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America's Fattest Are Getting Fattest-er Faster
In the ten years to 2010, the severely obese (Americans who are 100lbs or more overweight) increased about 70%. A new study from RAND Corporation (via ScienceDaily) found that "the proportion of people at the high end of the weight scale continues to increase faster than any other group of obese people, despite increased public attention on the risks of obesity."
Up from 3.9% to 6.6% (or more than 15 million people) of our population is now morbidly obese. The prevalence of severe obesity was about 50 percent higher among women than among men, and about twice as high among blacks when compared to Hispanics or whites. Increases in obesity were also fastest in the younger cohorts - under 40.
"The proportion of people at the high end of the weight scale continues to increase faster than any other group of obese people, despite increased public attention on the risks of obesity," said Roland Sturm, lead author of the report and a senior economist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. "But for the first time in the past 20 years there is evidence the trend is slowing."
The study suggests that clinically severe obesity, instead of being a rare pathological condition among genetically vulnerable individuals, is an integral part of the population's weight distribution. As the whole population becomes heavier, the extreme category -- the severely obese -- increases the fastest.
To be classified as severely obese, a person must have a body mass index (a ratio of weight to height) of 40 or higher -- roughly 100 pounds or more overweight for an average adult man. The typical severely obese man weighs 300 pounds at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall, while the typical severely obese woman weighs 250 pounds at a height of 5 feet 4 inches.
People with a BMI of 25 to 29 are considered overweight, while a BMI of 30 or more classifies a person as being obese. For a 5-foot-10 inch male, a BMI of 30 translates into being 35 pounds too heavy.
Or, for those confused:
On the bright side, as we noted here, the faster we get fatter, the sooner we die, and the lower the deficit (via entitlements) will be. Perhaps the way out of this fiscal mess is indeed to eat ourselves to an early death? Maybe all those looking to regulate what we eat and drink may actually be doing our economy more harm than good in the long-run.
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So look at the money you'll save by sipping! And alcohol is loaded with calories.
You can pry my alcohol from my cold, dead hands.
I wonder how many EMTs have done exactly that?
Now that's fucking hilarious.
And I suppose you'd outlaw it if that were true?
Non sequitur much?
I stopped binge drinking (every day) and lost 20 pounds in a couple of months. Started exercising (skateboarding's my exercise...) daily again and lost 10 more. Used to weigh 170, now at 140. 5'11". Yeah, I'm skinny as fuck, but I'm fit.
About those pushups I was supposed to do..
Careful. Push ups can kill your ass. Better to just keep the board warmed up.
I go back and forth, but I notice that after I am eating well for a while when I eat something heavy I feel like shit.
I am getting there slowly, but ribs, barbecue and such are just good comfort foods.
I am below my old hockey playing weight, so I dont have weight issues, but when I am eating well I can feel it.
The reason why fasting works for your health is that it allows your body to catabolize all the excess stored wastes.
Juicing follows the same path, light meals which are digested fast, lots of nutrients and time to allow your body to heal.
Most stop healthy eating due to feeling like total shit while their body rids itself of toxins.
pods
It's all in my head. When I get pissed off or depressed about something I tend to give in on the healthy aspects and fall back into "who gives a shit" mode. But luckily Bernanke does another round of QE and metals go on a run and all is right in the world. If Ben ever stops QE I will look like the guy in the picture.
I allow myself one day a week to eat those "comfort foods" that I used to gorge on. That helps prevent any cravings and backsliding. I maintain a daily log of everything I eat and my daily calorie burn through exercise. When I know I'm going to eat something particularly unhealthy on said day I will usually bank a bunch if calories throughout the week.
I have been doing this for five years now and it's become such a part of my day that I hardly think twice about it.
Exact opposite here. To save money ahead of required dental work I reduced my diet from a complete set of ingredients (half of which were processed) down to macaroni and water. Lost almost 60 pounds in 2 months. When it comes down to having nothing to chew or nothing to chew with, I pick the former. The weight loss is a positive side effect.
