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fattonibabe · 5 months
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Take a seat 😘
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butterbelly · 7 months
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2019 vs 2023
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bulking-texan · 3 months
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Ready for the gym or Dairy Queen
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fitness-not-haes · 3 months
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acuteangle08 · 2 years
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Fatter Future
By 2030 half of the united states is predicted to be obese. What about 2040? 2050? Imagine a world of hedonism and gluttony. Long gone are the days of weights in the 100s. Its expected for people to be in the ranges of 300 to 400, with some well exceeding that. Fast food corporations have perfected their own recipes to keep the public as addicted as possible. Big bulging bellies and multiple chins are the new beauty standard as mobility scooters and being forced to stay at home the majority of the time is seen as royalty. Malls are full of moving sidewalks and little stands of insanely fattening delicacy's sold by the 500 pound baker who looks like they just got done eating a dozen of their own product. I for one can’t wait for the day the entire world is obese <3
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shaftking · 5 months
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Straight up can morbidly obese people stop calling themselves “plus sized” as if they’re just curvier than the average or are kinda chubby. Girl you are 300 lbs. Almost as wide as you are tall. You are not plus sized, you are super sized. You have a legitimate problem that is not helped by underplaying it.
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vaichubs · 5 months
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thyofthee · 7 days
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Remember kids, many companies who are trying to ‘help’ with the obesity epidemic are payed off by major sugar companies; such as Nestle, Hershey, Mars, General Mills, etc; to say that lipid-fatty foods are the ones causing the epidemic.
While just like anything a heavy amount of fatty foods is not good for you, simple sugars that are pumped into the foods and drinks meant for people and especially children, are way worse for people.
The idea that a diet should contain more Carbs than proteins, dairies, and fats is what causes mass obesity especially within children, tooth decay, gum decay, strokes and chronic heart conditions.
A healthy diet is mainly protein, vegetables, fruits, with limited carbs. There’s a reason once humans started mass farming of rice, wheat, and rye we also saw all these conditions appear.
This isn’t just American consumerism, this is world wide. Even if people talk about how Europe doesn’t have as much sugar in their foods, candy and chocolate companies dominate.
And by allowing these companies to continue, we see an increase of human rights abuses (especially Nestle in Africa) and monopolization.
Nestle is trying to monopolize water, stealing it from reservoirs from Africa and selling it back to the people at extreme mark ups. They’re distilling of this water is leaving these countries with no other option than to by or drink contaminated water.
Coca-Cola is Mexico while yes does not use corn-syrup (one of the most unhealthy inventions by mankind) still holds a monopoly over entire Mexican states. They take the water for their bottling plants leaving people to have to buy Coca-Cola as a way to not die of thirst. This is why Mexico has some of the highest tooth decay rates and childhood obesity rates in the world.
And if you’re the type of person to blame this on GMO’s you don’t know what you’re talking about. All human agriculture is genetically modified that’s how we have most fruits especially citrus plants. But we have grown these plants to have an exuberant increase in sugar to the point that zoos have to stop giving things like apples and bananas to their animals because they’re getting cavities and dying of obesity related heart conditions.
The reason nobody does anything about this is because sugar companies are the biggest companies in the world. They use fake rivalries (such as Pepsi Co. Vs Coca-Cola, Hershey Vs Mars, etc) to make you buy more products and fuel them. Almost all companies are owned by these major brands.
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personal-blog243 · 5 months
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Why gyms should be free….
In America there are SYSTEMIC reasons why we have an obesity epidemic. It has to do with out food system, our healthcare system, long hours working at a desk, etc. it is not anyone’s fault if they have a weight problem.
However, I think something that would be helpful is if it was free to go to a gym instead of having to pay a fee!
Obviously the food industry and the healthcare industry are the current primary targets, but I think a movement to abolish expensive gym membership fees would also improve public health.
We need a movement to fight for free public gyms if we actually cared about people’s health instead of just fat shaming individual poor people.
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morlock-holmes · 1 year
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Have you seen Matt Yglesias's article on the obesity epidemic (slowboring.com/p/americans-have-been-gaining-weight)? I'm curious what you make of it.
The "People simply couldn't afford to get fat in the past" hypothesis also strikes me as being a bit shaky in the same way that all hypotheses are a bit shaky.
Weirdly, nobody seems to have done any deep research on obesity trends by wealth over time periods.
The problem with the narrative of "Well, as food gets easier to find we expect obesity to increase" is that you'd kind of expect obesity to correlate directly to wealth, and if poorer populations in the US were more obese then richer ones with more access to food, that would be odd, and yet the highest third income-wise has the lowest obesity rate. (Ignore the conclusion, which perplexes me)
The best guess seems to be that the wealthy are less sedentary than the middle class and poor, which raises its own odd questions.
