Three-Quarters of US Adults Are Now Overweight or Obese 152
An anonymous reader shares a report: Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to a sweeping new study. The findings have wide-reaching implications for the nation's health and medical costs as it faces a growing burden of weight-related diseases.
The study reveals the striking rise of obesity rates nationwide since 1990 -- when just over half of adults were overweight or obese -- and shows how more people are becoming overweight or obese at younger ages than in the past. Both conditions can raise the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, and shorten life expectancy.
The study's authors documented increases in the rates of overweight and obesity across ages. They were particularly alarmed by the steep rise among children, more than one in three of whom are now overweight or obese. Without aggressive intervention, they forecast, the number of overweight and obese people will continue to go up -- reaching nearly 260 million people in 2050. Further reading: Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss.
The study reveals the striking rise of obesity rates nationwide since 1990 -- when just over half of adults were overweight or obese -- and shows how more people are becoming overweight or obese at younger ages than in the past. Both conditions can raise the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, and shorten life expectancy.
The study's authors documented increases in the rates of overweight and obesity across ages. They were particularly alarmed by the steep rise among children, more than one in three of whom are now overweight or obese. Without aggressive intervention, they forecast, the number of overweight and obese people will continue to go up -- reaching nearly 260 million people in 2050. Further reading: Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss.
There goes my karma (Score:4, Interesting)
Maybe we should make it ok to tease fat kids again? Or at least go back to the 80's concept that being fat was undesirable. Crazy, I know, but being incredibly overweight is actually a bad thing.
Re:There goes my karma (Score:5, Insightful)
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Example: Mom arrested for 10 year old walking to store [go.com]
When I was 10, my 8 year old sister and I would walk around a mile each way to the store on weekend mornings to get stuff to bring back home for breakfast with parents.
Because being a dick makes everything better (Score:4, Interesting)
This has been a public service announcement.
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How about, crazy though this sounds, we just let people have their own relationship with their body and respect their choices even though they may be different than ours....
The idea that you give two craps about anyone else's state of health is laughable. If that were the case, you would be just as irate about a thin person who eats garbage.
Just let people live their lives. They don't need anyone to tell them how to live.
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How about, crazy though this sounds, we just let people have their own relationship with their body and respect their choices even though they may be different than ours....
The idea that you give two craps about anyone else's state of health is laughable. If that were the case, you would be just as irate about a thin person who eats garbage.
Just let people live their lives. They don't need anyone to tell them how to live.
Recent studies indicate that approximately 77% of young Americans are ineligible for military service, with obesity being a leading disqualifier. Who are we going to have defend us if our political leaders get us into world war 3? Also as people are more obese they have shorter lifespans, quality of life issues not able to participate in activities they might want to, depression, amongst many other issues. All of these things compound. Maybe you don't care, but the solution is actually quite simple to put d
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approximately 77% of young Americans are ineligible for military service
Wait, I can get out of the next military draft by...guzzling Mountain Dew and eating Doritos? Much easier and more fun than going to Canada!
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approximately 77% of young Americans are ineligible for military service
Wait, I can get out of the next military draft by...guzzling Mountain Dew and eating Doritos? Much easier and more fun than going to Canada!
We have plenty of Mountain Dew and Doritos in Canada too, just in case.
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I get that there are health concerns. That is not my point.
My point is that people get to make unhealthy decisions.
Yes, we should help people who seek help. Yes, we should incentivize good eating habits. No, we should not judge someone based on their body size.
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Yes, we should incentivize good eating habits.
We should disincentivize poor eating habits, to be honest.
He's not my brother, he's heavy. (Score:2)
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Just let people live their lives. They don't need anyone to tell them how to live.
HAHAHAHAHA says Coke who spent over $5 billion advertising sugary drinks (globally), and food advertisers who spent $660 million in just one month (December 2022) on promoting sugary, processed, salty foods in just the U.S., and alcohol companies who spent over $8 billion advertising their products in just 2023 alone....companies that produce and sell and market and profit off unhealthy products seem to have no problem telling people how to live.
But, somehow, if I even MENTION that it is unhealthy to be o
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If you don't know them, they don't need your commentary.
