Postby Anarchist » Tue Sep 18, 2012 11:17 pm
Alpha - That woman is morbidly obese, not obese. You only need to be 30 lbs or more of your ideal weight to be obese, it's not that far-fetched. It's a reality and like P.O. said, it's even more apparent in poorer states like Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee which are respectively the fattest states in the U.S. You have poverty, abundance of all the wrong foods & their affordability, lack of quality foods (socio-economic factors play here), and you'll have a population slowly creeping up to obesity. It costs more to buy a decent mango at any U.S. grocery store (around $1.25) than it costs to buy a cheeseburger ($1 @ the dollar menu). Families who are cash strapped will buy the cheeseburger and buy it again, and again. It's no longer a question of what is healthier, it then becomes what is affordable. When you look at it in the spectrum, it adds up. You of course have over-eaters and processed foods by their nature have more calories, fats & carbs than natural foods. All these added calories bulk up and inturn become the lbs that cause obesity.
You know? The current healthcare system refuses to acknowledge nutritional medicine, emphasis is always on pills, for everything. We were never taught the power of certain foods in healing many of these chronic illnesses, it's something the medical community knows, but shuns for proprietary reasons. But, because of exposure time and again to this very issue, it has led me to adopt different choices in terms of what I eat. I've seen what obesity can do and what poor diets in general tend to do. I encourage everyone I know to reduce their red meat in-take, instead eat more veggies, white meats, fish, organic produce if possible. Limiting processed foods to a minimum.
