Here's how you keep fat people fat

damn you willy! just look at the shit you've stirred up!

Read some of the books about my exploits, then tell me what you think.

Bazza wrote:

This thread reminded me of an interesting article last week in The Mirror (UK daily newsaper)

THE 1950S FITTIES

Aug 5 2003

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"Obesity has soared in the past 50 years. And one of the reasons is our lifestyles involve much less physical activity. It just goes to show the importance of exercise in the battle to maintain a healthy balance." The research showed just one woman in seven is eating the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.

Sports dietician Wendy Martinson said: "I'm not surprised we are using fewer calories. Modern technology has transformed our lives and we only have to expend a fraction of the energy our mothers did...

I'd venture that the dynamics characterizing good health are as numerous and intertwined as the stars above. Certainly though some stars shine more significantly than others.

JimFiore wrote:

Bazza: Can I infer from this that the obesity rates in the UK are climbing in parallel to the rates in the USA? Are childhood obesity rates climbing as well? Anybody have data on other "highly developed" countries? I was under the impression that this was one area in which the USA was a true "leader" among nations.

Sadly, we are catching you up very quickly. It took less than a minute to find these stories from the BBC - they are all quite recent and relate to the growing problems we face.

I commend you for getting back into shape - really, it's awesome - something I have yet to do fully. However, regardless of any clinical definition of what constitutes being obese, 181 lbs is absolutely nothing unless you are 4'10". I'm 5'9" and gained 60 pounds after college...135 to 195...even at 195 when I had the same attitude as you, feeling ridiculously fat, I never thought of myself as truly obese. Maybe that's because I was still one of the thinner post-college guys (or girls) at work. Not trying to diminish your gains in fitness, just writing my opinion that 181 lbs, while too heavy to run fast, doesn't really strike me as obese.

Asterix,

I'll grant you that Trudeau's implementation of the War Measures Act could be seen as somewhat similar to the Bush' gang domestic anti-terrorist actions post-9/11 (ie NOT including the war on Iraq, or even the invasion of Taliban-held Afghanistan). I think you'll have to admit the comparisons end right there.

Can you imagine Bush doing a pirouette? Building a Charter of Rights and Freedoms (which is ironic in some resepects when you consider his younger actions with the FLQ/WMA)?

Would you describe Bush as a brilliant (although some might say misguided) visionary?

I'll grant you neither was out of shape, but Pierre's likely rolling in his grave over your implied political similarities...

Pete,

It definitely is a tenuous comparison rather limited in scope to the restrictions on society as a whole. There is also the similarity in that they do what they say. You may not agree with it, but you knew what they were going to do ("Just watch me.")

But beyond that, they are vastly different (particularly in their political realms, I made no suggestion they were similar there, rather their response to domestic terrorism was similar). I definitely would not call Bush a visionary. Just because I may agree with certain foreign policies does not imply that I agree with him on anything else. His social and religious conservatism for example really doesn't jive with me in the least.

Guess that's more than the allowable non-American political affairs quota for this board.

unabomber wrote:

Read some of the books about my exploits, then tell me what you think.

For someone so anti-technology, are you not struck by the irony of using that handle on an internet forum?

willywarner wrote:

damn you willy! just look at the shit you've stirred up!

Well, the one thing you DON'T want is to start a topic that might be of interest to a lot of people on a message board. Sorry about that brother! What was I thinking? :)

This obesity epidemic is some scary stuff. Here's a very frightening statistic I heard on PBS a while back: The current generation of USA school children is the first generation in American history that is NOT expected to live at least as long as their parents. This, mind you, is in spite of all of the medical advances of the past decades.

That's just plain sick!

>When God our creator says that homosexuality is an >abomination, then I would say that is a pretty good reason >to say it is not natural.

He didn\'t ... Leviticus did, but then again he also said that wearing a woolen/linen blend was an abomination to god along with any handicapped people, interbreeding cows and female slaves who are raped by their masters...

Also he was a big fan of animal sacrifice, and apperently god is also a big fan. Apparently it is a \"Sweet Savour\" to him...

Good stuff.

they're the worst man.

Even scarier. Because kids are oversized, they are heading into puberty earlier. Or maybe they are just mutants.

Nope, not mutants. It's the fat content of their body reaching a point that it signals them to begin the puberty process.

It is incredible that these modern conveniences that are supposed to make our lives so much freer and give us time to fulfill ourselves are instead killing us. Kind of a cosmic joke really. "To Serve Man."

So..... You're saying that McD's, Wendy's, BK, etc. are all part of a vast alien conspiracy to fatten us up? Humans are sort of a "prime rib" for some intergalactic species of foodies? Geez, I guess that makes runners the lean, stringy bits that no one wants, and which will be the last ones eaten. Hmmm, maybe this isn't such a bad idea after all.

Signed,

Emeril Lagasse

Out of costume and orbiting Pluto

Peter's Piper wrote:

If the bese evolution could do to weed out the population is to "create" fags and AIDS, then it's no damn wonder you morons think you're uncle is an Ape.

Hey, idiot. First of all, you completely misunderstand evolution. (What is this "you think YOUR uncle is an ape" crap?) Take a biology class. Second, at any given time there are going to be some people with traits that drop their likelihood of reproduction - who do you think natural selection weeds out in the first place?

Bush Fan wrote:

What no one is mentioning is that most fat people are also very dumb. They usually smell and are almost always liberal democrats.

So next time you see a fat person remember that they are a very dumb, smelly, fat liberal democrat.

Republicans are intelligent, trim individuals. Just look at President Bush, Wejo, Rojo, malmo, and Trent Lott!

I'll run with this...how about Rep. Jim Ryun (R, KS)?

I still can?t believe that the argument about being born gay is being so stupidly put down. You people act as if this homophobia is a virtue, but at last you people have made it a voodoo science.

Brains are developed in the womb according to sex. There is a Mullerian system and Wolffian system. A women?s brain can be accidentently created like women being born with penis?s and people who are transsexual and have organs from both sexes. Testosterone and estrogen are hormones that are aromatized by the brain and each has different effects. Depending on your system you have testosterone is aromatized by the brain into estradiol or not. Creating a male brain or not respectfully. ?intracranial estrogen-biosynthesis is essential to development of reproductive neural substrates and functions in mammals.?. alpha-fetoprotein prevents females from having a masculinization of their brain. By default a brain is female, if the testosterone does not get aromatized either because of a genetic defect that means they don?t have receptors or whatnot, or because the body fails to produce enough because of other reasons.

It has been shown that at least 80% of males who are homosexual do in fact have sexual dimorphic structures of that of a female.

sexual dimorphism: "Any consistent difference between males and females beyond the basic functional portions of the sex organs."

http://www.rdc.ab.ca/scottpsych/website/student/psych_375_sample_paper.rtf

Genes do in fact play a part in sexual orientation. X chromosome called Xq28 influences sexual orientation.

Wait...who changed this thread to "Here's how you keep gay people gay?"