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OutHouse said:
that's because eating healthy is expensive. we bought stuff to make a fruit salad last weekend and it was 30 bucks for, grapes, bananas, apples, oranges, walnuts, kiwi's, strawberries and honeydew melon. it tasted wonderful and hit the spot. but i wont be making another one anytime soon.
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That's such a bullshit excuse, and i'm tired of hearing fat people use it.

You can get enough mixed greens to feed 2 people for a salad every night for less than $10/week. Lean chicken is only a couple bucks/pound.

Sure, there are expensive fruits/veggies (like kiwi, and berries), but bananas, oranges, apples, grapes, etc..., are cheap as hell.

You can get boxes of quaker oatmeal for breakfast for cheap.

Their lazy fat asses will try to find any excuse to blame something or someone but themselves.

waaahh, i'm fat because healthy food is too expensive. *stuffs face with potato chips* waaahh, i'm fat because I have a genetic problem. *changes channel on tv and rolls over on couch*
 
Skitzer said:
Yeah, we should force them to eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly. Anyone in noncompliance should be imprisoned on bread and water. No more than 5% bodyfat or it's off to the treadmill with you! 1 full year without losing weight and it's the firing squad. By God that will work now won't it!
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Where do I sign up?
 
Kadarin said:
We (and our children) are not "fat". The problem is that American society teaches a perception of body image that discriminates against those people who through no fault of their own happen to be physically larger than others. In addition to education and sensitivity training, what is needed are new standards for what is considered to be an attractive and healthy body image.
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through no fault of the own? lol seriously? what is someone else force feeding their fat asses donuts and forcing them not to exercise? and i think your kids are fat btw
 
I hate how much obesity rates have climbed for children. Since kids are largely a product of their environment, the parents are obviously to blame. It can start at such an early age too.

I have a 1yo son, and my wife has two coworkers with kids around his age. They're already huge (I'm talking 97th percentile for weight, and they've been put on a diet and exercise plan by the pediatrician). A huge part of it is that they can't tell they're kids no, and they get fast food all the time. This results in the kids eating whatever they want whenever they want. If they do cook a healthy meal at home and the kid wants french fries, he screams until he gets french fries.

My son OTOH eats what we eat. If he doesn't like it, then he doesn't eat (which usually results in about 5 minutes of screaming and then he starts eating what's on his tray). He's also highly active and watches zero TV, and the coworkers' kids sit around and watch TV all the time. They call it "the babysitter."
 
It's a pain in this country because most people don't have enough money (or care to spend more money) on healthy food because it's expensive or they just don't care. These same people then are wealthy enough to buy oreo's and dorito's to their hearts content. The solution, therefore is to make poor people even poorer, so they only have enough money to barely purchase the necessities such as rice and beans (like most 3rd world countries). Do this and watch obesity rates slide.

Conclusion: The only way to be thin is to be mega-wealthy or ultra-poor.
 
Only fat chicks on OkCupid, you know how fucking annoying it is to only get messages from fat chicks?

They don't know how repulsive their obesity is to me. Their flubby arms, their quadruple chins, their jelly rolls, their cellulite, their morbidly inflated and chubby hands and feet.

God knows how they can properly clean themselves with so many creases, valleys and canyons on their bodies. Hell, some of them I'm sure can't wipe their own ass.

I FUCKING HATE FAT PEOPLE!
lyssword said:
What sucks is that fat guys are not an epic turn off to women, it somehow makes it seem ok for a guy to be fat..
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Ain't this the truth, I don't even....
 
They need to start creating mandatory fat camps and forcing fat people in them. I bet that the fat camps will be a lot cheaper to run than it will be finance this whole new health care system where the tons of fat asses will cause the cost to go sky high. Too bad no one in the government will ever endorse such an idea. Fat people suck.
 
DrunkenSano said:
They need to start creating mandatory fat camps and forcing fat people in them. I bet that the fat camps will be a lot cheaper to run than it will be finance this whole new health care system where the tons of fat asses will cause the cost to go sky high. Too bad no one in the government will ever endorse such an idea. Fat people suck.
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:awe::awe::awe::awe::awe:
 
OutHouse said:
that's because eating healthy is expensive. we bought stuff to make a fruit salad last weekend and it was 30 bucks for, grapes, bananas, apples, oranges, walnuts, kiwi's, strawberries and honeydew melon. it tasted wonderful and hit the spot. but i wont be making another one anytime soon.
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fruit healthy eating fail dude.

you just made a giant ass bowl of sugar.

there is reason they keep cutting down the recommended servings of fruit per day

the walnuts are good though, great for manging LDL's

it would be helpful if all the stupid BS they spewed(doctors) about how to be healthy wasnt a)controlled by interest groups and b) generally WRONG.
 
kalrith said:
I hate how much obesity rates have climbed for children. Since kids are largely a product of their environment, the parents are obviously to blame. It can start at such an early age too.

