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The Rise Of The Fatty
For all the talk about QE this, HFT that, crony capitalism, cold war 2.0, hyperinflation, hyperdeflation, social inequality, Keynesian dead end, global financial meltdown, perhaps the one more tangible threats to mankind as a whole (and to the future underfunded healthcare costs) is something fatr simpler: the rise of the fatty.
Below we present a candied look via Nature of, pardon the pun, society at large, and just why is it that those cuddly, jovial fat people, which seems to be growing exponentially in recent years, present a great danger not only to themselves, but to just as exponentially growing welfare costs in a world which already is, for all intents and purposes, insolvent (unless of course someone in charge gets a Swiftian idea to let the world's obese deal with their own problems just the way Charles Darwin suggested they should).
They are everywhere.
They don't fit on the scale.
A lot of their problems can be explained by the surge in cheap, hollow calories.
But the bottom line is they are a danger: to themselves, and to those others who will be tasked to pay for their care.
Source: Nature
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While I buy that there are better foods and worse foods I do not agree that it is all the food. I was a kid in the South more decades ago than I will admit. We ate plenty of wheat, fried chicken and bacon in the green beans. We did not do sodas all the time but sweet tea and Kool Aid was everywhere. If we got extra money for mowing the lawn we went to the 7-11 and bought candy or Icee's. Yet, we were all skinny little kids.
In school everyone made fun of the kid who was fat. Why? First because kids pick on those who are different and because the truly obese kid was a rarity. I probably could have named all of them in my elementary school. You probably cannot name all of them in one class, now.
We ran around outdoors, did not have snacks 24/7 and being hungry was actually considered a good thing. We lived by "No eating between meals." There was a lot less packaged food but you can still buy reasonably healthy packaged food these days.
Bottom line is that I believe it is much more a function of the culture than any specific food.
Depending on when you grew up, it was probably actual sugar you were eating.
If someone wonders, swmnguy made a hint that fructose is not recognised by the body as a food (won't make you saturated, just let gobble more)
Sugar: The Bitter Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
I am assuming you were a kid before the 1980s. Wheat was being manipulated in the 1970s and it takes time for this to be seen in a population I was a teenager in the 1970s. No one was fat. I was the class fatty at 5'4" and 140. My ideal weight should have been 127. I was teased terribly. I drive by a high school every day. I am absolutely stunned at the obesity in these kids. 300+ boys are not rare. At that age boys should be calorie burning machines. I calculated what Mr Miffed ate at that time. 5000-7000 cals/ day including one gallon of raw jersey milk! He was a rail thin farm boy.
When I was growing up there was no HFCs, sodas were a treat and not served in Big Gulp cups and families sat down for a good dinner every night that was balanced and cooked by Mom not KFC. Going out was a treat and the portions weren't designed for elephants. Sure we ate junk but we spend most of our time outside and rarely glued to a TV.
Miffed;-)
5 foot four, 140 lbs, yum, yum !!!
Well, to be honest most of the teasing was from the boys who were a bit aghast over my blossoming. "My eyes are up here! " ;-)
Miffed ;-)
You were the reason we had to wear long sweatshirts on hot days...
Ah yes... Those were the days of the endless salutations. Thank God they had no trampolines in gym class or the school nurse would have gone on strike dealing with passed out boys hitting the pavement. What a bucket of lascivious lecherous kids we were! Funny, I thought life was so tough back then and looking at my life now with all that is going on in this country and the world, I truly miss that simpler time. At least I have a good man to keep the sheets warm as the world grows cold.
Miffed;-)
Yes indeed, it is going to take all our wits to get us through the arriving storm...
Ya, I'll never forget 1987. Barely a bump on the chest of any girl in class and this one girl, just this one, I have no idea how or why, had D cups. It was just such a giant contrast, so to speak, I don't think she even got teased about it, I think the shock of the difference at age 11 just gave the boys nothing they could even think of saying that could trump the mere existence of a D cup at age 11. That was something.
It's more than just GMO and HFC and sugar. Yes, HFC is in EVERY-FUCKING-THING, and is a contributing factor, but it is more to it than just that. For one, look at the heavy processing of food that goes on these days. You know why flour has such a long shelf life? Because they remove the germ. That gets rid of a lot of the nutrients that you would otherwise get. And flour doesn't hold a candle to some of the other processed foods these days.