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But I am pointing out the hypocrisy in claiming that those who want people to live long, healthy, disease-free lives should KEEP OUR MOUTHS SHUT while the for-profit sugar
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Maybe we should make it ok to tease fat kids again?
Now that's just not fuckin' fair. Kids don't get to choose what sort of crap their parents fill the fridge and pantry with, so it's not their fault when they end up rotund.
It's not that the kids are lazy and not getting enough exercise, because it takes a ridiculous amount of physical activity to burn off all the calories from an unhealthy diet. The human body is quite fuel efficient.
If you want to make fun of the parents, however, have at it.
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Maybe we should make it ok to tease fat kids again?
Megacorps getting rich off ultraprocessed foods designed to be as addictive as possible and which fuck with your metabolism. Parents struggling to get by working two jobs, hainvg neither the time nor funds to cook healthy meals. Ruinous regulations generating a debt-fuelled built environment incredibly hostile to active travel and especially children. And other megacorps making devices and system also designed to be as addictive as possible to keepthose kid
Not a coincidence (Score:2, Insightful)
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So you want to keep us in overpriced rentals that are associated with good public transport in a very few urban centers. You may be thin, but your retirement account is not with you but your landlords estate in rural america.
There is some truth to this. Rent is high in dense areas, and mass transit is poor. At least that's the way it is in the US. However, that's not the way it is in many countries, especially in Europe. Somehow, the US is different, but it's not just that the combination of density and poor transit is unavoidable. Many other countries have made it work, but not the US.
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Those countries are significantly smaller than the USA. Also many European countries got their infrastructure bombed back to the stone age during WWII, and had to start over-- and did so with hindsight.
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Funny, I used my car -- a gasser -- to go to the store, buy me a weights set, and bring it home. I fit a 6 ft barbell into a mini.
Mehtinks you place way too much blame on the instrument (the car) and not the people who own them.
Oh, I should just live in a city and go to a gym full of gym rats, pilates addicts, and everyone judging you. Fuck that.
Can you imagine bringing home a 6 ft barbell and 135 pounds of iron plates in a bus? Train? You make me laugh.
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I am pretty confident if you had to carry that barbell home you would have got more exercise. Its not about exceptions, its about if life makes you do exercise as part of living well you will get exercise. If you force people to walk 30 minutes to work then they will get 1 hour of exercise every work day. Sure SOME people will lift weights in that time but most people won't and just sleep in an extra half hour. The thing is we are talking in general not finding examples that are exceptions to normal human b
Re: Not a coincidence (Score:2)
It adds up.
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I know how! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I know how! (Score:4, Insightful)
Just keep calling people fat. Eventually they'll get the hint.
Re:I know how! (Score:4, Insightful)
It worked for smoking. The number of people who smoke has plummeted over the decades [gallup.com] through continual warnings of its dangers. Just keep calling people fat. Eventually they'll get the hint.
It probably has more to do with banning smoking in more places, more employers screening for nicotine usage, and the ever increasing price of a pack of cigarettes. 20 years ago a pack was like $3 and these days its at least $10.
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Try Australia. $61 per pack of 30. (About USD40)
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Humans evolved as hunter/gatherers (Score:2)
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And learn about gastrointestinal flora-- which evolve at a totally different rate, largely eliminating the advantages of the so-called paleo diet.
Ironically, the push towards low-fat foods has resulted in manufacturers loading foods with sugars, salts and glutamates to replace the missing flavor, and make the foods just a little bit more addictive. This is also how manufactures save money, leading to the cheap foods that are widely available being heavily processed-- so if your poor, or inflation is high,
MAHA (Score:5, Insightful)
Can we please start by banning known unhealthy ingredients?
https://legalinsurrection.com/... [legalinsurrection.com]
The European and Asian nations don't allow much of the crap permitted in American foods because they are unhealthy.
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Can we please start by banning known unhealthy ingredients? https://legalinsurrection.com/... [legalinsurrection.com]
The European and Asian nations don't allow much of the crap permitted in American foods because they are unhealthy.
And yet if this information were to somehow go from Insightful status to Well-Known status, do you really think the personal responsibility deficit is gonna change much?
