Anti-Obesity Ad

[dbk]

Nobody learns how to lead a healthy lifestyle growing up..i blame the parents

 

[clamum]

More like parent shaming if you ask me.

Agreed.

I think it's a great, powerful advertisement.

 

[Kaido]

Nobody learns how to lead a healthy lifestyle growing up..i blame the parents

Yeah, but who taught them, you know? If they were never educated themselves, then how can they teach their kids? Nutrition is a confusing world - honestly it took me years to get a real handle on what is healthy & what is not healthy, partly through reading and partly through trial & error. There's so much marketing & mis-information out there, it's just crazy!

I mean, just look at the basic concept of a diet: a short-term program that you go on to lose weight. That concept doesn't even make sense if you think about it. If it's a temporary thing & you go back to your normal eating habits, then you'll go back to the same weight - thus the only thing that really works long-term is a lifestyle change. But you can make a killing selling products that advertise the myth! :awe:

 

[positivedoppler]

Obese people aren't necessarily just fat people who are lazy, refuse to work out,or choose to over indulge. I know plenty of people (even vegetarians) who are classified as obese or severely obese who slaves away long hours doing desk jobs and are swamped with work once they go home. Evolution has programmed us with an incredible desire for high calorie food due to a necessity for survival in a time when those most motivated to obtain calories have the highest survival rate. Unfortunately a few decades of technological advancement in Frankenstein mass food production has thrown a monkey wrench into our biological process.

I hope people don't get too full of themselves just because they have a six pack. Yes it's possible for everyone but it's an uphill struggle in this day and age. Temptations are everywhere and cheap and social and economical demands often encourages us to lose focus in certain areas. How many of use are fit, set on top 90% of the economic scale, and raise a mentally healthy family while maintaining a good marriage?

It's hard to hit 3 out of 3 in life especially when any one of those 3 areas requires so much from us. I am very healthy because I eat mostly right (back occasional potato chip weakness makes my 6 pack come and go) and I make a very nice salary because I bust my ass off at work so I can say I'm two for two. However, I stuck out completely in the family life and I was a failure of a husband. Even with no kids I couldn't keep all cylinders firing in life. If I had the burden of kids and keeping a marriage happy, I can only imagine how difficult it would be to maintain a gym schedule while allocating so much of my time at work.

So I guess at the end of my long rant, I just want to say please don't judge people too harshly because they let one or two aspects of life slip. Some people gain weight, some people are at the bottom 50% of the economy, and some people like me failed in family life. We are like a bunch of Salmon swimming upstream to survive amidst a gauntlet of Grizzly bears. If you are the few that made it up the water fall, don't laugh at the ones who get nabbed by the hungry Grizzlies down stream. I'd gladly give up my 6pack and fair salary if I can swim upstream and spawn a happy family

 

[VirtualLarry]

but we haven't suddenly gotten fat in this country because everyone developed a metabolism disorder in the last 3 decades).

Yes, we have. It's called "High Fructose Corn Syrup". It fucks with your normal metabolism something fierce, and causes people to gain weight and get diabetes.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Wow, if this isn't the posterchild for irony.

A thread full of people who say there are too many people in the world complaining because being fat might cause some of those people to die before the age of 100.

Is there a cause you idiots won't hypocritically get behind?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Our obesity rate didn't just start going up because there was a magical genetic change in the US population. This is a lifestyle problem.

Interesting graph. Anyone want to chart over it when HFCS started getting introduced into "food products", and as a percentage of total net weight of the products?

 

[Brainonska511]

Interesting graph. Anyone want to chart over it when HFCS started getting introduced into "food products", and as a percentage of total net weight of the products?

There are so many things that go into it - between biology (genes that predispose people and the composition of an individual's gut microbiome), the food people are eating, the amount of exercise people get, etc. To try to blame it on only one thing seems rather preposterous.

 

[GoPackGo]

Interesting graph. Anyone want to chart over it when HFCS started getting introduced into "food products", and as a percentage of total net weight of the products?

1983/84 is when it was really moved into food products. Especially the "low fat" or "no fat" items.

HFCS isn't just "sugar" it is chemically made and is not natural.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup

Look at "Production"

 

[Rakehellion]

"Fat shaming" is a made-up term created by idiots from Tumblr.