For those always posting COVID fear porn...

[TheTruthTheWholeTruth]

Black people tend to be the fattest, though.

Technically true but, in reality, everyone but Asians have a lot of work to do.

Non-Hispanic blacks (49.6%) had the highest age-adjusted prevalence of obesity, followed by Hispanics (44.8%), non-Hispanic whites (42.2%) and non-Hispanic Asians (17.4%).

 

[Joes Place]

Ok? Doesn’t change the fact that the healthier you are...the better your chances of surviving.

It also doesn't change the fact that no matter how healthy you are, you can still die from it, or end up with really really bad morbidities from it. 78% was the latest estimate; how serious those end up is still uncertain. So by allowing this to run rampant, we are truly rolling the dice that those long-term impacts will either be minor (yet prevalent) or will be rare. It is the opposite of what a risk-management strategy would dictate.

 

[Hawkfan_08]

Counting calories and treadmill...eating cleaner unprocessed food.

Counting calories can do wonders!

 

[Joes Place]

 

[Joes Place]

Counting calories and treadmill...eating cleaner unprocessed food.

This is a biggie.
WAY too many of those "convenience" foods are loaded with high-glycemic-index fast-carbs, that trigger your body to store fat.

Even keeping calories about the same, but lowering that intake to lower carb/lower sugar foods can make a big difference.

E.g. Skip the quick oats; get steel cut oats.

And cutting out those processed foods is hard, because they literally trigger your brain to crave more. Becomes a cascade for weight gain, so if you can break that chain, you can really make progress on losing pounds. No magic "diets" or fads, just a little discipline and changing lifestyle habits!

 

[Flie]

#fakenews

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

All great points.

That's the thing . . . you can't fat shame as Maher as previously suggested and expect that it's going to have an appreciable effect. Doctors can recommend losing weight and maybe some people will. . . but this problem runs far deeper than just telling people to have personal responsibility and control their diet.

Unhealthy and calorie laden meals are just too damn central to our culture. And that culture is hard to change. It's not something that is going to get fixed with fat shaming.

Besides I have a strong doubt that fat shaming would have the desired effect. As Maher said our obesity rate is 42%. Now how many people are overweight but not obese yet? These "problem people" as you see it are pretty darn close to achieving majority status here.

And lets also remember that even if you arn't obese yourself you might have friends and loved ones that are.

We should certainly keep recommending healthy diets and regular exercise. But trying to make people feel bad about being fat isn't going to convince them to lose weight. All it's going to do is depress them which is going to make them turn to more unhealthy food as a coping mechanism. Either that or they are going to turn to some other coping mechanism that could be even worse.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

It was the covid that motivated me. I am down 35 lbs since April...

Good for you. I wish I could say the same. I was having some success, but put most of my losses back on in July. Very demoralizing.

Clearly I need to stop "allowing" myself to get snack foods. Yet snack foods are one of the ways to make being shut in more tolerable.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

It also doesn't change the fact that no matter how healthy you are, you can still die from it, or end up with really really bad morbidities from it. 78% was the latest estimate; how serious those end up is still uncertain. So by allowing this to run rampant, we are truly rolling the dice that those long-term impacts will either be minor (yet prevalent) or will be rare. It is the opposite of what a risk-management strategy would dictate.

True...none of which changes the fact that if you improve your diet/lifestyle/fitness your chances improve.

Should be pushed more by public health officials.

 

[QChawks]

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