This is really sad.
Why?
Great conditioning.
I think I like it best at the end where it says that this “also applies to those who use snow blowers”. So now just walking behind or riding a machine doing all the work is also a heart attack waiting to happen.
[quote]MrZsasz wrote:
I think I like it best at the end where it says that this “also applies to those who use snow blowers”. So now just walking behind or riding a machine doing all the work is also a heart attack waiting to happen.[/quote]
Pretty sure this is the problem
I like how the cure to being extremely sedentary is to continue being extremely sedentary.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
I like how the cure to being extremely sedentary is to continue being extremely sedentary. [/quote]
Yep
Shoveling is the worst. It lights my back up like you wouldn’t believe.
I wonder what kind of people read that and actually got tid bits off of it.
[quote]Phoenix44e wrote:
I wonder what kind of people read that and actually got tid bits off of it.[/quote]
I recently read that almost 30% of the WORLD population (or 2.1 billion people) are overweight or obese as of this year. The developing world is jumping on that train in a big way. As I recall the estimate based on current trends was that 50% of the world would be overweight or obese by 2030.
MIND=BLOWN
Well, I guess somebody has to taste delicious come the zombie apocalypse…
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]Phoenix44e wrote:
I wonder what kind of people read that and actually got tid bits off of it.[/quote]
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Know what the worst part of that picture is?
The 2nd agricultural revolution promised to end world hunger.
It just made people fat instead and kept the starving people still starving.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]Phoenix44e wrote:
I wonder what kind of people read that and actually got tid bits off of it.[/quote]
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I like Shugharts take on this, yeah, maybe your genes are a loaded gun, but you pulled the trigger.
And reloaded.
Twice.
[quote]batman730 wrote:
I recently read that almost 30% of the WORLD population (or 2.1 billion people) are overweight or obese as of this year. The developing world is jumping on that train in a big way. As I recall the estimate based on current trends was that 50% of the world would be overweight or obese by 2030.
MIND=BLOWN
Well, I guess somebody has to taste delicious come the zombie apocalypse…[/quote]
Was that the same report of obesity costing over $2 trillion globally? What a stupid problem to have.
Here’s another nugget of gold:
Obesity research confirms long-term weight loss almost impossible
[quote]Will207 wrote:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/obesity-research-confirms-long-term-weight-loss-almost-impossible-1.2663585[/quote]
What the fuck.
WHAT THE FUCK.
WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE. WHERE THE FUCK WERE THE OBESE PEOPLE A CENTURY AGO THEN?
WTF!@#!$!%!%!@$!@$!#@!#@!$
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Edit-
Ok, I’ve calmed down and read the article.
It makes sense. Becoming obese changes your body in such a way that losing weight permanently is very difficult. Ok, makes sense.
And the shifting of the message to preventing obesity in the first place makes sense as well.
But the entire article just seems so irresponsible. What do you plan on doing for all the already existing obese people then? Just tell them to stay obese? Really? Is that the message you want to send?
[quote]Will207 wrote:
[quote]batman730 wrote:
I recently read that almost 30% of the WORLD population (or 2.1 billion people) are overweight or obese as of this year. The developing world is jumping on that train in a big way. As I recall the estimate based on current trends was that 50% of the world would be overweight or obese by 2030.
MIND=BLOWN
Well, I guess somebody has to taste delicious come the zombie apocalypse…[/quote]
Was that the same report of obesity costing over $2 trillion globally? What a stupid problem to have.
Here’s another nugget of gold:
Obesity research confirms long-term weight loss almost impossible
Yep, that’s the one. For the first time in human history too much food has become a bigger problem than not enough. Crazy.
The linked CBC article is interesting as well. As much as instinctively reject that kind of defeatist message, it does seem to hold true to my own anecdotal observations. Paints a pretty grim picture of the future.
[quote]magick wrote:
But the entire article just seems so irresponsible. What do you plan on doing for all the already existing obese people then? Just tell them to stay obese? Really? Is that the message you want to send?[/quote]
I wouldn’t say the article is irresponsible… it’s just reporting the current science.
I think the main message is to policymakers and program planners… that they’re better off taking their limited funds and allocating most of them to prevention and the rest to addressing undernourishment, but not to expect much in terms of weightloss.
[quote]1 Man Island wrote:
I wouldn’t say the article is irresponsible… it’s just reporting the current science.[/quote]
You’re right. I just find it hard to accept food science when they just continue talking about making carbs a dominant part of your meal.
It feels like they’re approaching the matter in the wrong way.
For example, there’s a concept that’s always repeated in the dieting articles in this website- It took you a while to get fat (and years to become morbidly obese), and so it will take you a while to lose fat.
Yet it’s clear that everyone just shouts “DEFEAT” when they fail to lose weight after months of anything besides absolute dedication.
True obesity would take months, if not years, of genuine effort to lose. But not a lot of people seem willing to give that kind of effort. And, given the research articles I’ve read in the past, no one seems to be demanding that kind of effort either.
And then you have the idiot shows like The Biggest Loser showing the wrong kind of genuine effort. And researchers have to make a big show of how they’re doing it the wrong way, blah blah blah.
In other words- The entire world-view of dieting is messed up. It seems asinine to proclaim that dieting doesn’t work when the world-view itself is messed up to begin with.
My interpretation (granted, I didn’t read all that carefully) was that they haven’t found any solutions to long term weight loss and one of the drivers of that was researchers trying to be overly polite and not stigmatize obesity. I think a lot on here would say, “Forget that, stigmatize away,” but researchers have found that is just not effective… though, if lack of stigmatization is leading to lack of solutions, some is obviously warranted.
And it’s not just psychological and poor choices. Shugart as written on here about former fat bastards and how once you become fat, even if you lose it all, you basically have to eat super-clean the rest of your life to keep it off.
[quote]batman730 wrote:
[quote]Will207 wrote:
[quote]batman730 wrote:
I recently read that almost 30% of the WORLD population (or 2.1 billion people) are overweight or obese as of this year. The developing world is jumping on that train in a big way. As I recall the estimate based on current trends was that 50% of the world would be overweight or obese by 2030.
MIND=BLOWN
Well, I guess somebody has to taste delicious come the zombie apocalypse…[/quote]
Was that the same report of obesity costing over $2 trillion globally? What a stupid problem to have.
Here’s another nugget of gold:
Obesity research confirms long-term weight loss almost impossible
Yep, that’s the one. For the first time in human history too much food has become a bigger problem than not enough. Crazy.
The linked CBC article is interesting as well. As much as instinctively reject that kind of defeatist message, it does seem to hold true to my own anecdotal observations. Paints a pretty grim picture of the future. [/quote]
I think to few people see the upside of all this.
You know what 99,99% of all our ancestors would have said to the proposition that you can literally eat and drink yourself to death?
Awesome!