Predicting 42% by 2030. insert appropriate face palm here
USA #1!!!
China will probably have the largest economy by then, at least we will be #1 at something.
The problem is 100% attributable to those damned Baconators…
It is sad.
The funny thing is this generation is not fundamentally different from the ones before it.
I mean I’m 38 and when I was in elementary school there was “that one fat kid” or two in the school of about 200 or something.
But we didn’t have more will power or whatever…it was a combination of fewer calories on average over time and more exercise, even if it was stupid shit like playing tag or riding your bike around the block a few times. (I’m talking grade 4 or 5 kind of age here)
I think we all loved Coca-Cola and candy and cartoons and shitty video games…but the pop came in one size only (a can for personal use…2 liters was a size meant for the family in the fridge…NOT your hand!) the chocolate bars came in one size and not XTREME HUNGER BUSTER size and cartoons stopped at 11AM on Saturdays and Atari and Colleco Vision couldn’t even hold a 10 year-old interest for more than 30 minutes.
So it’s not that I was walking uphill 5 miles to get to school and I loved eating broccoli…but it just wasn’t so much of that bad shit.
I’ve been reading about the topic lately. Watched some documentaries as well (some were gross) and it leaves me with a dilemma : For one side, people should be free to choose their own path so if they want to become obese, that’s their problem. However, for the other side, a 42% of obesity (other European countries will follow) is unacceptable and could have very negative effects on the society and economy in general, so should governments start taking direct action to stop all this?
The videos I watched were :
-The Skinny on Fat saga (4 episodes so far) : The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 1): An Epidemic for Every Body - YouTube
-Americas Crazy Obesity Problem (Feb 2012) : - YouTube (I almost threw up)
-Fat chance USA : Fat Chance - USA - YouTube
Yes you shoudl have the choice to become obese ‘IF’ you can be and are responsible for your own costs. When you are a cost to society, the economy and the healthcare system you have a responsibility to minimise that cost
[quote]putter2712 wrote:
Yes you shoudl have the choice to become obese ‘IF’ you can be and are responsible for your own costs. When you are a cost to society, the economy and the healthcare system you have a responsibility to minimise that cost[/quote]
I believe in social welfare. But it is getting to the point where I agree with this^
America is so buff it can’t get on da bus. Beefcake.
Everyone is just bulking, they will cut down to their contest weight before 2030.
fuck it. more hot womenz for us
That scene in the youtube vids showing that extra large coffins didn’t exist in the 90’s but they are selling at least 4 a month now is ridiculous considering they are 52" wide and can carry 1,000lbs. He said he has had to make a coffin that big for someone who was only 11 years old.
I see kids lately who make me wonder how parents can ignore how huge their kid is getting. A 15 year old girl shouldn’t weigh 235lbs.
The woman in that vid blamed her girth on the man she was with before who loved fat women and got her fatter until she was immobile.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
That scene in the youtube vids showing that extra large coffins didn’t exist in the 90’s but they are selling at least 4 a month now is ridiculous considering they are 52" wide and can carry 1,000lbs. He said he has had to make a coffin that big for someone who was only 11 years old.
I see kids lately who make me wonder how parents can ignore how huge their kid is getting. A 15 year old girl shouldn’t weigh 235lbs.
The woman in that vid blamed her girth on the man she was with before who loved fat women and got her fatter until she was immobile.[/quote]
Its always someone else’s fault. That’s what I love most about this country. The acceptance of not accepting personal responsibility.
We love to blame others for our own problems.
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
Everyone is just bulking, they will cut down to their contest weight before 2030.[/quote]
I just sprayed my beer over the IPad with that one.
Well played sir!
[quote]Aggv wrote:
We love to blame others for our own problems. [/quote]
It means she was a “feedee”…like on that obese lovers website. They get someone to feed them until they can’t move and it turns them on. The one feeding gets off on making his “luver” fatter over time.
That is why the tears don’t make sense. NO ONE gets that heavy by accident…and honestly, you lose the right to cry about it if you did it because it made you horny.
They get off on getting fatter but then cry about it until the next meal?
[quote]caveman101 wrote:
[quote]putter2712 wrote:
Yes you shoudl have the choice to become obese ‘IF’ you can be and are responsible for your own costs. When you are a cost to society, the economy and the healthcare system you have a responsibility to minimise that cost[/quote]
I believe in social welfare. But it is getting to the point where I agree with this[1]
Government programs to cut smoking or the road toll have been staggeringly successful (at least in Oz) so there is hope that a more concerted approach to the problem could pay serious dividends. The cost of supporting obesity related illnesses in the public health system will pretty well guaruntee that something will be done. But to give you an idea of how hard it will be, start a conversation in the office and see how far you get!
-
/quote ↩︎
indeed. Food choice and weight problems are so much more personal and dangerously loaded than smoking. The ban in the UK worked really well, too.
I can imagine a future where half the population is massively obese, and the other half is super fit from crossfit and emergamcy personal who can deadlift 1000lb+ and can lift the fat fucks down the stairs when they die of heart failure
Wow I think I might have to re-invent the mirror.