Wow. I hope you popped some vitamins with the macaroni. Whatever works!
Vitamins would help with metabolism, that's for sure, but they cost too much. Macaroni simply happened to be something I had a lot of.
Weight can be lost pretty much though any single ingredient diet. A combination of foods is needed for proper digestion. I quit metabolizing macaroni after about 2 weeks. The remaining 1.5 months food's been going straight through. Hopefully by the time my teeth a fixed I'll be able to restore the rest of the body to proper working condition.
That's what living within one's means implies. Saving the good old fashion way, by not spending. When food's my only typical expense, I have no other corners to cut.
Kedi:
Watch out for the frozen stuff. Most of it is laced with transfats to preserve shelf life and keep it from drying out in the freezer case. Check all ingredient labels for "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil"; if you read that, toss it.
There was a commercial promoting food stamps as the access to healthy food for the poor. It must be working....
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505269_162-57505149/modern-wheat-a-perfect-c...
I agree. White flour is pure evil......
The empty calorie dumpster diet...lots of obese in Spain too
Get in my b e l l y.
say what you want, that thing looks fucking good
besides, RAND probably helped shape this dietary shift in one demonic fashion or another
Actually the American food industry with the blessing of the FDA seduces us into eating their cheap crap and laughs all the way to the bank.
the revolving door between FDA & Monsanto, et al, speeds things along. . .
The most noticable thing when I get off an airplane at a US airport on the return trip from Europe is the recognition that American's are fat as hell and still stuffing their faces at airport food courts.
I overnighted at an airport hotel and in the morning went down for coffee and some toast. As I sat there sipping coffee I watched a waitress pass by my table over and over again with plates heaping with breakfasts bigger than all the food I will eat in an entire day! Looking around I notice giant whales passing by to get a seat and order enough food for six European breakfasts on one plate. How in hell can people be so fat and still cram shit food down their throats at 7:00 AM before the day even gets started?
Europeans save the packing on for their balance sheets.
the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBP0Mbc7VFw
Jack Burton
You are jealous that Americans have such a bounty of food we can eat heaping helpings many times a day?
The problems, as you describe it, is Europeans have to pay out the ass for food.
I watch enough foriegn tv and film to understand there are large amounts of fat people in every society.
Better than that there are three Somatypes
The body of the extreme endomorph is round and soft. The physique presents the illusion that much of the mass has been concentrated in the abdominal area. This may or may not be true. The arms and legs of the extreme endomorph are short in length and taper. This may give the appearance of stockiness. The hands and feet of the endomorph are comparatively small, and the upper arms and thighs are often more developed than the lower parts of the arms or legs. The body has a high waist.[2]
So science says there are fat people everywhere but you seem to be ignoring them.
u fat
American will soon be "paying out the ass"for food just like the Europeans.Now that's going to be a dandy for fatsos with giant gullits.
They are either diabetic or pre diabetic Jack. If they don't eat, their blood sugar goes low and they feel sick until they load up.
Its a classic downward spiral...
Bad mouse, bad, bad mouse...
I used to feel guilty about wasting food that not only I had paid for, but it just didn't seem right, when there are people without enough. not anymore. sometimes the portions are just ridiculous, I would rather walk away from half a plate of food, than carry it on top of what was already enough.
This is why the 1% think of us as zombies...
Over fed, malnourished morons that are kept bare,y alive thanks to the sodium rich diets that preserve their bodies while the rotten mad cow infused meat turns our brains to jelly...
Long Alzheimer's bitchez.... They want you to forget everything lol
Perfectly stated:
"Over fed, malnourished..."
That's the reason I DRINK......to forget.
Hmmmmm what other fallen empire had big fat leviathans lumbering around eating like gigantic pigs while the rest of the world starved? How did that work out for them?
They had some real couch potatoes during the Ottoman Empire.
I was referring to the Roman Empire and their vomitoriums, but that will work too.
Most people won't get that one. Maybe a couple of folks in Davenport, puffing on a Chesterfield.
Oh. I thought the article was about fat with money getting fatter faster. Guess if you can't get rich, be real fat, fat cat.
It's all that GMO shit.
That's breakfast in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTLqPFy_pQ4
Once the foreclosures are finished and people are paying rent again, with less money to spend on increasingly more expensive food, they will lose a lot of weight.
I have two theories on this, and I believe your's is the most likely, ie all these fat fucks will be glad as hell they are fat fucks when TSHTF and they are starving. That extra layer of fat might just get them through that first year of little to no food, while others starve to death.
The other is, as stated in the article, we have a major boomer die-off from the myriad of obesity related diseases.
Looks like a razors edge...
Bullish! Genius stimulation plan. Fatter Americans will have to eat even more to quench their gigantic apatite. Therefor McD's will hire more people to feed fatter people. Also more healthcare workers will need to be hired to manage the heart attack outbreaks. I have a feeling Krugman is behind the fatty epidemic.
Overeating for adults and blackout drinking for teens. Pass the bacon!
Have both! http://www.bakonvodka.com/
'American' blobbing-up nature is eternal.
Make me laugh!
Signed: AnMonotonous
ROR!!!
Food stamps can only be cashed at McDonalds. Obamacare...Dialysis available to people under 65 and within 20% of normal weight.
Entitlement problem solved and people die happy with full stomach...win win
But these lumbering adipose transportation and inflation systems will be useless in the FEMA camps.
Nonsense. They can be rendered for biodiesel.
Ahah!!!...so there is a centrally planned method to their madness!
I'll eat anything I damn well please, signed; Creosote.
A new study from RAND Corporation (via ScienceDaily) found that "the proportion of people at the high end of the weight scale continues to increase faster than any other group of obese people,...
This kind of fatness disparity shows just how broken the system is.
The USA has almost certainly the widest fatness inequality gap in the developed world. Drilling down below the waistband shows that the ass fat and belly fat gaps are even wider top to bottom.
This disgrace can only be ameliorated so much by food stamps and free lunches. Leveling the table for all can't be just about taxing the fatter-est people of this country. We can't let the radical Right dictate who gets to be fat and who doesn't. If we let that happen they'll want to prevent the rollout of president Obama's new tongue-opperable, smart phone voting app which would simply crush democracy as we know it.
But at the same time, real, grass roots and community based efforts need to be put in place to get the under-overfed up closer to national averages.
Recently, NGO and public/private partnership charities such as Cocktails Across America and Booze Without Borders have stepped away from the bar to help erase this national shame. You can too. Because it's not just about drinking or even eating and drinking, it's about eating and drinking and voting - all (or at least most of them) the right way.
At the end of the day...especially at the end of the day- skinny people are angry people and angry people riot, cause trouble and retard the smooth functioning of central planning.
But you can’t riot in a Rascal!
Maybe you can't riot in a Rascal, but you could play some fantastic charity basketball that way.
Hey it's a way of prepping, you got your food with you for months.
problem is, you'd have a really hard time outrunning the zombies....
You people joke around about it, but for what it's worth the relentless march of fat and old people through the clinics and hospitals is one of the reasons I'm getting out of healthcare.
I don't have anything against them. But I do have a problem when it's my task to keep them alive forever, am paid a pittance for doing so, and blamed when something inevitably goes wrong.
My heath insurance premiums have gone from a yearly 10% rise till...today, I opened up the letter that stated what I will be charged in 2013...a 57% increase YoY.
You are wise to get out...I'm going to start visiting a vetrenarian and pay cash on the barrel head ;-)
My premiums are not only going up faster than the national debt, but my deductible now makes ME pay out of pocket for all our yearly expenses.
