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Weight Inflation: A Rising Tide Of Fat Lifts All Scales

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Remember when after the Fukushima explosion, in order to avoid panic Japan doubled the maximum dose of "safe" daily radiation allowed, and then raised it some more? This is kinda like that, but instead of Gamma rays you have Twinkies..




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Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:37 | Link to Comment jazze
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LOOOOOL the government is so shameless...

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:58 | Link to Comment hedgeless_horseman
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The Surgeon General of the USA resembles this trend.  We know she did not get the job just because she is black.  Did she get it because she is fat?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100004386/obamas-fat-surgeon-general-has-some-tough-questions-to-answer/

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:29 | Link to Comment flacon
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She is "Full Figured" and she's beautiful just the way she is. It doesn't matter what's on the outside, it's what's on the inside that counts.  /s

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 19:08 | Link to Comment machineh
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Empress Hillary does not appreciate your back-handed compliment.

Please report to the chemical castration center for your treatment.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 22:13 | Link to Comment Harlequin001
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Evolution dudes...

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 08:13 | Link to Comment CompassionateFascist
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Food of the Gods. And the harvest will soon begin.  

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 19:14 | Link to Comment Cathartes Aura
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"fat, black, woman"

ticks all the boxes for some.

no illustrations needed, embedded.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 21:53 | Link to Comment The trend is yo...
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my friend in the ER is seeing more and more women that are so fat, they actually come in to the ER for stomach pain which is really labor pains.  They ddn't know for 9 months they were pregnant until they are delivering.  The scary part is who is hitting that?

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 23:10 | Link to Comment Osmium
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I'm sure alchohol is involved.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 04:33 | Link to Comment Parrotile
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Not just a "problem" in America sunbeam - Australia is in much the same boat too!

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/fears-for-super-obese-mumstobe-20120514-1yn41.html and http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/obese-mums-baby-risk/story-e6freuy9-1225890473108

And, they are getting larger month on month too.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 08:15 | Link to Comment CompassionateFascist
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People of Walmart bang People of Walmart and produce more People of Walmart. 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 11:25 | Link to Comment Overfed
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He's just following the template laid out by previous African dictators. Fill all cabinet and supreme court positions with friends and cronys.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:39 | Link to Comment knukles
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So I've been a success more than once in my lifetime.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:46 | Link to Comment Insideher Trading
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Women who are 5'10'' and 112lbs will always be ideal.

...like Adrianna Lima

http://tinyurl.com/cgshn5o

I don't care too much about Gallup or it's poll based sociological pontifications.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:38 | Link to Comment knukles
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Could even lower her carbon foot print of she was legless.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 20:10 | Link to Comment ShortTheUS
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This doesn't mean you should starve yourself to look like the model in the latest Nieman Marcus commercial.

A balanced diet with some extra protein and intense weight training will lead to weight increase in the form of muscle - which is a very healthy form of weight gain.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 21:49 | Link to Comment cbxer55
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ShortTheUS

 

I have no clue why three useful idiots down arrowed you for that comment, it is spot on. It's what I do as well.

Green fer ya.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 12:40 | Link to Comment blunderdog
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   which is a very healthy form of weight gain.

Heavier people are more likely to die.  That's why medical folks started looking at the BMI metric in the first place.  Actuarial tables provided the "insight" that bigger people die sooner, all other things being equal.

It doesn't matter if you're over 200 lbs because you look like Steve Reeves or because you look like John McCain. 

You're more likely to DIE the heavier you are.

That said, there are many very fine reasons to want to carry more muscle-mass around.  "Living longer" just isn't one of them.  Skinny twiggy folks live the longest, statistically.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 20:12 | Link to Comment toomanyfakecons...
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She isn't a blow up doll... she is a blow up skeleton. Where's the beef?

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 20:15 | Link to Comment hairball48
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Adrianna Lima +100 :)

Inquiring ZH ladies. Hairball is not fat @ 6'4"/190

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 20:59 | Link to Comment lunaticfringe
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Adriana?? I dumped her when she put on a few extra ounces. I got a hottie from Ethiopia now.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:48 | Link to Comment Essential Nexus
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How am I going to get to my target weight without my 32oz Coke?!

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 23:16 | Link to Comment Tirpitz
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With high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Sugar, the bitter truth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:48 | Link to Comment apberusdisvet
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Blubber is the best contraceptive there is. No wonder the birth rate is down.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:13 | Link to Comment Quinvarius
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I think you are on to something.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:16 | Link to Comment Winston Churchill
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Theres a piece in every crease though.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:49 | Link to Comment AgShaman
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Holy sh*t!

I'm still stuck in 1991

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:50 | Link to Comment Essential Nexus
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Replace the title with "Average Ideal number of Ounces of Gold" and then we have something useful.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:50 | Link to Comment Miss Expectations
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100% correlation to Michele Obama's weight.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:05 | Link to Comment kaiserhoff
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How can anyone look at Moochelle, and claim we have not yet discovered the missing link?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 00:11 | Link to Comment squexx
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Also looking at Moochelle, you can also understand why Barry spent so much time in those gay clubs in Chicago!

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:30 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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First Plumpster..

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 08:17 | Link to Comment CompassionateFascist
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First Rumpster

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 12:58 | Link to Comment blunderdog
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What is this all about, really?  It's just hatred of black women, right?

Michelle Obama may not be an attractive person, and you may hate her for all kinds of irrational reasons, but she's not fat. 

She's just big--she's 5' 11" for fuck's sake.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:56 | Link to Comment Spastica Rex
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And yet acceptable cholesterol levels keep being lowered. WTF? It's like someone is making money.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:28 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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Fuck that and the statins they rode in on.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:58 | Link to Comment Cathartes Aura
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/slow Sunday

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:08 | Link to Comment Dr Benway
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im gonna have a cup of coffee

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 09:32 | Link to Comment El Viejo
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coffee can cause prostate problems.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:17 | Link to Comment JustPrintMoreDuh
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I think there's a potential market for excessively irradiated tungsten filled gold plated twinkies developing ... 

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:20 | Link to Comment Water Is Wet
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Either America is full of midgets, I'm a giant, or anorexia is the new style.  If I weighed the "ideal weight" i'd be a twig.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 22:27 | Link to Comment defender
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Agreed.  I know that the average height is something like 5' 10" for males, but even there, at 160# you aren't going to be playing much football, or working for any construction firms.  You should still be able to flip burgers or shuffle papers across a desk, so the american dream can continue.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 07:39 | Link to Comment JohnnyBriefcase
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Your avatar gives me serious WoW nostalgia.

 

 

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:37 | Link to Comment I am Jobe
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Crumb away from 450 pouds. Amerikan Women, stuffing their faces and asking where is my Love.

 

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 17:48 | Link to Comment Stuck on Zero
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Watch old movies from the thirties.  Everyone is skinny. 

 

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 20:48 | Link to Comment TBT or not TBT
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Back then it was well known that eating starchy foods and beverages were fattening, back before the central government go so involved in regulating and propagandizing nutrition nonsense.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 23:19 | Link to Comment Tirpitz
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Government solely regulates what the food industry lobbyists tell it to legislate. Sugar tariffs anyone, or corn subsidies?

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 19:10 | Link to Comment kevinearick
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...and you gotta levitate that fat...bringing us to the nastiest black hole ever constructed for the purpose...San Francisco...the eunuchs and goddess/witch gatekeepers aren't going to like this...que it up for one more round Johnny...let's see how this economic mobility thingy really (doesn't) works, how the economic priests got caught naked.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 19:21 | Link to Comment Getting Old Sucks
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Fukashima?  There are 4 exposed, uncontrolable meltdowns going on and no one can control it.  It is totally radiating the Pacific ocean and spreading nuclear fallout thoughout the world.  No one is talking about it!  Like tuna?  All contaminated!  Cruise the pacific?  Ships make they're own water.  Wonder why the USA isn't monitoring?  The milk you're giving your kids will kill them in 20 years from now!  Sleep sheeple and deny this shit!  Assholes!  Notice how the cancer increased after our nation did all their nuclaer testing?  Wait till you see what this does and No one says shit!  Follow http://enenews.com/ not only for what's happening in Japan but for what's happening here.  Bet most of you don't even know.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 19:31 | Link to Comment LetThemEatRand
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But a bunch of really smart people here told me earlier today that mankind is too puny to affect his environment in a meaningful way.  Besides, I don't see any radiation so it can't possibly be there.  

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 19:46 | Link to Comment Getting Old Sucks
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So you know.  Arrow up

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 01:09 | Link to Comment CrockettAlmanac.com
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But a bunch of really smart people here told me earlier today that mankind is too puny to affect his environment in a meaningful way.  Besides, I don't see any radiation so it can't possibly be there.

 

Because CO2 and radioactive fallout are just so darn similar.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 08:39 | Link to Comment LeisureSmith
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Not much love for the USSR, but one thing they got right was the response to Chernobyl. Heavy duty mobilisation and many brave men putting themselves in harms way. That thing could have been much worse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKz45ORPQQ

Skip to the 32 min mark for a terrifying flashback of what could have been. I really hope that the Japanese are trowing everything and the kitchen sink at Fukushima because the alternative is unforgiveble.