Then there are the cultivars that they're growing and the soil that they're growing it in. They don't care about soil health, and use a bunch of synthetic fertilizer. You get great green growth, but the food will be lacking in nutrients. In fact, a comparison was done on vitamin and mineral of fruits and vegetables today vs 50 years ago, and it was found that many fruits and veggies actually are less nutrient dense than they were in the past. It's all the result of having to do things bigger and faster. The starch in the corn still has the carbohydrate calories, yet it likely has less protein, and quite possibly less niacin if you turn it into hominy. Broccoli has less calcium. In short, fewer vital nutrients with the same volume and calories means that you have to eat more just to ensure that you keep up with what your body needs to run.
The Idiot-in-Chief's Death Panel will not looking kindly on that vat of fat when he needs quadruple bypass surgery.
"Take the blue pill"
The way this Corporatocracy is devolving, he may end up at a (name your favorite soap manufacturer) factory...
Actually, there is another point to your post, too. Leftist-collectivists will use the "caring" mantra to take over medicine and most everything else. Once they get to the true end game which is power then all these overpriced plus-sized twits will be in some sort of fat-rehab death camp. The caring facade will be discarded and an impoverished collectivist society cannot afford all the expensive nicities these people need.
Notice that in N. Korea there is exactly one fat person.
Conclusion: women are getting fatter faster than men. 35% Western Europe are obese are similar to USA (1/3 of pop).
Good news we don't have to worry about starvation we now have to start dieting for the sake of humanity. Btw stop donating to save those starving child oversea they are now obese and will sue you in UN court for this food poison by the westerners.
Disney totally ripped that whole Wall-E movie off based on a Gary Numan song. Typical Disney post-Walt. Disney and other studios and indep directors in Hollywood are pederasts.
The song is about the last machine left on earth and his battery is failing. The song is called M.E. - so Disney even ripped the title off. The album was awesome and influenced tons of bands like NIN.
Trent Reznor's whole gig and sound was based on Numan but Reznor gives him credit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wea8ZQ0II4g
And M.E. I eat dust
We're all so run down
I'd call it my death
But I'll only fade away
And I hate to fade alone
Now there's only M.E.
We were so sure
We were so wrong
Now it's over
But there's no one left to see
And there's no one left to die
There's only M.E.
Why should I care
Why should I try
Oh no, oh no
I turned off the pain
Like I turned off you all
Now there's only M.E.
It's glandular
"Below we present a candied look..." - what a slip for an article about fatties - shitgums!
easy fix:
1. labour camps
my favorite 2. make a soap out of these fat hoarders and it will even be eco-friendly
3. stop giving me BS about genes and shit, not even their fat causing genes would survive in Auschwitz
4. we must start pointing out at these fat bastards
I got it I got it!! This is the gold smuggler everyone in India has been looking for! He's sooo fat the xray device can't see through all of him (if he even fits in the xray device...)
Bitcoin!
Where the fuck have you been hiding ?
LMAO! I was just thinking the same.
LOL
Hes just been released from the psych ward after his prior excursions though the Venerable Halls of ZH
NBah - Foney has been investigating Mt. Gox' failure...looking for all those secure shitcoin stashes that got stolen! He's only here because he thinks that guy in the picture ate his bitcoins!
Looks $490ish, recent rise from 483.
Let's just hope he keeps his clothes on this time.
Where the fuck have you been hiding ?
fonestar's PAL had p-work to do.
Looking forward to more bitcoin stuff ....
Welcome back, fonestar.
Thanks, it's a pleasure to have it.
lol...you look a lot better now that you've lost 50% ;-)
Liberty Dollar!
Duplicate
That poor land-whale hasn't seen his penis for at least 30 years.
Just thinking the same thing. What does he have to do to find his dick? That right there would make me lose weight.
Maybe he's got one of those claw-grabber thingamajigs. Most people use those to reach stuff that's way up high; he uses his to free willy from drowning in fat rolls.
There are also special tools for such people for ass wiping. It grabs the paper and extends.
There's an image I wish never made it to my brain.
So QE has spawned a weight bubble?
They also wear diapers and have someone else clean up the mess....
Shame is such an underrated and absent emotion in our world today. Ostracization needs a comeback. Not controlling your mouth whole has consequences.
These people are all about live to eat.......rather than eat to live
they need to be gone - ultimate worthless eaters !
Hello Skinny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJiyOPmsJs
"Once you've had Fat, you never go Back."
...I've heard that [or something like that] alot in the last few years.
I looked at that second chart and thought "Fat bottom girls, they make the rockin world go round...."