In 2024 EVERY cigarette smoker knows the risks. And yet it’s still a leading killer. I fail to believe society hasn’t quite grasped the concept of shitty unhealthy addictive food yet. They know. They don’t care.
bad link (Score:2)
Link goes to /. story, not original article
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Look at who posted the article. Surprised?
The msmash script must be malfunctioning.
This isn't a Uniguely American thing, but it is. (Score:5, Interesting)
Other nations are starting to have this issue as well but Americans have to be first in anything not good for them or the rest of the world.
1. Cheap, non nutritious foods are high profit margin and addictive. Corporations promote the hell out of them for this reason.
2. American society continuously gears itself towards convenience over health. The top complaint I hear about any town center is there is never enough parking. Campus? Never enough parking. We don't build around public transit and therefore want to take our cars everywhere, right up to the door. Strip malls won out over large malls because they are "cheaper" but also require less walking. People just drive from store to store.
3. Who has time to work out or pay for a gym? I myself am exhausted after a day's work even if that involves sitting at a desk. That and when kids are involved, energy is devoted to them. If the weather is terrible, a park isn't an option.
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It's largely US portion sizes
In the UK if you buy a sandwich it's two slices of bread with a slice of ham and a slice of cheese.
In the US if you buy a sandwich it's a monstrous loaf-like sub with about an inch of cold cuts jammed in there.
Go to the movies in the US and get a literal bucket of popcorn.
Of course US tendency not to cook at home and eat unhealthy fast food doesn't help either.
But really, just stopping eating so much !!! If you're inactive, then go out for a brick 20-30 min walk once a day.
Catch-22 gained weight, now Catch-44. (Score:2)
Places where there's more public transportation are noticeably thinner. People walk the last 6 blocks or so to and from destinations.
The problem with US public transportation is that mostly the desperate and substance-abusers take it, making it too risky for the middle class, or at least it seems too risky*. It's a Catch-22: can't get enough middle class to take it until enough middle class take it.
* Car accidents are arguably more average risk than an attack on a tram.
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3. Who has time to work out or pay for a gym? I myself am exhausted after a day's work even if that involves sitting at a desk. That and when kids are involved, energy is devoted to them. If the weather is terrible, a park isn't an option.
Eat correctly, and you don't need to go to the Gym if you don't want to.
I was over 100kg at one point; I started in 2014 to go fuck it and eat better.
my best was to get down to 73kg, but I'm sitting at 85kg
2024 - 10 years later, I m still at 85 - 5kg heavear then I want to be, but I don't exercise in the slightest, as I eat better.
The Optimism of Uncertainty by Howard Zinn (Score:2)
https://www.thenation.com/arti... [thenation.com]
"In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy?
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to
Yo Yo effect (Score:5, Interesting)
Link to main article? (Score:2)
Wrong linked article? (Score:2)
What many aren't saying (Score:2)
A big part of the problem is the fact that the majority of Americans spend far too much time dealing with work, and don't have enough time on recreation. By the time people are far enough into their careers to get more time off from work, we have been conditioned not to be as active, because every time we turn around, we get text/SMS messages or e-mails from work asking about this and that, even when we aren't on the clock.
Did you know that in the USA, there is no required amount of vacation time off per
Definition of obesity (Score:4, Funny)
According to the WHO, everyone with a BMI of 30 or more is obese.
I propose we raise that definition to 40 or more, because I don't want to be obese.
Not shocking, my advice (Score:2)
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It's obvious - eat less while still covering your nutritional requirements. When you get to your desired weight, stop reducing your intake. Do not increase it. No brainer, right?
Nobody wants to hear it. They want an easy fix that doesn't involve not 'free feeding' whenever they want on whatever they want.
You might as well try and hold back the tide with a bailing bucket. They don't want to be helped.
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What is there to do? Most overweight people who say they want to lose weight are not serious enough about it to take the required action.
What I'd like to do next would help me, not them. I'd like to legally classify obesity as a deleterious lifestyle choice and legislate reduced tax-funded protection from the consequences of those choices.
