What is causing the obesity epidemic?

[Deleted54170User]

In my days of home and family I was told to eat everything on the plate if I wanted desert.

 

I would quit eating everything on the plate; if, I could get all the nutrition I needed just from a desert.

 

Why am I 30 pounds over weight?

 

Because I have no strenuous jobs to do?

 

I'm retired and not going to do the yard or maintenance chores around the house?

 

No one is paying me to do the chores I used to do for Board and Room, clothes, shoes, work suit and tie, for underwear, socks, blue jeans, plaid cowboy shirt, cowboy hat, shitKicking boots, whip, machete, 45 cal. six shooter, 7mm hunting rifle, miscellaneous items, beer, beer nuts, and BBQ once a week?

[Degurechaff]

^{Honestly the whole 'obesity' thing is simply due to convenience. If things weren't so readily available or easy to obtain then maybe people would have to go out of their way to get things.}

 

^{Though it's also moderation and effort that's needed. Just don't go balls deep into food and get a little air and go for a walk daily and most people should be good. Granted going outside nowadays seems to invite paranoia for everything going on in recent times. But that's probably suited for a different kind of thread.}

[Deleted67195711User]

It isn't one thing, but a combination of things.

 

Too much bad exercise and not enough good exercise. IE, too many spoon lifts and too few plate pushes. :smile: Seriously, there is an inverse relationship between the amount of exercise you do and the size of your butt'n'gut.

 

And how much we eat has an impact as well. I remember getting a full meal on a 9" plate as a kid but as an adult, I fill a 12" plate and go back for more. What's the old saw? It isn't the minutes you take to eat that make you fat, it's the seconds. Simply eating less helps.

What we eat is also important. Too much processed food and hollow calories has some impact. The saying was "If food comes in a box, it probably isn't good for you", We can add plastic packaging to that. We also eat far too many starches and too few fruits and vegetables.

And Degurechalf is also correct. It used to be that energy was expended in the obtaining and preserving of food. You wanted fruits and vegetables in the dead of winter you worked hard in the fall. You got the fruits and vegetables and made your own canned food for the winter. Now, you just trot down to the local market and plunk down a couple bucks for an over processed product.

 

So there is no simple answer to "What is causing the obesity explosion".

 

Now I am going to get some ice cream. See you.

[Mktavish]

What worked for me to lose about 35 lbs . Weight I gained from a back injury , and the choices I made over years.

I stopped powdered creamer , potato chips , most deep fried food.

Then some pool activites ... once / twice a week.

Before my surgery ... so not much physical activity yet.

 

Then after surgery another 5 and add muscle :) I hover about 173 lbs 5'10"

 

I can't stand skeletor women though ... how can they let themselves get that way ?

Women have to have curves :tongue: