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Originally Posted by dutchmule
In practice, obesity is more prevalent in low income households, which makes b/ and c/ fail: processed foods are the cheapest (and the worst for you), and low-income families have less money to spend (basically, you'd get a healthy snack like an apple or something, but all they can afford is Cheetos), and fast food is very cheap around those parts and takes way less time than cooking at home and low-income families have less time to cook cause they have to worry about other urgent stuff.
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There's no doubt that the obesity epidemic is a huge, mufti-faceted issue. I was more speaking of a select portion of people to argue some points - I know a lot of overweight people who complain about being unhealthy but do little to change it.
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Originally Posted by dutchmule
Like? Again, if you're poor, you can't afford therapy, and you also might not have time or energy for transcendental meditation or socializing or whatever. I know you can say "then make time for it", but it must be more complicated than that when you're behind all your bills and your kid is sick and you can't afford a sitter.
And if you just mean "come on, stop caring about what other people think", pretty sure it's very hard, that you have to have good friends to support you for that anyways, and that when you're being publicly bullied, made fun of, laughed at by loudmouths, this advice sounds pretty inadequate... I'm not saying some people can't do it, just that it's not an advice that works in general.
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Again, I was talking about the same type of person, so this doesn't necessarily apply. I have had a lot of clients / seen a lot of people in the gym who have this complex that everyone is judging them even if people are just minding their own business. There are for sure idiots who make fun of them, but I think you just have to be mature in dealing with them. I mean, I've seen adults walk through a group of high school kids and the kids insult them, just because. Deal with the fools in the gym the same way.. just ignore it and if it gets bad, talk to management. Again, being low income greatly complicates things but I wasn't referring to that group.
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This is interesting - do you know if it's any cancer, or more the colorectal and other gut-related cancers?
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http://www.wcrf-uk.org/cancer_preven...and_cancer.php
There is strong evidence that being overweight increases the risk of the following cancers:
Being overweight also probably increases the risk of
gallbladder cancer.
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Originally Posted by flylock shox
Overweight people (and I'm using the BMI classification terminology here) live longer, healthier lives than "normal weight" people. "Obese" people don't suffer from significantly increased health problems until their BMIs reach (going by memory here) 35 and up.
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I'm not sure what to say other than this is wrong. Where did you read/hear this?