"That poor land-whale hasn't seen his penis for at least 30 years."
Neither has anyone else.
Is it bad that I've always wondered how they wipe their ass let alone wash it? Seriously.
Have you ever been behind one of these people in a check-out lane and inhaled? The answer to your question of how they wipe their ass is "Not very well."
its probably an "innie" now.
When men get too heavy and eat the things that get them here, the fat cells and the additives and the plastics put estrogen into his system. I am not sure if he cares to find his dick any more.
Darwin's principles at work.
I like 'em, I'm overweight but they make me look like a starving Ethiopian.
Know what a rich Ethiopian wears for a belt?
A Rolex
Speaking of, congratulations, men of central Africa, for being the only group (at least that I can tell) that managed to have LESS obesity compared to 1980.
Yup, AIDS will help you lose weight.
Man, thats cold.
Maybe they're just on a high missionary diet ;-)
Nanny Big Butt in the White House is trying to figure out how to get the 99% on the Bangladeshi diet.
Russia!
The "Carbohydrate-Industrial Complex".
Aka Monsanto, ADM, etc.
Who cares? It's a slow-motion form of suicide. If the fat fuckers want to eat themselves to death, let them.
Something to consider....
The Pharma Complex.
A lot of psych drugs' side effects are weight gain.
Take a look at the stats in US for the number of people taking the aforementioned substances.
Likely a part of it.
Fat AND medicated!
What a way to go through life.
Just shoot me.
America , America the land of the f.....freat!
The land of freedom fries!
I think the fatties are a minor worry in the grand scheme of things.
I gotta agree. There are serious issues ahead, many of which will deal with the fatty epidemic quite concisely unless they are dealt with first.
The charge on the walmart scooters won't last long in the zombie apocalypse.
"I think the fatties are a minor worry in the grand scheme of things."
Except, these people get to vote, even thought they make shitty choices, people who try and stay healthy have to pay for that shit. If you want to be a fatass and die young, go ahead, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Just don't drag me into it!!
But thats not how 'Merica works these days. Freedom should mean if I want to eat myself to death you let me do it. Not--I want to eat myself to death but I want you to keep me alive longer so I can eat even MOAR!!
ha! voting in the USA isn't a real choice but supersizing is! take control!
Actually they will be quite safe, being surrounded by ballistic gelatin...
Rule #1 in Zombieland is cardio.
Agreed, though I get nauseated whenever I see an ad for "free" Hoverounds courtesy of Medicare.
Also.. look closely at the last set of charts. Only a quarter of deaths among black women in their 80's is attributable to obesity? That's awesome! I'd be psyched if I knew I'd live into my 80's being able to eat and drink like a pig.
Of course the awesomeness goes away the second LaQueefa uses my tax dollars to buy a Hoveround and get her diabetes treated.
I think the fatties are a minor worry in the grand scheme of things.
You say that now, but wait until there is a disruption in their food supply and they start looking at you like they do a triple-decker cheeseburger.
Easy to cure this, just make food stamps redeemable only in rice and beans. No more Escalades full of free Cheezy Poofs and Snacky Kakes and powdered donut surprise.
Note the liter bottle of sugared water in the basket of his ass mover. Every porker I see rolling along has one of these within their grasp.
You build up a big thirst driving those things around.
Bet his nickname is biscuit, because he's a biscuit away from 600.
Apologies to Bears fans, old Refridgerator Perry joke.
I think Bears fans need to apologize to us for all the lousy football teams they put on the field over the years.
That's nothing, my cousin's a Bengals fan, now there's a person that deserves sympathy.
Everybody stores food for an economic collapse in different ways. They just happen to carry all their's with them. The clever bastards will probably out live us all.
If they were built like sumo wrestlers, maybe. Rolling around in a Rascal, drinking a gallon of soda a day, I don't think many will survive for too long in a collapse.
actually, carrying a few percentages of body fat is exactly what you need to do. i call it "reserves", of course one can't print these sort of reserves but they are important. all of those zero body fat douches we see in media wouldn't survive without 3000 calories a day whereas those with healthy fat to muscle ratios will be able to go along with reduced caloric input in times of stress.
How in the hell does this guy reach his penis to take a piss? Or even worse how in the heck does he wipe his ass after taking a dump?
If the days ever comes I can not reach down and touch my dick, for function or fun, just shoot my ass.
With a rag on a stick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJQEl5vcAo
With a segue like that, there's no way in hell I'm clicking on that link.
