problem" but rather as an obesity "opportunity"...an opportunity for me to get more ladies because more of the population is fatter than me!:D
What do you guys think? should the government help us out on this one?
AR Master on 28/8/2007 at 02:09
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The_Raven on 28/8/2007 at 02:34
For now on, I'm not going to stop eating KFC until the government tells me what to do.
Tocky on 28/8/2007 at 02:41
The government already has an excellent fitness program where they control your meals and give you plenty of exercise dodging bullets.
fett on 28/8/2007 at 02:41
Federal intervention concerning food intake is very Orsen Wells to me. There are times I have to restrain myself when it comes to watching people eat. How many times do I sit in a restaurant and watch a 300 lb. woman and her fat ass children suck down huge meals or go back to the buffet for that third ice cream cone? Groaning and moaning from the effort of trying to get in and out of the booth. STOP EATING YOU FAT FUCK!! Self-control.
On the other hand, I've got a kid with severe food allergies and we have to stay away from foods with processed sugar (fattening), enriched flour (fattening), concentrates, artificial flavoring, etc. The first thing I learned about grocery shopping is that in this country it costs almost 50% more to eat healthy than to eat all the artificial shit companies are churning out. I'm not even talking about organic stuff - I mean if you buy real meat (poultry, fish, beef, pork), fresh frozen vegetables (not canned with added preservatives and flavoring), fresh fruit, and block cheese (not pre-shredded with added starches), it is horribly expensive. Check the prices on these items against your average micro-wave meal, canned fruits and vegetables, etc. Price check healthy snacks (jerky, trail mix, nuts, raisins) against Oreos and Frito Lays. The artificial shit with preservatives and trans fat is WAAYYY cheaper in most cases. If the government is going to get involved, it should be in regulating prices so that poor people can afford to eat healthy. When a microwave burrito costs more than a few apples, oranges, or a single serving of frozen broccoli, something is horribly fucked up.*
As for exercise, do you have five square feet of floor anywhere in your life? Run in place, sit-ups, push-ups, stomach crunches, yoga, or stretching exercises you lazy fat fuckers. I'm sitting here with a cardio disease wishing I could rock climb or ride a bike, and perfectly capable fat-asses are whining because there's no sidewalk? SHUT YOUR FUCKING HOLE AND BUY SOME $5 DUMBBELLS AT FREDS.
Before you know it, people will want the government to regulate things like music and video games so they don't cause violence. Oh wate.
*This is of course a very short-sighted and ignorant suggestion since I'm not an economist and don't understand why it costs more to produce and distribute fresh food and aoidfnao0dfinnere080pi.
Scots Taffer on 28/8/2007 at 02:43
My return from San Francisco has prompted me to take up a high-fruit-and-vegetable intake diet, I'm not sure if it was the anal sex or the over-abundance of fast-food joints and piled-high mediocre food that did it, but I really don't want to even look at a burger for at least a month.
fett on 28/8/2007 at 02:45
It was probably the anal sex while eating a burger that did you in.
Tocky on 28/8/2007 at 03:07
Well just the mention of it puts me right off burgers.
I think you have stumbled onto a most effective clockwork orange diet.
Muzman on 28/8/2007 at 03:15
The government could kill the corn subsidy and, you know, make it more difficult to stick corn syrup in just about everything (and get yas slightly closer to that free market thing American companies and economists are constantly leaning on us squirts about)
Aerothorn on 28/8/2007 at 03:27
Some dipshit on the Hampshire boards insulted me for avoiding corn syrup - he claimed that it was "just another form of sugar" and that there was no difference between it and natural cane sugar.
Um, no.