Move the goal posts (Score:2)
So what? Just move the goal posts like they do with so many other things these days e.g. proficiency in math and English to qualify for a high-school diploma.
It's the crap in US food (Score:2)
We *know* high fructose corn syrup adds weight (per the 1970s: sure, your body processes fructose more easily and faster than sucrose... but I doubt that 1 in 100 /. readers do outside manual labor every day. The result is... added weight.)
Demonstrate that the horemones in US meats that go into your body when you eat it doesn't help put weight on *you*.
It's only anectdotal, but most people visiting Eurupe who have celiac, etc, suddenly can eat regular bread, etc (they grow different wheat in the EU).
And on,
me too (Score:2)
I agree I am 3/4 obese. Working to get it down to 1/2. It's someone else's fault, I'm sure.
Half in 1990? (Score:2)
> The study reveals the striking rise of obesity rates nationwide since 1990 -- when just over half of adults were overweight or obese
They make it sound like half is perfectly ok, but 75% is a disaster.
How was it not a wake-up call that most people are overweight? So here we are 35 years later, and nothing has been learned.
The obesity curve (Score:4, Interesting)
In North America, the poorer you are, the heavier you're more likely to be. Until you get poor enough that you get thin... The cheapest foods per calorie include white rice, white sugar, flour, and foods from flour (pasta, noodles, etc.). The greater the divide gets between the top an bottom, the fatter your populace is likely to become.
Of course exercise matters. But even with all else being equal, the quality of your food matters. A lot.
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> The cheapest foods per calorie...
If you don't want to be fat, then trying to maximize calorie intake shouldn't be your goal!
Cut out white flour products and go for wholewheat.
Eat more fruit and vegetables.
To be healthy and not gain weight you want to eat food that is bulky and NOT high in calories.
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I guess I should have clarified it further. The cheapest calories also tend to be dense. You aren't maximizing calorie intake on purpose, you're buying what's cheapest, and meals of foods with dense calories and a high glycemic index leads to weight issues.
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Yeah, but if you are eating too many calories then calorie-dense food is not what you want. Switch out the white rice, white bread and white sugar for some vegatables and wholewheat products (pasta, bread).
It doesn't matter if your dollars buy less calories, since that is what you want if you are overweight. Fiber rich food will also be more healthy.
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In North America, the poorer you are, the heavier you're more likely to be. Until you get poor enough that you get thin... The cheapest foods per calorie include white rice, white sugar, flour, and foods from flour (pasta, noodles, etc.). The greater the divide gets between the top an bottom, the fatter your populace is likely to become.
Of course exercise matters. But even with all else being equal, the quality of your food matters. A lot.
Food quality matters, but I don't think the cost of food is the issue.
When you're physically drained from working physical labour (construction, service industry) unhealthy foods will be more tempting and harder to resist. You have less leisure time to exercise, and thinness has less of an immediate payoff. You don't need to look good to impress your friends as much as you need to make rent.
Food quality is still important, but I don't think so from a monetary perspective (or they the poor wouldn't buy junk
Good news! (Score:2)
At least our invaders won't need to destroy too much infrastructure and we get on with our Oreo trays soon after the new order is installed. I'm sure that's high on the list for rebuilding, the regional Nabisco factories. No American is going to be able to physically run (in any sense) for very long. And those who hunker and shoot will eventually run out of bullets. The unfit will sell out the goodie-goodies for a Ho-Ho or even Little Debbie. I, for one, welcome our new fitness overlords. Cardio cardio card
RFK has the solution! (Score:2)
RFK knows how to solve this. Eliminate inoculations and stop fluoridating drinking water!! Woo-hoo! Problem solved.
{/sarcasm}
BMI is poor way to class people (Score:2)
BMI is poor way to class people
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I've struggled with my weight on and off, it was incredibly annoying when I got really fit and could do 100 pushups at once, and my doctor still nagged me about being "overweight" because my BMI was high. Doctors like BMI because it's simple and easy, and they hate doing extra work when they can just nag.
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They mean that BMI is not an indicator of health.
There are plenty of very active, extremely healthy fat people. There are plenty of very sedentary, extremely unhealthy thin people.