Some fat people wipe using a BBQ mop. Serious.
...you asked.
One thing to not buy used at a yard sale...
He probably has live-in paid help for those chores. A husky male nurse.
Growth - a Keynesian wet dream!
Fifty years ago when I was in school, there were only one or two kids that were obese, probably due to thyroid problems. I look at kids today and it seems over half of them are overweight. I don't need no stinkin' charts to tell me there's a huge problem out there.
Yep, I had one of them in my class and the poor guy did have a thyroid problem, but that didn't stop him being teased and hazed unmercifully back in those days.
Most everybody else back than was rail thin. Nowadays at 52 I have a trimmer waist than 90% of the teenagers running around.
I see immigrant fathers and their kids from China and Mexico - the father is from the old country and Haitian thin. The kid is terminally obese and has probably only been in the country for 5 years - something is seriously fucking wrong.
we played outside all day, usually baseball. we had no video games.
Yup. Never came home until sunset. If the game ran over we usually got instant messages via moms screaming our names, a block away. That was our roaming limit plan.
When our Black Swan comes it will be moth eaten, over weight, poorly kitted out in REI faux outdoor gear and cheap tattoos.
Kunstler, is that you?
I remember back in the 80's when girls had a nice bush and were thin, ahhh those were the days.
Double + for the nice bush comments. Those were the days.
Yep. Don't have to bic it, just some regular grooming will suffice!
ah, beach girls with nice bush and that white triangle. brings back pleasant memories
the author lost me at the word "RISE...of the fatty"
for god sakes, the guys is sitting. not rising.
disc----not a fatty.
but fattys just make for good eating if things go south. they're no threat.
MOAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude's just out looking for ribs, man. Check out the signs behind him. Its a rib-crawl! This is the result of advertising and television and McDonalds and the entire cheapeneasy culture of do-nothing, say-nothing, gimmegimmegimme fuckball stupids who watch Faux news and believe in their congressmen. All they need is TV and soda pop. And a spaceship to nowhere...
I went to a shopping center in western Florida once. No wonder the damn place is sinking.
Not when people get this big, this is more the result of being a lazy slob with no self control.
Is Michael Moore the spokesperson?
The AMA calls this a "Disease" now.
One side effect is to devalue all other diseases.
It's because of the the whoremoans.
How do you make a whoremoan?
No tip?
Put sandinthevasoline, duh.
Kick her in the shins.
The fatter you are, the less likely you are a threat. A protest consisting of fatasses on rascals would be easy pickings for riot police.
There might be some money in modding hoverrounds for riots. Rock catalpults and such. You could name them after riots, lilke The Watts, etc.
Or a trebuchet to fling the fully loaded cart.
Yeah, just throw 'em a bag of Doritos, bottle of Coke and turn the channel to ESPN. Revolt over.
I've suspected for some time now that hash oil would be far more effective at crowd control than tear gas.
A different kind of shotgun.
I'm an expert on fat-asses. I'm a paramedic in St. Louis. Now next time you're bitching about paramedic firefighters imagine how many blown backs we get from picking these fat fucks up off the ground? I've spent several of my days off unable to move because of low back strain and pain. I signed up to help people, not to pick up fat fucks all day long.
Biff
I know an EMT in St. Louis with the same stories....you have some thankless tasks
Maybe EMS vehicles should carry a small fork lift instead of a stretcher.
Portable/Collapsable A-Frame, Engine Hoist, and Come-Along should do it.
OK, a story...SO I'm fueling up at a Kangaroo in North Carolina somewhere, and a nice old F-150 pulls up to the pump across from me. Homey took three full minutes to get out of his vehicle, another minute to walk to the store (22'), and when he came out, he was slurping an ice-and-sugar concoction and holding, as if it were the greatest treasure on Earth, a large box of donuts. The time it took for him to cross back to his truck, stash his goodies and get back in was almost five full minutes. He never even bought gas. Dude would have tipped the scale past 500#.
If there's a fire, this guy is dead. If he goes into the emergency room, and there isn't a Johnson lift, he won't be able to receive medical care - or else others will be injured lifting his sorry ass. Sorry, call me liberal, but it steams my backside to see people with so little self respect that they feel they can consume that much shitfood and expect others to pick up the tab. Round 'em up and send 'em to Haiti. That'll slim 'em down.