I could get hit by a truck and then even the duck will help, but I am probably not that lucky.
pods
Its incredible...my company website is blowing up with pissed off employees right now.
A couple years ago I got the "collective" shrug over 8-10% increases...this year (meaning 2013 & 50%+/-) has everyone pissed. I'm looking, my wife is in insurance so we'll see...but I'll drop it at these rates and coverages...squire nmewn stepped on in a oyster bed this year and we took him to have it looked at. An iodine soak and a bandage cost seveteen hundred bucks...my insurance only covered half for a hundred twenty bi-weekly.
Next time it will cost me twenty bucks...tops...and no paperwork and phone calls.
That's the plan to get us to a single payer system. Make it so the premiums are unsustainable. That's the cost of making sure all people are covered regardless of condition. Can you imagine going to buy homeowners insurance after the house burnt down?
Yes, that is their plan.
Leave it to goddamned US lefties to come up with a completely unworkable plan relying on United Kingdom NHS (errr, ummm) HHS values for America.
I will never submit to their values.
nmewn this is a clip from a post from testosterone pit. I am too lazy to look for the full link but it should not be to hard to find. Worth checking out.
Many companies offer options, where the employee portion for family coverage may drop from, say, $1,200 per month for a classic plan to $600 per month for a high-deductible plan with a maximum out of pocket of $4,000. People do the math. They’d save $600 per month, or $7,200 per year. Any expenses would be capped at $4,000. Savings: $3,200. Plus any out-of-pocket expenses they would have to pay under the traditional plan. These plans qualify for Health Savings Accounts—and contributions to them are deductible from federal income taxes (but not from California income taxes!!!). For healthy people, a high-deductible plan with an HSA account is financial nirvana. For people with chronic illnesses that are expensive to treat, such a plan may be less advantageous, but may still be a good deal (check your numbers carefully!). It’s a tough plan for those who don’t have the discipline to put aside the monthly savings so that they can pay their big deductible down the road. But it’s a fiasco for those who can barely pay their premiums and have nothing left to put aside—a growing part of the population [read.... The Pauperization of America].Imminently unsustainable.
Obamacare implodes right out of the gate....Doctors will take non gmo stuffs for their services like the old days.
Well, then, thank Heaven for Obamacare. Certainly it will stop the madness and save us all from ever getting sick or paying another dime for healthcare. Thank you Obama.
The very fat get fatter, faster, just as the very rich get richer, faster.
Since only 6% of the average American's income goes toward food, is it any wonder that they over-eat? Besides, they have all those worrisome problems -- like football pools, Dancing With the Stars, Swiffer Sweeper refills to buy, and asking my doctor about the latest drug I saw on TV, when Apple will make the latest phone obsolete, leaving appropriate comments on ALL the "friends" Facebook pages. Oh, so many vexing things that make Americans stuff themselves to feel better. It is SO hard living in this country.
Malthus was right; something's got to come along to knock a bunch of us off...
That something just may be a lot of crop failures. That would mean mass starvation and the only survivors would be the people who are currently grossly obese. Sad thought.
That will happen, indeed. Drought, floods, temperatures, virus, bacteria out of control, mutant disease. . . It WILL happen. It is a matter of when and in what form(s).
So sayeth Mr. Malthus.
don't lose the fat race !
fat could be an autumn Olympic event.
some day....
4 words: high fructose corn syrup
Corn lobby & corn subsidies.
ON the bright side at least Americans are not starving. Think about it!
I blame fat people. For everything.
Ever see that TV show with the people so fat they can't even be moved without removing the exterior wall and using a crane? You can blame the fat people, but we also have to blame the DUMB SHITS who are bringing them the food. Sometimes I think the enablers are more guilty.
Maybe the enablers have a plan for the porkers when they're just fat enough...
I'll admit to having never considered your alternative motive.
Check THIS shit out: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445965/
Or don't. It's bad for appetites. You definitely won't want popcorn while you're watching it.
Debt = Fat
What is our Fat to GDP ratio at now Tyler?
That picture's a lot better when the guy is wearing the helmet.
For safety.
I truly feel sorry for ANY toilet that must bear that guy's ass.
pods
Evolution will eventually get our arms to 5 feet long so that we will be able to wipe our own ass.
Those without long arms will smell so bad, that no one will reproduce with them, thus removing the short armed, shit asses
gene from the gene pool
QED...
Hulk said:
Ah, ah, good theorizing for a US of A 'american' citizenism citizen. However, the concrusion is disproven by the brobbing up reproductive rate of Chinese citizenism citizens. AnAnonymousitizenistic time saving technique of insanitation means time not wasted wiping ass, higher productivity, much the craftiness of economy boosting.
pods said:
Ah, ah, Chinese citizenism starting to rook more sensibre now to US 'american' citizens.
They park on the edge of the tub and let it go. Toilet is for to. The use a shower hose to " clean up"
Highest rates of fatties are in black state, Mississippi, also "poorests", high 'Well"fare( not)
Personal favorite economist, James M Buchanan, Public Choice Theory. Its about the incentives. Poverty pimps, workers, agencies depend upon the existence and growth of the poor.
Its not just what they eat....its what they do...or don´t do..exercise....none of that....its uncool...I think many school districts do not even have Phys Ed anymore....and messaging on your phone does not burn calories...kids today can´t run a block...they would hire a cab to walk that far...
Don't kids today chuck snowballs at cars anymore? We used to get great exercise in the winter time running for our lives.
pods
For the record if there was indeed a snowball that hit said car it must have fallen off a telephone wire. And I wasn't running away I had to go to the bathroom.
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That brings back fond memories. I remember two perfect spots for such activities. One was a boulevard where it began a slow curved descent just past some woods. There was about a five foot bank next to the road which provided camoflage, especially at night. The nearest place for a car to pull over or turn around was about 300 yards away, so we rarely had to run from anyone.
The other place was a shoe repair shop on a fairly busy street. It had a flat roof that was easy to climb onto since the parking lot in back was higher than street level. It was great fun after school, because the cars were sitting ducks and the drivers would always limit their visual scans for perpetrators to ground level.
One day a friend and I, both 5th graders, were walking to school. I chucked a snowball behind my back, trying to be cool, and hit the town's nicest Corvette smack dab in the driver's side windshield. Couldn't have placed it any better. Vette stops, of course, but two 5th graders can get to school pretty fast under that scenario. We were scared to death but laughed most of the way.
Cop swat team in MRAP would show up. Over head air support.
Can the "morbidly obese" ever enjoy sex again?
I see potential Biofuel. Liposuction FTW!
All that fat has got to be good for something ...
I know! We can make SOAP!
Ummmmmm....
Paper Street Soap Company!
Bitchez.
"All that fat has got to be good for something "...
That actually happened in England not long ago.
The Liposuction Dr. was caught bringing home the fat for the day and making bio-fuel for his Benz.
So what's the problem? Seems like sensible recycling to me.
Let me guess the government answer to this epidemic....
Government provided liposuction for everyone funded with magic and pots of gold?
Oh there's the beef.
The Mc EBT
On a side note, I swear I walked past that guy last week in the champagne room at Mons
Big Pharma would lose too much money if everyone was healthy. TPTB like sickcare....it's good business. Hence, eat away and get huge...sickcare will have 10 different pills awaiting to make you "feel" better.
Morbid as in Larry Summers gross
6% of Americans incomes go to food budget???? I would love to see some real figures. I trained as and executive chef in late 70's under a European Master Chef from Holland. He said he too was shocked when he first worked in America at our portion sizes of meats especially and even fish. He said we were pigs. He had worked in the East, Middle East and Indonesia by that time in addition to Europe. Having said all that, I had a couple hand picked NY strips on the grill last week that were heaven.
