According to 60 Minutes there are more gyms in America than ever before and more Americans are obese than ever before.
Should we outlaw gyms?
Should we outlaw gyms?
Gyms Cause Obesity
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Come on guys. This is every bit as logically sound as most of the arguments we hear about tax cuts.
Or we could outlaw obese people.
Make a law and it will fix the problem it works everywhere else we do.
Make a law and it will fix the problem it works everywhere else we do.
Correlation is not causation.
And tax cuts ABSOLUTELY bring in more tax revenue than tax hikes. If you can't handle the gym/obesity relationship, I can see why you struggle with more complex issues.
and people thought that Bloomberg was the anti-christ for trying to get rid of gigantic sugar drinks...
Too many people see the use of a gym, or exercise for that matter, as license to eat poorly. What should be banned is fast food, Monsanto, HF Corn-syrup, and about a dozen other huge food lobbies.
But i digress...
Too many people see the use of a gym, or exercise for that matter, as license to eat poorly. What should be banned is fast food, Monsanto, HF Corn-syrup, and about a dozen other huge food lobbies.
But i digress...
You cannot outwork a bad diet...
You want to get rid of fatties in the USA you could get rid of Iowa and the red states. Problem solved. "I know I look tired, but everything's fried, here in Memphis."
I had a good idea for a gym. Basically charge like four or five hundred bucks a year, then credit $1 for every day the member shows up to the gym. You'll only make a small amount on the dedicated members, but with like every gym, you would make a killing on the ones that pay and never show up.
When you attend a high school basketball game in the gym,
there can be 2,000 to 3,000 fans sitting in the stands. Most
of them should be getting some exercise on their own instead
of watching other people running up and down the court.
Bottom Line: If you are a spectator in the game of life, then
change course and become a participant.
there can be 2,000 to 3,000 fans sitting in the stands. Most
of them should be getting some exercise on their own instead
of watching other people running up and down the court.
Bottom Line: If you are a spectator in the game of life, then
change course and become a participant.
Obese people cause obesity.
They breed and then they let their children become obese and then they breed.....
They breed and then they let their children become obese and then they breed.....
Unhealthy food is generally some of the cheapest.
Our education on healthy living/eating is poor, to say the least.
We're unwilling to subsidize healthy food to the level necessary to make it work for most families.
We're going to continue to get fatter and fatter every year.
The GOP, and particularly, the idiot cons on this board, will still continue to chastise Michelle Obama for her efforts to help on this matter.
Our education on healthy living/eating is poor, to say the least.
We're unwilling to subsidize healthy food to the level necessary to make it work for most families.
We're going to continue to get fatter and fatter every year.
The GOP, and particularly, the idiot cons on this board, will still continue to chastise Michelle Obama for her efforts to help on this matter.
Um have you seen, smelled or tasted scool lunches since she enacted her healthy initiative? It is nearly indistinguishable from dog food in every sense.
I'm not in elementary school, so no.
Are you frequenting these places?
And a bunch of mouth breathers were complaining about this program well before the food ever rolled out. In fact, the first google result I could find called it "busy-body progressivism."
And the food might be better if, again, we worked to subsidize good/healthy food, no?
So again, couldn't we do something about this? Can't we do better to make good food cheaper? Or do we simply just keep rolling on the "all meals $4 or cheaper" at Steak n Shake?
But aren't you happy that someone, who is damn near the top of the government, is speaking about the affordability of good food?
Or do you just have Obama Derangement Syndrome so bad that you can't admit having her as an advocate is a good thing for this battle? Or do you simply just want kids to continue to eat hot cheetos and drink mountain dew until every single one of us has diabetes?
So because I disagree with the lunch "healthy food" initiative I have ODS? To me it doesn't matter "who" initiates it, it needs to be the best use of money, time, etc.
This is what I would like to see the US do:
Jamie Oliver Takes on School Lunches
Alarmed by the rising obesity rates and the amount of junk food being served to kids at school in his native U.K., Oliver requested and was given a meeting with then-prime minister Tony Blair back in 2005. The young chef issued a challenge to the powerful politico: Fix the dismal state of hot lunches. The School Food Trust was born, with its motto, "Eat better. Do better." Three years on, this government initiative swaps fried fare for wholesome vegetables, provides ongoing training to school kitchen staffs, and is slowly transforming how British kids eat.
Oliver sees parallels to the United States, with its epidemic of childhood obesity, the increase of type 2 diabetes being diagnosed among young adults and even children, and the vending-machine mentality of many school lunchrooms in this country. "What we eat affects everything: our mood, behavior, health, growth, even our ability to concentrate," says the chef. "A lunchtime school meal should provide a growing child with one-third their daily nutritional intake."
Change simply for the sake of change doesn't always mean better.
This is what I would like to see the US do:
Jamie Oliver Takes on School Lunches
Alarmed by the rising obesity rates and the amount of junk food being served to kids at school in his native U.K., Oliver requested and was given a meeting with then-prime minister Tony Blair back in 2005. The young chef issued a challenge to the powerful politico: Fix the dismal state of hot lunches. The School Food Trust was born, with its motto, "Eat better. Do better." Three years on, this government initiative swaps fried fare for wholesome vegetables, provides ongoing training to school kitchen staffs, and is slowly transforming how British kids eat.
Oliver sees parallels to the United States, with its epidemic of childhood obesity, the increase of type 2 diabetes being diagnosed among young adults and even children, and the vending-machine mentality of many school lunchrooms in this country. "What we eat affects everything: our mood, behavior, health, growth, even our ability to concentrate," says the chef. "A lunchtime school meal should provide a growing child with one-third their daily nutritional intake."
Change simply for the sake of change doesn't always mean better.
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