Amurricans are piggies!

[bj229r]

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20061124-105912-6018r.htm

I noticed a BIG difference from FLA when I moved to the sticks of sw VA 11 years ago---MANY women here look like vertical footballs:rofl --was in WV last week, even larger % of em there

Many Americans obese but oblivious, survey finds
By Jennifer Harper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
November 25, 2006

 Just as the holiday party season dawns, along comes Gallup with the real skinny: Americans are in fat denial.
    A whopping 6 out of 10 Americans are overweight, but only 28 percent "seriously" are attempting to lose weight, while more than one-third try to exercise, according to a poll of U.S. health habits.
    "Part of the gap between problem and action is simply due to the failure of many overweight Americans to acknowledge they weigh more than they should," said Lydia Saad, a Gallup analyst.
    The survey had weighty findings: The average man weighs 194 pounds, the average woman 155 -- up from 180 and 142 pounds in a 1990 survey. Americans cling to the weight of their dreams, however. Men said their ideal weight was 180 pounds; for women, 138 pounds. But even the dreams are gaining on them.
    Sixteen years ago, men reported their ideal weight was 171 pounds; women, 129 pounds.
    The ladies have it over the gents, however, at least in terms of trying to slim down. The survey found 32 percent of women and 24 percent of men are "seriously" attempting to diet.
    And about that exercise: The American Heart Association recommends 30 minutes of daily aerobic activity. Gallup found that two-thirds of the respondents could not meet that advice. Twelve percent said they got 20 minutes of exercise five days a week.
    Americans are more comfortable with something called "moderate exercise" -- walking and gardening, for example. Eighty-four percent said they occasionally managed a stroll or a little raking and weeding three times a week on average.
    The survey of 1,004 adults was conducted Nov. 9-12, and had a margin of error of three percentage points.
    Meanwhile, Cornell University nutritionist Brian Wansink blames the nation's tubby state on "mindless eating," which surroundings and friends heavily influence. Americans make 250 decisions a day about food, he says.
    "We typically don't overeat because we are hungry or because the food tastes good. Instead, we overeat because of the cues around us -- family and friends, packages and plates, shapes and smells, distractions and distances, cupboards and containers," Mr. Wansink said.

[Mace2004]

Since when do footballs have a tooth?

[DREDIOCK]

There was a segment on a show on last night about weight
where som doctor said the waist size of average men and women should be

For Men 35" or less

For Women 33" or less

Now for some people its genetics as much as anything.
Some due to medical conditions
but for the majority of tubbies out there.
Its about laziness plain and simple.
Its easier just to buy larger clothing
OR simply not caring about themselves. OR the offencive scenery they present to others.

I prsonally think that obscenity laws should be rewritten so as obese people should be banned from wearing bathing suits in public.

And that any obese person caught in such attire  on a beach should be harpooned like the beached Whales they are trying to imitate and have their blubber melted down for fuel oil

[JB88]

Originally posted by Mace2004
Since when do footballs have a tooth?

[Maverick]

I had been told many years ago that there were 3 categories of women in parts of the SouthEast.

Fat
Fatter &
OH MY COD she's avalanching this way!!!!:O

[bj229r]

Originally posted by Maverick
I had been told many years ago that there were 3 categories of women in parts of the SouthEast.

Fat
Fatter &
OH MY COD she's avalanching this way!!!!:O

LMAO, you've apparently been here before

[Maverick]

Originally posted by bj229r
LMAO, you've apparently been here before

YUP and have the seismograph tapes to prove it.........

[CAF51]

you know the country has a problem when you see a little girl (3-5 years old) thats heavier than most 12 year-olds.  And then her parents give in at a fast food restruant and get her a 1/4 pounder at McDonalds.  It's just frightening, I ran from that place as fast as I could (I didn't want to catch the stupid!)

[bj229r]

I still remember doing a service call at a prison deep in backwoods GA a few years ago, these Orca-like women were eating FRIED CHICKEN for breakfast

[storch]

I seldomly eat fast foods but on one occassion that I did I was in line at a fast food outlet the rather large woman ahead of me orders a double meat what ever and a huge thing of fries with a diet soft drink.  I thought it hilariously funny, she looked at me like what?

[Blooz]

uh -huh...

What's next on the list. People that are too tall? Too short? Too rich? Too poor? Too smart? Too stupid? Too loud? Too quiet? Etc, etc....

Cripes! If they want to eat let them eat!

Too many people in this world go to sleep each night starving to death.

Now...let me get out my yardstick and see if you don't measure up in some way I don't think is right....

[eagl]

Blooz,

Maybe this will change your mind...

I'm around 30 lbs overweight.  I'm 5'10" and have fairly wide shoulders, so I figure I should weigh around 170.  I've had lower back surgery to correct a herniated disc.  The injury was caused by my job, but it was aggravated by the excess weight I carry around.  Every day I remain at my current weight, I do more damage to that part of my back and cause further injury to the disc above the one that was cut during the surgery.

Here's the kicker - the US taxpayer paid for it.  That's the whole problem, and it's not just me.  Health care costs in the US are rising in part because fat people are unhealthy people, and unhealthy people require expensive medical care.  One of the core justifications behind the new USAF fitness standards, specifically the fact that 30% of the score is a simple waist measurement, is that fat people are expensive because they suck up an enormous amount of health care resources.

Next time you pay your taxes, think about the fact that unless I keep losing weight (I lost 8 lbs last month) part of your tax dollars are going to pay for medical care I need because my weight is inappropriate for my job, resulting in injuries that might (might!) otherwise have been avoided.

You can't avoid back injuries if your job involves repeatedly pulling 9 G's, but every extra pound of body fat just adds to the chance of that injury increasing to the point of requiring medical care.

Tolerance doesn't always make sense now, does it?  Every fat American is a direct drain on YOUR wallet, because fat people are a drain on limited medical care resources.  That makes it everyone's business.

[CAF51]

So we should kill all the really fat, whale-like people, right?

[Shamus]

Well geez eagl at 200 or so you were a little tub, maybee you should have been mustered out to save the taxpayer's some costs, used to be overweight didn't get offered a contract

shamus

[eagl]

I still meet the standards, always have.

That's not quite like saying a morbidly obese man is fine if he's still breathing, but it's the same idea.