Doomsday prepping via wasteline.
You're the one for me, fatty
You're the one I really, really love
And I will stay
Promise you'll say
If I'm in your way
You're the one for me, fatty
You're the one I really, really love
And I will stay
Promise you'll say
If I'm ever in your ...
A-hey
All over battersea
Some hope; and some despair
All over battersea
Some hope; and some despair
Oh ...
whoa, is that you Roger??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battersea_Power_Station_pig_2.jpg
There are more obese people in the world than starving. Chew on that.
Is that by weight ???
Estimates 1.3 bil overweight, 800 mil underweight
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=8DFF8662-E7F2-99DF-38E67664ABFF1D05
We've all heard the lament, "your xyz project needn't solve world hunger". I'm going to start saying "your xyz project needn't solve world obesity".
I know this is a difficult concept to fully grasp, but you need to get to where you can wrap your mind around the idea of starving people who happen to be obese, before you can understand the complexity of the problem we are dealing with here. I first started getting clued in when I saw one of those news stories about a massively morbidly obese person (over 1000 pounds) who was extracted from their home and taken to the hospital. One of the first things they ended up treating this person for was malnutrition!
America is the home of people who consume thousands and thousands of empty calories daily, while managing to ingest only a small fraction of the actual nutrients their body needs. The resulting malnutrition creates cravings, the cravings drive overeating, and the end result is a lot of very fat, very unhealthy and unhappy people. The solution is better nutrition.
So when you think of "starving people" in the world, consider the possibility that there are two very different kinds of starving people. One group who is both nutrition and calorie deficient, and the other group who has a surplus of calories, but still lack essential nutrition. Both groups are far from anything resembling a healthy, happy ideal of the human condition.
thank you for a seriously smart post. . . there are quite often "fatty" hate threads here for entertainment only, and it's rare to see anyone post something sobering, and true.
mocking "fat" people has kept comedians in business forever, but in truth, it's a very sad state amrka has come to.
That burger looks awesome. Wish I had that for dinner. And 2 litres of Pepsi to wash it down. Maybe an icecream for dessert. No fricking after dinner mint though.
But it's wafer thin.....
better get me a bucket
here.
http://ihasabucket.com/
hahahaha
but that would be a diet pepsi, right?
aspartame (124 mg/355 ml, contains phenylalanine)
Rumsfeld sends his regards.
I know all you rich people are getting the good food. You have grass fed beef and we get factory cow with a side order of e-coli.
That's probably a pink-slime burger....
Bottomline is we should be taxing all fast food at least .25c per item and use it as a subsidy for health insurance reform. The reason health care costs are so high is because we are inundated with terrible fast food products and the ease at which they enter into our lives. Fast food chains would be the first culprits on my high fat tax list. Dollar menu would now be $1.25 menu
Carbs
I'm reading John Allison The Financial Crisis and the Free Market which is very interesting (behind the scenes view of banking, BB&T). He has a point on people getting very fat and unhealthy - which I thought was unique, and insightful. I don't want to botch it, without going back to re-read it. I recommend it for all of us ZH heads.
I'll gladly pay you next tuesday for a (5 pound) hamburger today.
Life expectency for the least educated whites has been shrunk
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/life-expectancy-for-less-educated-w...
He should have come out with the truth and said 47% are morons.
Then the other 53% would vote him in and we could do something about it.
A suggestion for those on this thread who are interested in techniques for eating in more healthy ways. It's called partitioning. Eat the protein part of the meal first. Don't drink anything - let your stomach acids do their thing in breaking down the protein so that the enzymes in the upper gut can digest it. Then wait 30 minutes and eat the rest of your meal - the veggies, carbs, etc. Try it - you will very likely be amazed at how much better you feel.
Unfortunately this means protein only for the first part of your meal - no burger with buns and fries, at least not at the same time. And for those of you who suspect that wheat may be a problem for you - it probably is. And so are most other grains. If you can stand it, go a month without any wheat or grains in your diet. Then go have a burger with a bun and fries and notice how sick you feel. Then make your choices.