The point of the Super Size Me experiment was to show people that this shit isn't real food and drink, it messes with our bio-chemistry and moods and results in major weight gain. Yet fast food is still a big part of so many peoples diet. Its a choice with long term consequences for everyone -the eater, the family, the medical staff, the dumb ass stuck in the air plane seat next to .......
If you flipped that guy upside down, and put his head back on top, he would have the same symmetry. Fascinating.
Suspect is white male, 50 years of age, 6' all directions
What do you expect people to do in a tyrannical utopia.
Obesity + Obamacare = financial disaster
0zer0care Death Panels solve both problems simultaneously... so everyone better get their Will in order.
There are without doubt a shamefully increased number of Two-Ton Tonys walking around, but some of these obesity statistics may be the result of shifting goalposts.
Last year, I had to take a mandatory health screening for the company I was working for at the time. At 6'2'', 202 lbs, with a 36 inch waist and a BMI of 26.5, they classified me as "overweight," which is something I never expected to be called in my life, having been used to hearing the opposite complaint - that I was too skinny. I'm not sure what they expected me to do; I already ate barely enough calories to sustain me through the highly physical labor I was performing. My physique looked damn good, if you don't mind me saying so myself: flat stomach, chisled arms, lean but robust thighs. My blood pressure was ever so slightly high at 127/80, but has always been that way. It hasn't moved up a single point since I was in my early twenties. In comparison to some of the ground sloths we have walking around out there, I don't know why I wouldn't be considered the picture of health.
But a classification of 'overweight' means that the company no longer had to give me the health incentive discount on my insurance premiums. Call me paranoid, but I can't but think factors such as these are influencing corporate and medical board decisions on what constitues healthy and unhealthy. Another reason why I loathe Obamacare with every fiber of my being.
They want you off the incentives and on drugs.
That's not even Obamacare's fault. That's your company being sold a healthcare plan by someone like Hewitt or BCBS that "cuts costs". In the end, it's always something extremely arbitrary. BMI is the worst.
My company wants us to (1) fill out a health assessment, (2) go to physician for a check up so he could fill out a form that we would have to send back and (3) have blood work done and send the results in. All for a $20/biweekly discount on health insurance. $500 a year to do that!
No way am I doing that. The only thing people can do with that information is use it against you. You're better off never letting anyone know and force the busybodies to make something up.
Photo Caption: In a bold bid to get a head-start for the Republican Nomination, Chris Christie trolls/trundles - almost capsizes - the NJ Boardwalk for votes...
To make soap, first we render fat.
Not just soap...glycerin has many uses.
Yeah but you didn't have the balls to show a picture of a fat #$%^& guy.
Bet his B.O. is more dangerous then "second hand" smoke.
imo, this is a passive way to rebel against the system
Make him walk and he will lose the weight.
Could he even get up? Could you with 350 or 400 extra lbs on you?
EMT's get stuck with moving these characters to hospital. Sometimes they remove the door frames, occasionally even lower them out of upper floors as they would a piano.
I assume we pay through the nose to have dialysis brought to them as many are simply immobile.
There's a newdocumentary out about it.
Fed UpThe dude in the picture looks like a giant gerbil without a tail.
All I can picture is the inside of his abdomen, a massive wall of fat that even extra-long retractors can't hold away from the vital organs. He better hope he never needs surgery. His knees must be shot though carrying that load. No wonder he needs a scooter.
Maybe this is a subconcious move towards adapting to global warming, preparing for the coastal cities to be submerged and be filled with manatee-people.
Processed food is a leading cause of obesity in the US. So all you preppers, better check your stash of food. All of that canned cambells, chunky, meat in a can is absolute poison.
http://www.undergroundhealth.com/nine-reasons-to-never-eat-processed-foods-again/
Poison when one is consuming over 3000 calories, but life-saving when one is consuming 1500 calories.
good point
Much "prepping" food is simply awful. Cases of MREs -- yeah, you'll look good after eating those for a year.
I stocked up on canned chicken, tuna, unsalted vegetables, items along those lines. I do have canned soups and beans, but I spent the money to get organic and less additives, though even these still use crap oils instead of olive or grapeseed oils. The canned fruit is in fruit juice, no sugar sauce.
I've tried to stock stuff I would consider eating in a non-emergency.
Crap food is better than no food.
Maybe, maybe not. But when you don't know where your next meal is coming from it seriously messes with your judgment. And even when food is plentiful again it's hard to let go of the urge to eat whatever you can lay your hands on, whenever you can get it.
I've been there.
I've also done fasting and radical dieting.
Completely different experiences.