America no longer has a monopoly on obesity, we are rapidly catching up in terms of the % of the population who wobble through life with a false smile on their faces.
Surely shopkeepers and supermarkets should refuse to sell sweets and snacks to any under 18s who look overweight, after all they do similar with alcohol and cigarettes, and obesity is more dangerous than both of those.
Well it makes perfect sense to me. 
Obesity is becoming more widespread.
That's a definition, not a statement.
Quote: blackdahlia1 @ July 26 2009, 8:25 AM BSTSurely shopkeepers and supermarkets should refuse to sell sweets and snacks to any under 18s who look overweight,
Well it makes perfect sense to me
We could put bells round their necks and then hunt them with guns and motorcycles, like in that Jean Claude Van Damme movie.
Quote: blackdahlia1 @ July 26 2009, 8:25 AM BSTAmerica no longer has a monopoly on obesity,we are rapidly catching up in terms of the % of the population who wobble through life with a false smile on their faces.
Surely shopkeepers and supermarkets should refuse to sell sweets and snacks to any under 18s who look overweight,after all they do similar with alcohol and cigarettes and obesity is more dangerous than both of those.
I'm a fat American and the last few times I've been to Europe I've noticed that there were an awful lot of fat Germans, Brits, Italians, etc. I doubt sweets have much to do with it, however. People are eating more than they used to. People used to eat 3 meals a day and it was whatever their mother/wife cooked or packed for them. Now we tack on an extra snack or fast food item in addition to our meals and it all adds up. Even one pound per year (a mere ten calories per day) turns into obesity after a couple decades.
Most of all, our lives have changed. Many of us do nothing but sit in front of a computer all day. There aren't many factory jobs or positions which require strenuous labor. Then we go home and lounge around instead of getting any exercise.
I find it ironic that our poor tend to be among the fattest citizens. Poverty used to go hand-in-hand with hunger, but that's no longer true in much of the world.
Quote: Geoff Mutton @ July 26 2009, 12:46 PM BSTObesity is becoming more widespread.
That's a definition, not a statement.
Likewise Australia. When I returned to Oz a couple of years ago after an absence of 14 years, I was struck by the number of overweight people, especially school kids. More rubbish for sale in larger packets in supermarkets, more drive-through fast-food places on the streets/highways, and fewer people smoking cigarettes.
I think I caught fat. I've gained 20 pounds in 4 months.
Quote: Curt @ July 26 2009, 2:32 PM BSTI think I caught fat. I've gained 20 pounds in 4 months.
Getting married will do that to a person. My friend gained 50 pounds in a year after getting hitched to a Mexican woman who is a great cook. Before they were married his refrigerator contained nothing but water and beer.
And the water was only to splash on his face, right?
I gained some weight while undergoing chemo, but it was because of my thyroid going out of whack. My parents are each about 25 pounds heavier than they were last year. They eat out practically every night and get no exercise. It's always amazing to me just how overweight our poor people are. Many of our poor get food stamp assistance and they buy junk food with it, since there is very little regulation in the system.
Quote: Geoff Mutton @ July 26 2009, 12:46 PM BSTObesity is becoming more widespread.
That's a definition, not a statement.
Eat shit and die.
That's a statement and it's quite true as well. A diet that consisted entirely of excrement (which, I imagine, is low in nutritional value) would surely lead to a smelly-breathed death.
Quote: DaButt @ July 26 2009, 2:35 PM BSTGetting married will do that to a person. My friend gained 50 pounds in a year after getting hitched to a Mexican woman who is a great cook. Before they were married his refrigerator contained nothing but water and beer.
Yea man you're right, I've gained it all since getting married.
I'm heavier than I've ever been in my life. Although the wife claims she likes it. So here is my theory, she is either lying to make me feel better...or she really does like a huskier man and she's been secretly fattening me up.
She a feeder?
I used to eat about four bars a chocolate a day and weighed between 7 and 71/2 stone. I lived on youghurt, chocolate, cheese, steaks, vodka, lager and ciggies.
Gave up smoking, ate healthier and put on weight.
Quote: Leevil @ July 26 2009, 2:46 PM BSTShe a feeder?
Sounds like she is. Curt should get out of that marriage whilst he's still mobile. 