I think I'd rather take up needlepoint instead. About as much fun, takes as much effort, and I can still eat what I want.
It's not as hard as you might think. A few days staying away from white food (sugars, processed foods, etc.) and you do feel different, less addicted to "food". Then when you do eat a starchy, sugary concoction you do feel sick, it's all quite obvious and yes you can try that at home if you actually have any healthy food available (doubtful).
I ate like that as a kid (protein first) and was skinny as heck! Back then I had to be browbeaten into eating my veggies. You may have something there.
I was wondering I haven't heard if Steve Wozniak exploded yet. And poor Sam Kennison he must of went out like a tomato into brick wall when he crashed. Everytime one of those fat fuckers get close to me their health risks increase. My sister started complaining about having to get out of her chair once she was sitting down I'd tell her, "why don't you roll over and close the door." As Rodney Dangerfield would say, "she was so fat her bathtub had stretch marks. Ya a policeman saw her on a corner and told her to break it up." Her high heals used to get stuck in the concrete. He saw her on a TV show one day. When she sat down his bookshelf shook.
Food is another item that shouldn't be allowed to be purchased with EBT. I was in the store the other day trying to get past one of these monstrosities. You know the kind I'm tallking about. 'weighs 400 pounds at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall....
When I see an obese person drinking an large sized coke (non-diet 310 cal ) it's understandable why their so large.
Add the Fries ( 500 cal) and a couple of Big Macs (540 x2 =1080 cals) and it's almost all the day's calories.
lulz
More mystery FDA/EPA/FHA/TSA ingredients in "DIET" products should solve the problem, once the government is done "solving" the current economic "challenges". Just thank GOD we don't have to figure this stuff out for ourselves.
10 years ago my step-father hit 400, he had an operation for a lapband (belt around the stomach)
2 years ago he was 380, he had an operation for a gastric bypass.
Last year he had both knees replaced with titainium.
This year he had quadruple bypass surgery.
he is now 280, but has cost his insurance company well over a million dollars in the last 10 years.
Being fat is costly now(food)
and costly in the future(knees, and bypass)
Stop it you fat fucks. we can't afford it.
Sounds like Dad's helping the economy in a big way. The star growth industry in the US is medical care, and he obviously is giving it a big shot in the arm.
I thought we were all looking for ways to increase economic activity in America. I say finish those fries and order a large shake. Our doctors, insurance companies, nurses, Mercedes dealers, pharmacists, drug companies, hospitals, ambulance crews and undertakers are depending on it.
"[He] has cost his insurance company well over a million dollars in the last 10 years." Well, not really. He has cost those who pay premiums to his insurance company well over a million dollars the last 10 years.
My mother has lap band as well....
STICK IT TO THE INSURANCE COMPANIES....THEY FUCK US IN THE DRIVE THRU....
(but youre right....)
Perfect example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fyLiYipk1k
I agree totally. This dude has no chance because he made one important mistake, he left the dill pickle on top
Given that photo, the author has to be a racist. Right? I mean, he may as well have said the guy is from Chicago.
Unfortunately, there will be hundreds of thousands, maybe millions in gubmint-paid medical bills, meds, amputations, wheelchairs, disability checks, etc., to each one alive and voting Democrat along the way until biophysics takes its course and the reckoning comes.
Mmmmm burger.........
Buh da bah bah baah, I'm lovin' it!
By age 3 the human body is done making fat cells....THEN IT'S EBB AND FLOW UNTIL YOU DIE...
CELLS GET BIGGER, YOU GET "FATTER"....THE CELLS GROW AND GROW...NO NEW ONES ARE MADE.
ONCE THE CELLS GET SO BIG, YOU NEED SO MUCH INSULIN TO MAKE THE MAGIC WORK THUS TYPE 2 D....