[Screwston]

What does everyone think is gonna happen in the future concerning fat asses? Will more people get fat or will people start shaping up? It's crazy how so many have become cows in such a short time. It's gonna be insane if it gets even worse. Sad times when any girl who is average or skinny thinks she's fine just because everyone around her is big.

[Excelsior]

Recent reports of a stall in obesity rate increase (childhood obesity too, declines have been seen just recently), combined with potential technological healthcare/dietary advancements and a seemingly more open dialogue regarding obesity and its costs (which are extensive) have me cautiously optimistic.

My prediction: We've seen the worst of the obesity epidemic. We're at the peak right now, and have been there for a while now. In the near future (next decade or so) I expect stability or perhaps a slight decline. In the decades following, I expect to see some small, but steady declines as folks begin to get a handle on how to handle their bodies in the face of modern western diets/lifestyles and societal anti-obesity campaigns continue to gain momentum.

With the growing awareness of obesity's costs, growing willingness to actually talk about those costs, and technological improvement, I simply don't think a significant worsening is on the horizon.

[bacon]

id like to think as people watch friends, co workers, loved ones have heart attacks and lose fingers and toes through diabetes that the side effects of being fat hit home on a more personal level. so id agree with althone mcginnis that obesity levels have peaked in the US.

[Timoteo]

One of my Facebook friends, a woman who lives in LA, posted this today:

"Until this morning, I never understood how people let themselves become obese. When the alarm rang at 5:30am this morning, I was very okay with staying right where I was. Drove to the hiking trail in near darkness, got out and realized it was 40 degrees. Hiking a few miles in 40 degree weather is no joke. It was a true realization this morning how easy it is not to do anything."

The difference between her and others like her, and fatties, is she got up and put in the work, even though she may have hated every minute of it.

[durangotang]

The obesity epidemic is due to poor nutrition and lack of exercise. Cheap processed foods keep the body in a nutritionally starved state, keeping you hungry (for the unreceived nutrition), and also typically involve a high amount of sugar which is like a drug - spiking insulin, resulting in a crash, and requiring another binge. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Binge eating shit food with the associated insulin spike and blood sugar crash leaves a person in a state of mental fog and physical lethargy whereby physical activity becomes much more difficult. Weight gain and poor cardiovascular health further makes physical activity difficult. The result is a positive feedback loop. Here piggy, piggy, piggy.



Eating healthy is more expensive. Organic non-GMO vegetables for cooking and juicing, organic meats without hormones injected, raw organic milk, etc. are not cheap. It is possible to eat a diet that will allow you to lose weight without spending too many $$$, but to truly eat a healthy balanced diet costs probably 2-3x what the average American spends on food. The real kicker is the effort required to change your eating and shopping habits, including the effort to prepare your own meals from scratch and clean up time. It isn't easy to do when the entire market for food is seemingly rigged against you - including advertisements and easy access to cheap fast food. Costs could be mitigated with a vegetable garden, but once again that requires effort, changing habits, and learning a new skill.

On the exercise front, more and more Americans are working jobs in office buildings instead of outside. Most U.S. cities require driving instead of walking, and more and more leisure time is spent consuming content in front of some electronic device. How many hours per day are you staring in front of a screen - whether computer, television, tablet, or phone? Think about how often you spent in front of a screen ten years ago? Yeah, gotcha.

I'd say the prognosis is bad. Purchase some McDonald's stock. We cannot or will not maintain a balanced budget, so we will continue to expand the money supply. The economy is not genuinely recovering as stated. The silent tax of inflation will continue to eat away the purchasing power of the average American, even as they work harder under more stressful and competitive conditions in the labor market. These effects will be felt first in other countries as we export our inflation and as other central banks print money so as not to kill their exports - gotta love being the world reserve currency. Said stress and reduced purchasing power trend towards cheap comfort foods, and the positive feedback loop continues.

America is not the only country trended in this direction, much of the world is trending towards obesity. In fact, with 1.5 billion people obese and 925 million people malnourished, there are now more obese people than hungry people in the world.





Sadly, barring a total collapse of the financial system, world war 3, or some other awful calamity, I don't see this changing much. We are entering the golden age of Nigel.