I am one of the obese healthy people. I walk at least 3 miles every day, 7+ on the weekends. I love to hike and ride my bike. I am fat. However, all my blood work always comes back in very normal levels across the board. I have low blood pressure. I feel very healthy, yet I get the passive/aggressive notices at the doctors office
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Look at this graph [thelancet.com]. Here's the source article [thelancet.com].
I understand that BMI is a simplistic measure, and there are exceptions. But if there were no relation between BMI and health, these would be flat lines. Instead these are strong, strong associations.
Actually I'm surprised the minima aren't wider and flatter than they are... at the population level, there really is a quite distinct "ideal BMI."
Guess we have to redefine normal (Score:2)
If the majority is overweight then maybe that is the new normal. New headline: 25% of American adults are underweight
Not a real Study... Obesity is decreasing (Score:2)
Meanwhile, the CDCs study where they actually go out and collect data is showing actually showing less people are obese. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/o... [cbsnews.com]
"Overweight" (Score:2)
In all likelihood, they're talking about the BMI definition of "overweight", which is famously bad, since it can't distinguish between a bodybuilder and a person who is actually fat.
Moreover, the definition for "overweight" has changed over the years, arbitrarily. The set point for "overweight" is defined by people, with no particularly objective measurement of what that means. Turns out for some definitions of the term "overweight", all cause mortality is LOWER than people that are not overweight.
But if th
so then the other 25% ? (Score:2)
Look on the bright side (Score:2)
Only half are fatter than the median!!
Doing it backwards (Score:2)
How did this get published? (Score:2)
According to the CDC, which is a far more reputable source than some unknown "sweeping new study", 35% of Americans are obese [cdc.gov]. Concerning, but far lower than three quarters. Second the CDC is using BMI as the in
Attribution please (Score:2)
Average supermarket explains why (Score:2)
Supermarkets are set up to get you to buy crap. Add to that things that appear healthy unitl you look at the ingredients and wonder "how the fuck could they get that much sugar into that thing". Everything has a dash of sugar here, a pile of salt there.
Re:Put down the cheetos and sugary fizzy syrup wat (Score:4, Informative)
Frankly, keep it simple. Walking an hour every day and not eating processed food is a good start for most people.
"Properly working out", just scares people away.
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Frankly, keep it simple. Walking an hour every day and not eating processed food is a good start for most people.
"Properly working out", just scares people away.
Working out is actually not required and may not even be that healthy. Some exercise is good though. As to "processed foods", that is false advice. It really depends on what is in there. Avoid sugar and its camouflaged forms. Keep sodium low. Make sure fat is not low quality, but the amount of fat is non-critical. Hence eating processed foods is not a problems as long as you actually read and understand the info on the package. What is a massive problem is eating low quality processed foods.
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eating processed foods is not a problems as long as you actually read and understand the info on the package. What is a massive problem is eating low quality processed foods.
But that's the problem. Theoretically the amount of processing and the level of quality could be independent, but in reality, most processed foods are low quality. And that's just talking about weight and diabetes. There's also the issue of all the unpronounceable chemicals that do other bad things.
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I also blame all this technology, everyone sits around now. Instead of walking down to the corner store to get food you have it delivered. You work from home? For most that means eating snacks all day while not having to go somewhere to work which involves walking even if you drive/ride.
Environment plays a big part of health, our current living environment is to sit around all day and h
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It does matter what you eat, because your body doesn't really have an evolutionary history to feel the right amount of satiety from pure sugars, starches, and fats, which simply don't exist in nature the way they do in grocery stores.
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Mod parent up.
If you trigger your pancreas with a sugar/starch overload, it's going to store it, a very simple equation. Less carb intake, less stored, better chance of burning fat.
Exercise burns fat, but at a much lower rate than simply eating a sane, low-carb diet. Read Gary Taube's books on the sugar industry if you had any questions. There is a carb industry, and it knows you get a fat rush by consuming sugar/starches. A lot of the Florida sugar and Midwestern corn and wheat business is built on it, not
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It can be, but even then the concentrations of fat in our food is just something we're not adapted to. Other than like... blubber, there's nowhere in nature you're going to find as much lipid content as you would in your average stack of pringles. The way your body responds is roughly "Oh I sense fat, and my stomach is getting rather full, so I guess I'll feel full now" but if you're eating extremely high fat processed foods, that will be a thousand or more calories past where it would happen with roast c
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Sorry, can't do that. We're working from home now which means sitting on our asses except when going to the fridge to snack every 15 minutes.
