America's Weight Problem?
#16
Posted 11 July 2011 - 02:58 PM
#17
Posted 12 July 2011 - 02:15 PM
#18
Posted 12 July 2011 - 03:42 PM
Edited by PowerGauntlets, 12 July 2011 - 03:42 PM.
#19
Posted 12 July 2011 - 11:04 PM
- I try not to bring food into my room.
- I almost never drink soda.
#20
Posted 12 July 2011 - 11:30 PM
I honestly don't have much I can say about this. I kind of have the exact opposite problem: it's almost impossible for me to gain weight. Seriously, I'm sitting at just under 130 pounds right now. It's ridiculous. It doesn't even matter what I eat, from what I've found; I get basically nothing out of it anyway. And it's not from undereating or anything. Hell, my appetite is average to above average, which is why it's so damn frustrating.
Same here, exactly. I eat like a horse and I still weight like 110 pounds. And I'm 5'8.
#21
Posted 13 July 2011 - 07:44 PM
I'm 6'6" and weigh about 310. Rail-thin, I weighed about 250.
It seems like I can eat a candy bar and the next morning, there will be a candy bar-sized bulge somewhere on me. >_>
#22
Posted 13 July 2011 - 07:58 PM
(trying to produce more food from the same amount of land) so that the nutrients are diluted, causing
people to still feel hungry after they've already eaten a good amount of food, and hence, to overeat.
Sucks if it's true.
#23
Posted 13 July 2011 - 09:40 PM
#24
Posted 13 July 2011 - 09:55 PM
#25
Posted 13 July 2011 - 10:12 PM
i'm 6'0'' tall and i'm taking a guess that i'm about 350 pounds
you can tell i enjoy my food lol
right know as i type i'm eating a bowl of chips with dip lol
#26
Posted 14 July 2011 - 02:52 AM
veganism can cure/prevent a majority of health problems. you don't see many stroked-out, obese vegans with cancer and other constant crises, but a trip to your local mall will provide evidence of the lack of health inherent in another lifestyle. I suggest ignoring the lies of the dairy industry and starting a garden.
Most epic line ever! Two thumbs way up.
I've been eating with vegetarian eating habits for about two months (that was spring 2011), maybe a little more. However, I'm trying to build up some muscles/mass for the past however-much months. Now, vegetarianism (and much more so veganism) sort of supports amyotrophia, that's why I started eating meat again. I didn't get into any weight problems and I didn't even loose much weight those months, but I know that I lacked what it takes to build muscles. So out of pretty stupid, ignorant and selfish reasons, I changed my eating habits back. Though I eat much healthier nowadays.
What I'm trying to get at, is that if you really just do it, there's no problems at all with stopping to eat meat. I enjoy the taste of it, sure, but I know first person that I can live without it just well.
All you veggis out there: you have my greatest respect and support!
About the weight-thing. I used to have slightly too much on my hips when I was younger, but nowadays I probably qualify as slim. I'm still not happy with it all the way, as I could use a little more strentgh, but I'm working on it. My lifestyle isn't half as healthy as I wish it was, either. I like to blame it on my mothers food-shopping habits but that's a lazy excuse. Hm.
#27
Posted 14 July 2011 - 10:46 AM
#28
Posted 14 July 2011 - 01:11 PM
I do like the idea of a garden. My grandmother has a very nice garden that is basically her entire backyard. Sure, she has to keep the rabbits and deer away, but it's worth it when we visit in the summer. Plus, gardens are manly. And it would probably help once my metabolism starts to slow down.
Something I think is another problem is somewhat related to the whole issue of it all... people who think they are fat. I think because 33% of our nation (okay somewhere around that range) are overweight, some people might think they're in that spectrum, when in fact they might just be average weight, and that might not be good enough for them when they're next to people who are underweight. If you think about it, being either overweight or underweight, they're both problems in our nation right now. Because it shouldn't be about how good you look, if 'slim' is what's in. It should be about being healthy itself.
#29
Posted 16 July 2011 - 11:23 AM
#30
Posted 16 July 2011 - 12:38 PM
Because that's (usually) not the intention for a person to decide not to eat meat. Much more important it is (usually) that the conditions under which animals are held are terrible to say the least and the whole industry is rather cruel, as is the act of killing another feeling and thinking creature simply for the luxury (like you termed it) of eating it.
It's hard to find a moral excuse for such actions. With ratio it's a little easier, as for example my "amyotrophia-argument" is an excuse for eating meat eventhough I know of the horror those creates have to endure. As Nathaniel and trudatman rightfully state there's other sources for proteins and iron than meat. I'm clinging to the fact that meat provides lots of creatine that supports the building of muscles, which those alternatives for proteins and iron don't.
Anyways, another argument to think about seems to be the emotional side of it. I fully understand how cruel and thusly wrong the meat-industry (and the act of killing for food itself) is, but it - and this shocked me when I realized it - doesn't seriously touches me emotionally. I know that it's bad, but I don't feel bad about it. It's a bit like reading about an airplane-accident with hundrets of dead people. I know it's terrible, but it doesn't move me because I have no emotional bond with those people.
I don't know what that means for my personality, but it's just the way it is. I feel I better accepting it and acting upon it rather than denying it and still act upon it.
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