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Originally Posted by TheJimmy
What's sad is we live in a culture that foster's the 'ok' to overeat, consume more, produce more, be more, etc...to a level of severe unhealth
There is by no means a legit cop-out for America getting fat other than it has become our culture. Big biz is partly to blame but so are our personal choices at large (pun intended).
It's high time we get our shit in order on sooooooooooooo many levels or we'll look to an even MORE unhealthy future....on soooooooooo many levels :/
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there is a book out there called "Fast Food Nation" and it's really interesting. He has a page with two charts. One shows the rise in popularity of fast food since 1950 and the other is the rise in obesity. they look identical.
We now live in an ondemand society. Go to a store and look. People get pissed if they have to wait for 5 minutes in line at the store or at McDonald's. You can now get anything you want when you want it so it has become easy to eat bad. And bad food is big money so you actually now have to seek out more healthy foods where it used to be the other way around.
So these day's it's not hard to take in 4000 calories a day everyday and unless you have the metabolism of a cheeta you're going to put on weight.
Also we have begun switching from a labor based society to a desk based society. I know of all the friends I have only two ( my brother who works construction and another friend who is a cop and that is 90% sitting in a car or at a desk but there is some activity ) have jobs that are not sitting at a desk or in a cubical all day.
One thing people don't do when they try to lose weight is eat. They think that starving is the way to go. What I've been told is that if you are hungry and you don't eat something within about 60 minutes of becoming hungry your body will start to go into a survival mode. It can't tell that you are planning to eat in a couple hours or that you are cooking now, all it knows is it wants food and you are not giving it right now. So it will have a higher tendency to store some of that food as fat than if you eat regularly throughout the day and are not hungry.