That 3/4 of Amercians are overweight or obese is not surprising when one considers how little they have to move now that they're at home all day.
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We're working from home now which means sitting on our asses except when going to the fridge to snack every 15 minutes.
The trick is to not have any snacks in the fridge.
Right now, my fridge has carrots, cabbage, tofu, soy milk, and some leftover bean & turnip soup, but nothing that I want to eat.
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Right now, my fridge has carrots, cabbage, tofu, soy milk, and some leftover bean & turnip soup, but nothing that I want to eat.
My fridge has home-pickled carrots, radishes and green beans. I find them more inviting as a snack than plain vegetables.
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Body fat is governed by hormones, as is hunger and satiety. Eat the right things and the body resolves a lot of the current food-driven ailments, like metabolic syndrome and stuff that falls under it. Too many people eat, in a low key way, to "get high" instead of eating for nutrition, and this has become highly normalized in western society. A heavy refined sugar/white flour diet throws some of these hormones out of wack and results in both excessive hunger and weight gain. I lost 50+ lbs by adopting a l
Re:Put down the cheetos and sugary fizzy syrup wat (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't think these high obesity numbers are due to people not knowing how to exercise, or not knowing how to eat healthy food.
I think it is much more a matter of values. They don't consider it a problem that they are overweight. They are totally fine with that. They don't like exercising much and they DO like their eating habits. So, they are living the lifestyle of their choice, it suits them, and it includes being obese.
When they encounter judgey posts online ordering them to change their lifestyles, "just because," they are going to ignore that just as quickly as you would ignore posts insisting that you must go vegetarian to save the environment (or whatever). Nobody likes being told what their values should be.
Maybe obese people will die younger. Maybe they are ok with that, too. We all die eventually so we must all make decisions between quality of life and quantity of life. Who are we to say how others should make those decisions?
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Order half portions at restaurants. or don't finish everything they put on your plate. Especially if you're going out or to a cafeteria for lunch every day.
People are usually shocked that a plate of butter chicken with rice and naan is like 3k+ calories.
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The main reason for the overweight epidemic is government advice. Too many poor trusting people believed what the government told them about food: eschew meat and fat, eat "healthy whol grains" and vegetable oils.
Complete BS. You won't find many overweight, much less obese, people who are actually following that government advice.
The problem is most people don't or can't follow it. Advising people to avoid fat and sugar is one thing. Them doing it is another.
Particularly when there is a whole lot of money to be made getting them to ignore it. And professional marketers who know how to bypass persuasion and go straight to hormonal appeals.
Can you imagine a government public service announcement advising eating less
Ugh (Score:2)
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The thing is people are just lazy, that is what any normal organism would evolve to be in an environment with limited resources, any creature that expends energy needlessly (i.e. not lazy) would probably die. The thing is we are now living in an environment where we have to do practically nothing to get food, you can just order it and not even have to leave the house. You can work from home, so you don't actually have to even get out of bed to work. I know people like, it but in the long run its not good fo
Re:We're almost there! (Score:5, Funny)
This is America and we always give 110%
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Says the mathematically challenged American.
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"Diet foods taste like blip,"
I actually quite like vegetables so speak for yourself. I don't know how you yanks can just eat nothing but tasteless meat, bread with way too much sugar and that yellow sticky gunk thats amusingly called cheese.
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No. That was 1998 [nih.gov].
Without compensating for that (or even mentioning it), this "study" is just marketing for weight loss drugs.
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However, I am also thinking, how much do you want to bet that there will be a class action lawsuit against the drug companies in about 10 years when we find out the unknown serious side effects ?
Miracle drug causes another serious problem after time. Usually happens.
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I am not saying that all fat shits are fascists but
most fascists are fat shits.
Citation needed.