The only thing they should be responsible for is if i find glass in my cereal... To think I have to have mommy tell me to eat my greens every day is absurd.
No, 35% of Americans are obese.What would you say if 80-90% of American adults were obese?
People like to think that humans are in absolute control of their behavior and held all responsibility as a result. I am not so sure this is true. If it were true, behavioral influence would never be able to be measured, yet we know it is and is often reliable.
I think genetics play a role.
Bringing another point to the table, I think death is in the things we eat. Food corporations know this but deliberately ensnare and addict people, because they don't care about people's health, but the allmighty dollar.
No, 35% of Americans are obese.
I have no problems with you fighting against obesity. Go for information campaigns, open more healthy alternatives that can compete.
But, you have no right to control what I want to do with my body.
Incorrect. 2/3 are overweight, but that only means more than 25 in BMI. If you are 1.70 that means you have to weigh only 72 kg. If you have some muscles, you will have more than 25 in BMI, and similarly if you have a small tummy. Obesity is the real problem, and 35% are obese, not 80-90%.No. 2/3 of all America adults are obese.
80-90% are not obese, and it's not even close. So why should I think about what I would say to something that would never happen.As a side note, it's very interesting how out of 5 times asked, no one has ever tried to answer the question you quoted.
No. 2/3 of all America adults are obese.
That may change in the future if the problem can't/won't correct itself.
As a side note, it's very interesting how out of 5 times asked, no one has ever tried to answer the question you quoted.
Is this true?
I disagree, because food corporations are notorius for deliberately enticing and addicting its client base. This thread isn't calling for any sort of regulation. It's pointing out that food corporations, the food industry, does have some culpability and responsibility in the obesity/unhealthiness epidemic. They're a part of the problem whether they want to admit it or not imo.
No. 2/3 of all America adults are obese.
That may change in the future if the problem can't/won't correct itself.
As a side note, it's very interesting how out of 5 times asked, no one has ever tried to answer the question you quoted.
That’s the finding of the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which shows that 63.1% of adults in the U.S. were either overweight or obese in 2009.
That was a small but measurable increase from 62.2% the previous year. The survey finds that 36.6% of Americans are overweight and 26.5% obese.
Yes. If we can't even take personal responsibility for what we personally choose to put into our own bodies, there is something seriously ****ing wrong with us as a species.Is this true?
Ahem.........
Although recent data suggest that rates of obesity have reached a plateau, current rates of obesity are still alarmingly high. About 34 percent of adults are currently obese, creating a whole host of expensive, chronic health problems, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
The report’s authors said a number of factors could lead to the predicted rise in obesity. About two-thirds of Americans are currently overweight and could continue to gain weight and move into the obese category.
The Danes enjoyed a diet rich in pork and dairy products. During the Allied Blockade, Professor Mikkel Hindhede was appointed Food Advisor to the Danish Government, and following his instructions, eighty percent of the pigs and one-sixth of the cattle were slaughtered to save grain. To further save grain, the distillation of spirits was banned, causing shortages of hard liquor as well as beef and pork. The Danes were forced to eat their traditional black rugbrød made from whole rye, enriched with extra wheat bran and barley meal. The bread wasn't light and fluffy; it was dark and hard, but they ate it with lots of greens, potatoes and root vegetables, oatmeal, butter, milk, a little cheese, and fruit, with little or no meat. They didn't have access to liquor at all.
During the lean years, the Danish death rate fell to the lowest ever recorded in a European country [66%-, 34% net decrease [SUP]3[/SUP]] . Hindhede comcluded, "It would seem, then, that the principal cause of death lies in food and drink. (1)&(2)
(1) Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers, pp19.
(2) Barbara Griggs, The Food Factor (NY: Viking, 1986): pp87 [This source within The Crazy Makers]
(3) Vegetarian News - Vegetarian Experiment with a Population of 3 million
Is this true?
I disagree, because food corporations are notorius for deliberately enticing and addicting its client base. This thread isn't calling for any sort of regulation. It's pointing out that food corporations, the food industry, does have some culpability and responsibility in the obesity/unhealthiness epidemic. They're a part of the problem whether they want to admit it or not imo.
I'm only against the really bad stuff, hence I am in favour of legalizing weed and not in favour of banning or limiting fast food.I could not agree more with you. It's about sales; and if its safe and attracts money: it's at the top of the list: in a fre market . . . In that way, I sort look at it like the drug market: it's popular, people like it, nobody gets hurt (by and large), so what's the problem?
I would really like to hear from conservatives on my opinion there, becasue, if they agree with the free market concept, then what's wrong with drugs or kids?
I completely agree with you.Individually, we, as consumers, are completely responsible for what we put into our mouths. The food manufacturers, however, are responsible for letting us know exactly what their products are. That is the only kind of regulation that should be used to help combat the growing weight problem in America. There needs to be honestly in what is actually in the foods that we buy. Just like in the Whizzo quality assortment
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