I have a 1yo son, and my wife has two coworkers with kids around his age. They're already huge (I'm talking 97th percentile for weight, and they've been put on a diet and exercise plan by the pediatrician). A huge part of it is that they can't tell they're kids no, and they get fast food all the time. This results in the kids eating whatever they want whenever they want. If they do cook a healthy meal at home and the kid wants french fries, he screams until he gets french fries.

My son OTOH eats what we eat. If he doesn't like it, then he doesn't eat (which usually results in about 5 minutes of screaming and then he starts eating what's on his tray). He's also highly active and watches zero TV, and the coworkers' kids sit around and watch TV all the time. They call it "the babysitter."
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I was always in the 99th percentile for my age in height and weight my whole childhood, I'm still probably close to it. I was a little chubby as a kid but never obese. My daughter is in the same boat but I make sure she eats healthy, still she's mistaken as a few years older than she is. It's being up there doesn't always mean they're obese some people are just bigger. Hell I weigh about 230 but I look damn good at 230(~15% bf) but I'm not happy there I'm cutting weight. It all depends on your lifestyle, I let my kids watch tv and movies but I also make sure that while I have them we spend at least a few hours after work in the park or outside riding bikes.

The biggest issue is when parents don't care what their kids do are enable them to get fat. There is no way in hell my kids will ever tell me no, I'd smack them before they knew what happened and they know this(they're both younger than 5) But being a parent today means you have to compromise a little, I can't make them always eat as healthy as I would like to because they need to live and I understand that. I'll even have fast food a few times a month. Really people need to give up the excuses and decide they want to better their lives and the lives of their children and get in shape. Everyone doesn't need to be ripped and in the gym 5 days a week but there is absolutely no excuse for a healthy person to be more than 20lbs overweight.

That and it's WAY cheaper to eat healthy than it is to eat processed junk or fast food but it does take a little longer to prepare. Anyone that says otherwise is just going to the store and picking out the most expensive 'health food' and crying about it.
 
Alienwho said:
It's a pain in this country because most people don't have enough money (or care to spend more money) on healthy food because it's expensive or they just don't care. These same people then are wealthy enough to buy oreo's and dorito's to their hearts content. The solution, therefore is to make poor people even poorer, so they only have enough money to barely purchase the necessities such as rice and beans (like most 3rd world countries). Do this and watch obesity rates slide.

Conclusion: The only way to be thin is to be mega-wealthy or ultra-poor.
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Way to completely miss the point.

People are conditioned to pay attention to the lowest prices in all aspects of their shopping. While that's great if you're shopping for a new flatscreen TV, it's a less useful criterion for food shopping.

I already posted this 2 pages ago - junk food (such as Oreos and Doritos) is cheap because it contains corn or HFCS. Corn farming is heavily subsidised. I dislike this, but it's only part of the issue.

Healthier foods do cost more, but they are arguably not a financial burden for most people. I can go to my local market and fill a whole reusable bag full of different varieties of fruits and vegetables for $10.

As long as you buy in-season produce and buy bulk and sale priced items of healthier foods (pasta, bread, lean meat etc.), you can still keep your food budget under control.

Unfortunately, most people would rather buy a new TV or have a huge car payment and then bitch and moan about how they only have enough money left to eat Happy Meals every day.

Personal and financial responsibility FTW.
 
InflatableBuddha said:
Way to completely miss the point.



Healthier foods do cost more, but they are arguably not a financial burden for most people. I can go to my local market and fill a whole reusable bag full of different varieties of fruits and vegetables for $10.



Personal and financial responsibility FTW.
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I don't know why people always say this, I can shop for healthy food and pay less than 1/2 of what it would cost me to eat out during a week.
 
I'm sure everyone posting in this thread is easily within, if not under the reasonable weight range for your age/height/activity level. I'm sure you all exercise regularly too, every single one of you.

I love the internet
 
chalmers said:
I'm sure everyone posting in this thread is easily within, if not under the reasonable weight range for your age/height/activity level. I'm sure you all exercise regularly too, every single one of you.

I love the internet
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Wait ... I already claimed to be a fatass! I wish to be exempted from your post.
 
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