How the hell do 'poor' people get so fat?
Not only in this movie, but everywhere. I see it every day... huge obese women carting huge obese children to the welfare office. Getting and staying that fat has got to cost a fortune.
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Just heard on the news that an apple is more expensive than a twinkie. Is that true? Doesn't seem possible. But if that's true it would serve the argument that cheap crap is cheaper. More economical to go McDonalds that to find an asian grilled salmon with vegetables.
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Did they become fat after becoming a vegetarian?
Do you know how hard it is to have a political argument with a naked man?
Wow rogerchrane you really fancy yourself quite the expert, don't you? I see you all over this thread, spouting your infinite wisdom.
And yet ... YES, there ARE fat people who are not poor. You are right there. But the question of this thread was "how do POOR people get so fat?"
"You need to excercise, not eat properly"
No this is completly false. I sure hope you're not teaching the kids this in these schools you speak of.
The absolute cornerstone to losing weight or just keeping your weight in check is watching what you eat and how much you put on the plate. If you're eating unhealthy high calorie food but you're out there taking "power walks" or running, you will never lose weight. You can however lose weight without any serious excercise. Naturally the best thing is to do both.
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Your assumptions are simply incorrect. It goes against what the international community of doctors and researchers on obesity and/or weightloss are saying. People overestimate just how much calories we can burn during physical activity.
"Watching what you eat" isn't even synonymous to "starving" so I don't see how you could've made that connection but yes, self-starvation will in most cases ultimately lead to you putting the weight back on again plus extra amount of fat.
The human body is a smart machine and if it feels that it's undergoing a period of starvation, it will cling onto any fat it can and make up for it by producing extra fat once there is food again.
A simple but golden rule to effective weight loss is...eat (slowly) when you are hungry, when you are starting to feel full, stop. You should never feel hungry and never too full. If you then can add physical excercise to that, it's of course optimal.
not ALL poor people are fat. i'm poor by u.s.a. standards and see poor people all the time. yes, some are obese but many more are underweight and half lame due to a lifetime of not getting proper health care. as for fast food, people (mostly the young) of all social classes eat it.
"there is no more." - sitting bull
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No, not the ones I am talking about. I don't think we're talking about the same people. I'm not talking about "I graduated from this nutrional course, now go out and buy my dvd". I am talking about doctors who's only objective is to study this topic, no book or dvd deals included. There may be charlatans out there but nutrition is as much of a science as physics. I'm not sure what kind of trendy food you're referring to. I'd bet it's actually quite healthy but we can get the exact same vitamins and minerals from our food for a fraction of the price.
We can't cheat death but we certainly have the option to avoid eating ourselves into an early grave.
Um, where do you get your fruit? Because buying enough fruit to have it account for a sizable portion of the total calories you need to consume a day just to live would be very expensive.
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