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death by fat ...
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we have known for years that fat is bad for us. now the latest research shows that to much fat can lead to breast cancer ...and god knows what else.
is it time we all shunned mcdonalds and the likes? i already do anyway but ...
is it time we all shunned mcdonalds and the likes? i already do anyway but ...
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Could you have made a more American comment? Surfing, skating and Macdonalds? You are making me wish I hadnt turned down a wedding invite
We humans are meant to take 2 liters a day according to government research, but would u trust the government.
figure it out
and when i do it's subway
To you maybe. To some people they are much more beautiful than skin on a stick like a lot of women I meet in my job. I have one client, she's a size 20, and although she's on the large size she has the most beautiful smile and shining eyes. She dresses to please and pleases she does. I think that's a very one sided comment to make.
Why?
Do you have no taste buds?
It doesn't matter how much exercise you do - that's still unhealthy.
The issue of diet needs to be addressed, I think healthier food should be made less expensive, but the market is all about profit, so it won't happen. It's the patterns children acquire now - and it stays with them and is passed to the next generation.
Monocrat - maybe you should change that statement to unhealthy women are the most aesthetically unpleasing? Unless you like the anorexic look.
3/4 times a week?! Elysium's right PNJ that's just not healthy, I think one Big Mac has your whole fat content for the day - it's some shocking statistic like that. You can't see the damage you're doing to your arteries, also no offence PNJ but American portion sizes are at least double what we get here. A guy from my dad's bank went to work at their Washington DC offices for a year or something and he put on masses of weight. I remember going to Planet Hollywood in London when I was about 10 and asked for a child's portion, I got a portion that would easily satisfy a British adult.
What I would do is take Common Agricultural Policy subsidies away from farmers and give it to supermarkets to make EU grown produce a lot cheaper I'd also ban adverts for those food products that are targetted at children - usually absolutely disgusting stuff full of sugars and salts and additives. Also encourage healthy eating at school - my nursery used to give us milk and chopped up fruit at break and as we went up the infant school we were taught the basics about food.
Mono - what a ridiculous statement, how fat is fat? How can you generalise thousands of women like that?
On anorexia, did anyone else see Diets From Hell on ITV on Tuesday? Urgh, I don't usually feel feint at TV programmes but when they showed these pictures of anorexic girls who were literally all skin and bones they'd got off pro-anorexia websites I felt physically sick.
Diet coke causes cancer in lab rats didja know
Anyway, we all have cancer genes in our bodies and there're a lot of things that trigger them off.
As for 'fat' people, well in our society it's seen as undesirable. Go back 200 or go to another culture and being 'fat' is seen as very desirable, a sign of affluency or good health. It leaves you to be more unhealthy however, but the model females protrayed by the media are ridiculous, far from a real life healthy woman.
To many, not just me.
In contemporary society being fat is frowned upon.
Society, schmeity
One other thought. Dudes who want really big muscles eat at Mickey D's cause the fat/whatever is in their stuff helps them bulk up when they lift.
Getting fat is a result mainly of not exercising , diet is still important , but exercise is the main thing.
Yeah but they're missing out on vital nutrients such as vitamins. And no the "cheese" and milkshakes do not count as calcium.
You see this is the problem with junk food - people think if they just exercise it's ok. It is not. The sugar rots your teeth, your cholesterol is rising and god knows what all those hidden chemicals, e-numbers are doing.
Life is not about what you look like on the outside.
Monocrat - but what are you defining as fat? Larger people in general? Or the morbidly obese?
Kevlar - I didn't see that programme, but I've seen many before. Horrible and just so saddening. Once at work this anorexic girl came in - I have never seen anyone look so ill and thin before - and everyone was looking at her. No-one knew where to look really. Her eyes looked so empty.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030723/ts_nm/health_icecream_dc_2
You know what I did? I took a pint of Haggan Daz ice cream, in the UK I guess a container meant for four people, took the ice cream out of the container and ate it...letting it drip down my arm...on a bench next to a track where adults jog to stay fit/thin. One lady jogger laughed and said you are truly evil.
Why?
If I was that jogger I would have taken that tub and whacked you round the head with it; just because you have nothing better to do with your time.
Balanced diet is the key.
EU Guess she had a better sense of humor.
Jogging seems silly to me. Running around in circles.:rolleyes:
In 12 years time you will look back and truly despair about what you used to eat (and drink, and listen to, and watch in the multiplex) when you were younger.