"Houston, we have a problem"

stonykill said:

Guess I'm blessed. 40, 6 feet tall, 170 lbs. Wait, not blessed, just work hard and take care of myself. Hard work will burn the calories. At one point I was 185 lbs, gave up beer, and right back down to 170

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You must have a fabulous metabolism, too.....

michiganfarmer said:

It sure is a mess. Im 80lbs of the american obesity problem.

See?

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It might make you feel better to know, if you see the wood behind you as cut firewood you look like a little tiny person

Hugs,
Marlene

MarleneS said:

It might make you feel better to know, if you see the wood behind you as cut firewood you look like a little tiny person

Hugs,
Marlene

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:rotfl:

Oh my, this made me literally laugh out loud! Thanks! Oh, and I agree.

It's really not rocket science. Take in more calories than you burn & you'll gain weight. I know my metabolism had a lot to do w/my skinniness when I was younger & is responsible for SOME of the weight now that I'm older. But I try to tell myself that God gave me a body to nourish & protect & I shouldn't be fattenning it up!!

Patty

ldc said:

RandB, In the 60's and 70's, in public schools on the East coast we all had to pass the President's Fitness Program, or we couldn't go on to the next grade. We did sit-ups, pull-ups on a chinning bar, ran around the BIG schoolyard a few times, etc. As far as I know, Everyone PASSES...it just took a few tries. We did not look forward to it, but we all complied. We also all rode bikes to school, or walked. There was very limited bussing for sending districts. Very few parents drove kids to school. Of course, we did have sidewalks! Where I live now, there aren't any! ldc

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And heaven forbid we could use property/local taxes for infrastructure much less raise taxes for infrastructure. No, but we can have an overweight village mayor allow herself to be suckered by our local eco-terrorist, aka developer, into GIVING him a grant of a little over $300K because, and I quote eco-terrorist 'there are risks with developing and it cost money'. Hmm, eco-terrorist spends just about that much money on the building permit for his house, in another city mind you. And guess what, the village doesn't have the money to fix roads or to fix/install sidewalks. There is just no ROI for money spent on children...

primroselane said:

If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese.

A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore examined 20 studies published in journals and looked at national surveys of weight and behavior for their analysis, published in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews.

“Obesity is a public health crisis. If the rate of obesity and overweight continues at this pace, by 2015, 75 percent of adults and nearly 24 percent of U.S. children and adolescents will be overweight or obese,” Dr. Youfa Wang, who led the study.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19845784/

"Oh Lord, if You can't me me skinny..."

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Don't ask me. I think some of it has to do with the hormones in meat these days too. They shoot up the animals so that they will gain weight faster, of course it is going to affect us the same way.

I read once where there is an "obesity virus" which is a very controversial subject, but I almost believe it to be true. Until I was 40 years old I never weighed more than 127 pounds in my life. Then in a matter of a few months shot up to 180 and have not been able to lose the weight no matter how hard I try. I did not eat any differently or do any less pohysical activity (in fact, I did MORE physical activity than before I got fat). I can't understand it. I am very geneticall predisposed to being heavy but I still cannot understand how you can eat the same amount of food and be MORE active and weigh 60 pounds more. BTW I did have my thyroid checked and it is working fine.

I wish I knew the solution to this problem.

donsgal

IDC,
I grew up in those same times. That's why it is shocking to see kids that absolutely fail those tests, now. They didn't seem all that hard, just required average fitness. Of course, since most schools don't offer PE anymore, many kids don't even know what a sit-up or push-up looks like. I hated running track and especially gymnastic apparatus, but they made us do it anyway. Today the parents would sue the school if they MADE their kids do those things. Of course, I also had to walk to school every day, uphill both ways!