As for the obese thing, might i suggest a cross country mobility scooter race, with corporate sonsorship ala Nascar. Mc.Dondalds, KFC et al, you heard it here first.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 19:47 | Link to Comment rosethorn
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Radiation impact on Japanese children

Massive increase in thyroid problems in Japan getting no coverage

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 20:13 | Link to Comment Getting Old Sucks
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Right now we're reading about Japan's children but our's are next.  And then the rest of the planet.  Can you imagine what would happen if TPTB told the truth?  The food industry would go to shit to begin with.  Then the rest of the market.  Japan is FINISHED, period.  People don't understand what a meltdown of nuclear fuel really means.  Russia tried to contain Chernoble with encasing the plant in concrete.  It's breaking down now.  Next idea?  In Japan, they can't even do that.  You're talking about thousands of years of contamination.  No way out.  It's like unleashing a mini sun  on earth.  I'd wish all good luck but it would do no good.  Sure, call me chicken little, don't care.  Sad for my grandchildren and my children.  I've lived a good life so for myself, cest la vie.  

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 23:25 | Link to Comment Tirpitz
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We don't need radiation with the kids having to eat Monsanto's poison food, with the kids having to drink fluoridated water, with the kids pumped full of toxic high fructose corn syrup from cradle to grave.

Corporate America does it more sustainably while making a few billion bucks out of it.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 19:51 | Link to Comment rosethorn
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Larger portion sizes and the marketing blitz of restaurant chains and snack food vendors have a lot to do with this.  The whole concept if increasing sales by raising portion sizes while incrasing prices to make it seem like the customer is getting value for their money is key.

Order an entree at just about any restaurant nowadays and you get a plate with three meals' worth of calories.

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 20:01 | Link to Comment Seasmoke
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she has a great personality

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 20:44 | Link to Comment Wannabee
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1992--is that the year MCD introduced Supersize?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 13:06 | Link to Comment cbxer55
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I am 6"2: and weighed in at 164 today. Guaranteed that is probably light for my size, my BMI is 122. But I do not want to weigh anymore than I do. It is my perfect weight, IMHO, and I work hard to stay in the 160s. I weighed 145 for many years, and looked like a string bean.

What's a twinkie? I thought it was something related to the gay community. ;-)

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 22:04 | Link to Comment Downtoolong
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Stop bitching. At least we can be thanful the average American tonnage doesn't track inflation, the CPI, or worse yet, the size of the Fed's balance sheet.

 

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 22:25 | Link to Comment egoist
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Man or Woman? Or, average - period?

I'd like to see what other questions were also in that survey (meal size, exercise...).

 

Three good meals a day is two/too many - BF

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 23:29 | Link to Comment Tirpitz
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Three good meals a day is fine - but where do you get a good meal in times where the entire food supply is controlled by big business hungry for big bucks on the back of a starved population?

Sun, 12/02/2012 - 22:26 | Link to Comment Miffed Microbio...
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Wow, and to think I've said i was 15 lbs over weight when all this time I've been normal! In fact in a few years I'm going to be underweight and then anorexic. Damn, I better start hitting the buffets...

Miffed:-)

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 00:29 | Link to Comment JustACitizen
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If everyone started to eat in a healthy manner - like our parents and grandparents - there would be a whole lot of disappointed people trading stocks and whining about the "poor performance" of the global fat machine. It's a lot more fun to blame the "weaklings" - profitable too.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 01:37 | Link to Comment tongue.stan
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based on the chart, I'd say the data will be rounding off and start declining in about 2 years as people start starving during the early stages of mad max

 

problem solved

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 01:47 | Link to Comment Yen Cross
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Wall Mart is just screaming with (forward) guidance.

  Listen closely/ it's Jimmy Cramers ghost

  Who? on this Freight Train of lies is willing to take on risk?  I'm getting ready to jump in/ I'm not telling my trade.

  Some dysfunctional central bank Eg; SNB will rinse a shit load of Korean WON on me! Look at 2 year notes from central banks.

  That is the new global fiat!

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 11:00 | Link to Comment 11.11
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Here's a link that will answer some of the questions posed by previous posters.    http://www.gallup.com/poll/158921/americans-continue-adjust-ideal-weight-upward.aspx

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 14:43 | Link to Comment Jena
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It does work better with the article.  And I agree with you about the Paleo diet, overall.  I just got the husband to go back on the Paleo diet a week ago.  Already he's feeling much better and has dropped five pounds.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 11:27 | Link to Comment 11.11
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I have easily maintained my 32-inch waist for a year since I adopted a so-called "Paleo" diet.  I had a 36-inch waist for the previous 6-7 years.  Also, my energy levels have never been better, my aches and pains that I had chalked up to getting older are gone, I don't get sick as often and when I do, it's brief.  I have two kids under 4, so I'm exposed to a lot of junk.  My mood is much improved as well.  I'm not on ANY medications.  I have become a voracious reader and have much more focus.  I had a tendency to be easily distracted (ADHD?) in the past.  I have quickly lost interest in sitting on the couch consuming garbage (via my mouth OR eyes/ears). 

/s  I can't imagine why TPTB don't do more to improve our knowledge of diet and nutrition.  /s

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