Comments on: The United States of Obesity

By: Name

Name — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:04:07 +0000

@theGrit

You blame your obesity on your genes. So, from birth, you had a greater chance of being obese when you grew up than most people. Autism is a disease. Sickle-cell is a disease. Degenerate genetic diseases are diseases as well. You could possibly define a very slow metabolism coupled with a large build as a disease. Those are both in your genes. Soooo, obesity can be considered a disease.

And everybody is addicted to food. They feel weird when they haven’t had it for a while, they are subject to many symptoms when they don’t eat it, they feel better when they do. I’ll go ahead and call that an addiction.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:56:11 +0000

Ron, go fuck yourself, idiot

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:47:58 +0000

You don’t (presuming you still live in Britain) live in the US, and you seem to actively dislike the US. So why are you still a US citizen?

By: Jim-of-oz

Jim-of-oz — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:43:22 +0000

Those top states are also in the south – too darn hot to exercise. Historically, they’re also rural and poor leading to low education levels. And for whatever reason, the food is fried, greasy and covered in gravy.

By: michael

michael — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:17:49 +0000

Bundabar: If you’re 5′9″ and 215 lbs, you’re fat.

I’m 6′5″ and 200 lbs, fairly muscular (used to cycle competitively and still play intense team sports several times a week), with a “large frame”, and I’m starting to put on a belly these days. No matter how large your frame is, there’s no way that at 8 inches shorter and 15 pounds heavier than me, you’re not tipping the scales. That doesn’t mean you can’t run a marathon – I have a teammate who is unquestionably fat and yet he’s got endurance to put most of us to shame.

These days, people who used to be considered fat, and would still be considered fat in most parts of the world, are considered normal in the USA simply because of the high level of ambient pudge there.

By: jaybee

jaybee — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:45:52 +0000

Lard is why the Confederacy rules the numbers.

By: al

al — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:32:28 +0000

No, do not go on diet! Going on diet means that for a while you are not going to eat normally but eat in a certain way… and then go back to your old habits. All nutritionists know it doesn’t work on the long term. You shouldn’t need to go on diet if you had descent food habits in the first place. Drinking pop three times a day is insane. Eating chips every day is a nonsense. Nobody need to eat meat at every meal. Stopping doing that is not going on diet, it’s quitting a diet that makes you fat. Obese people are actually following a very specific diet that makes them obese. They should just quit that morbid diet and start eating normally.

By: Bundabar

Bundabar — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:01:49 +0000

These numbers are worthless because they’re based on BMI which doesn’t accurately show obesity. I’m a large-framed person and when I was in the Army I ran 10 miles every day. Yet at 5′9″ and 215lbs I had a BMI of 31.7 (Apparently a fat person can run 10 miles. Additionally, I also ran a marathon at this weight.)

By: coldname

coldname — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:42:57 +0000

Wellington, Abrasive assholes are more likely to be murdered! Stop driving up my life insurance premiums!

By: theGrit

theGrit — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:29:24 +0000

Charismatic Enigma: Health insurance benefits are declining because the economy is tanking, because baby boomers are aging and retiring thus increasing the strain on health care, because pharmaceuticals are overpriced (due to a drastic increase in demand, mostly because of the recent increase of pharmaceutical advertisements), because of . . . . .

I could keep listing reasons, but it’s not even remotely accurate to blame one source (obesity) for the decrease in health insurance benefits.