Again, as far as I know there hasn't been any research on changes in Obesity rates among various wealth cohorts which is simply wild to me. If access to food is the primary issue, then I would expect that Obesity rates for, say, the top income quintile to be essentially stable, since that group would have the least variation in the availability of food.
Like, okay, as I said before, Coca Cola was 5 cents a bottle back in 55. So drinking 24oz of coke every day for a year would have cost you $18.25, which is not nothing but surely was well within the buying power of the top wealth quintile in the US in '55?
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hey. do you think fatphobia isn't real? do you think its made up? do you think fat people are complaining about the natural consequences of their actions?
why do you care?
no, really, why do you care so much about fat people? why do you care that they are "complaining"? why does it make you so mad? everyone complains. all the time. and, i mean, this is tumblr! nothing matter here. why do you care so much?
why do you get so angry at fat people you think are gross? why do you care so much about someone else's supposed eating habits? hygiene habits? lack of exercise routine? why does any of that matter?
are fat people actually doing anything to you? affecting your life? changing laws or bullying you? really? how? do you think that fat people are coercing skinny people into fat lifestyles? how? by existing? by complaining? by talking about problems in their life?
are you concerned that they're ruining their bodies? why do you care?
its not your body. its not your life.
unfortunately, if this post does end up getting gears turning, the people who change their mind won't say anything. the people most likely to respond are the fatphobic "anti-fat activists" who are blinded completely by their hatred of fatness and fat people. any fat person who finds this post, please be cautious of the notes. i don't know what they'll look like.
but if you have someone in your life who might benefit from these questions, go ahead and ask them. ask them to explain their bias. maybe it will make them see how pointless it is to hate fatness. safety first, however.
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butterbelly · 5 months
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How is everyonee
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9private-rant0291 · 2 months
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Best motivation to work out . Hurts but theres no lie . Shes tellin the truth and Shes got a point
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isaacsapphire · 2 years
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What do you think is "going on" w/r/t obesity discourse? (answer private or not at all, if you want.) This of course is a topic which makes me go full militarist, "I would like to not fall out on a 12 mile ruck" mentality.
The distribution of BMIs within a population is the outcome of like, literally the entire society's food system, labor, recreation, And erotic imagination/status competition, and also affects all those things.
And yes, it is absolutely downstream And upstream of military stuff too.
The big glaring thing that is ignored by most people who pontificate on the topic is that since the 1950s or so, increasingly the food corps explicitly designed new products to Not trigger satiaty and to be "cravable" which is a nice way to say "addictive".
They did this to increase demand for the food product inputs like corn and dairy, which are in oversupply because of combinations of American government policies/subsidies and improvements in farming technologies (including but not limited to the use of petrochemicals as fertilizer).
Staying the fuck away from "processed foods" is the real secret of most diets. Yes, it is possible to lose weight eating a small amount of McDonald's food, but it's hard to do that, because 2000 calories of McDonald's doesn't make you feel full, so you'll eat 5000, or 10000 over a day.
And let's talk about that "cravablity" and reward pathways a minute. Say you're standing on a street corner, feeling kinda shitty. What is the fastest, easiest, cheapest way for you to chemically, biologically make yourself feel better? You duck into a convenience store or fast food joint and get a snack for 1-10 USD and feel better. Cheaper, easier, more accessible than even booze and cigarettes, and there's no social or legal stigma against it.
The more you eat, the fatter you get and the more cells you have crying out chemically for more food. In some people this appears to create a runaway cycle. Some people have this issue more than others, but appetite and satiaty are biological, chemical things and they don't work the same on everyone.
For added bonus fun, food is super important socially and many people absolutely flip their fuck if the people around them don't eat what they think they should, be it for religious, moral, or physical reasons; the internet is littered with stories of coworkers, inlaws, and even significant others trying to force or trick people to eat stuff they don't want to.
Even innocently, food and social occasions as minor as a weekly work meeting are synonymous, so the temptation and social license/pressure to eat is almost constant for many people.
Reducing the average activity level is probably an input, but the variability of exercise is almost irrelevant in personal weight ("you can't outrun a bad diet") and the human body adapts to increased exercise very smoothly in every study on the topic I've seen.
It's definitely possible that various chemicals floating around are relevant, but it's reaching to go there first as a hypothetical mechanism before addressing the elephant in the room of Doritos and Mountain Dew.
Like, studies about "hyperpalatable" food generally use Ensure. You know, the stuff that is so unappealing that it's used as a diet?
But ultimately, it's all downstream from government policies around food production, which are hauled around by the nose by industry interests.
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fitness-not-haes · 4 months
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Health at Every Size
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vanilla-voyeur · 16 days
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The Ozempic Olympics: Hollywood is Ruining Our Health
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D'Angelo's best video yet! Finally a discussion on obesity that isn't cringey af
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