Although personally I hope Athlone is right.

[beta_plus]

By 2050, the world's female obesity rate will reach 100%. In the post peak hour glass figure world, grab the fine ones while you can.

[beta_plus]

Women hate cooking for anyone but an alpha. Unfortunately, women cooking nutritious low carb high vegetable fiber and high protein meals for their children is the main line of defense against fat chicks. With the end of "structural alphas", women don't want to cook the meals to keep their daughters slender and attractive.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

It's possible that we might have peaked, simply because everyone who had any genetic potential to get fat in this kind of environment has already become so. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

[Samseau]

I think obesity will continue to climb, but at a slower rate. Young people will always be less like to be fat, but as the world grows older more people will become fat.

[TheMan]

(12-20-2012 10:30 PM)durangotang Wrote:  

The obesity epidemic is due to poor nutrition and lack of exercise. Cheap processed foods keep the body in a nutritionally starved state, keeping you hungry (for the unreceived nutrition), and also typically involve a high amount of sugar which is like a drug - spiking insulin, resulting in a crash, and requiring another binge. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Binge eating shit food with the associated insulin spike and blood sugar crash leaves a person in a state of mental fog and physical lethargy whereby physical activity becomes much more difficult. Weight gain and poor cardiovascular health further makes physical activity difficult. The result is a positive feedback loop. Here piggy, piggy, piggy.



Eating healthy is more expensive. Organic non-GMO vegetables for cooking and juicing, organic meats without hormones injected, raw organic milk, etc. are not cheap. It is possible to eat a diet that will allow you to lose weight without spending too many $$$, but to truly eat a healthy balanced diet costs probably 2-3x what the average American spends on food. The real kicker is the effort required to change your eating and shopping habits, including the effort to prepare your own meals from scratch and clean up time. It isn't easy to do when the entire market for food is seemingly rigged against you - including advertisements and easy access to cheap fast food. Costs could be mitigated with a vegetable garden, but once again that requires effort, changing habits, and learning a new skill.

On the exercise front, more and more Americans are working jobs in office buildings instead of outside. Most U.S. cities require driving instead of walking, and more and more leisure time is spent consuming content in front of some electronic device. How many hours per day are you staring in front of a screen - whether computer, television, tablet, or phone? Think about how often you spent in front of a screen ten years ago? Yeah, gotcha.

I'd say the prognosis is bad. Purchase some McDonald's stock. We cannot or will not maintain a balanced budget, so we will continue to expand the money supply. The economy is not genuinely recovering as stated. The silent tax of inflation will continue to eat away the purchasing power of the average American, even as they work harder under more stressful and competitive conditions in the labor market. These effects will be felt first in other countries as we export our inflation and as other central banks print money so as not to kill their exports - gotta love being the world reserve currency. Said stress and reduced purchasing power trend towards cheap comfort foods, and the positive feedback loop continues.

America is not the only country trended in this direction, much of the world is trending towards obesity. In fact, with 1.5 billion people obese and 925 million people malnourished, there are now more obese people than hungry people in the world.





Sadly, barring a total collapse of the financial system, world war 3, or some other awful calamity, I don't see this changing much. We are entering the golden age of Nigel.



Although personally I hope Athlone is right.

[Screwston]

This girl is 20 lol.


Serious question - how long can someone so fat live before suffering from a heart attack or some other life threatening thing??

[TheMan]

(12-22-2012 02:39 AM)houston Wrote:  

This girl is 20 lol.



Serious question - how long can someone so fat live before suffering from a heart attack or some other life threatening thing??

Huston, you kidder. That's no girl!

[Anon-A-Moose]

Can't get worse than it is. After all, it's like feminism. Any destructive arrangement has to peak. I don't see how it can get worse in practicality. But I see the generation following mine seems much thinner, at least that's my perception.

[TheMan]

(12-22-2012 05:36 AM)Anon-A-Moose Wrote:  

Can't get worse than it is. After all, it's like feminism. Any destructive arrangement has to peak. I don't see how it can get worse in practicality. But I see the generation following mine seems much thinner, at least that's my perception.

maybe its due to juxtaposition