CNN: Fat is fit

[Al B. Sure!]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/03/opinion/wann-fat-and-fit-study/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

What were you all saying again? Against all sense, the promotion of the obese lifestyle continues unabated in America

[Elok]

Fleshlight Classic (Available in Three Inputs)

Two holed, taintless, it will receive your violence with gnarled innards. More rests within the clapboard dresser. Drawn up from perdition, a maw with no face that speaks to a man's worst intention. A trio of wounds carved in shame. The potential of a million sons soured in the terrain of lifelike silicon. Gripping tightly or not at all. Incapable of knowing love or hate. It will look upon the proud javelin of Apollo's Kyparissos or the foulest specimen of expelled filth and intestine parasites with the same empty yearning as the clam's siphon for grit.

"I agree"

[MichaeltheGreat]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/03/opinio...html?hpt=hp_c3


What were you all saying again? Against all sense, the promotion of the obese lifestyle continues unabated in America

Are you ever going to be anything even vaguely resembling normal?

[giblets]

Smokers should start an "acceptance movement" too so they won't be looked down upon because of their unhealthy lifestyle choices.

[MRT144]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/03/opinio...html?hpt=hp_c3


What were you all saying again? Against all sense, the promotion of the obese lifestyle continues unabated in America

I'd like to explain to you how you think you're persecuted because of a shifting status quo.

[BlackCat]

That article is idiotic - if fat people want to travel they can hire a bulk carrier.

[Snotty]

Ability to sit and rise from the floor is closely correlated with all-cause mortality risk
Test of musculo-skeletal fitness is 'strong predictor' of mortality in the middle-aged and older

This seems like a great test. If you cant stand up then your probably ****ed, whether you are fat or thin

[-Jrabbit]

It's just an opinion piece, Alby.

You're generally very good at ignoring other people's opinions. Let it go.

[Snotty]

However, in this study a composite score below 8 (that is, requiring more than one hand or knee support to sit and rise from the floor in a stable way) were associated with 2–5 fold higher death rates over the 6.3 year study period.

Im loving the fact that sitting and rising are predominantly legs and back exercises - just the ones that gym bunnys hate doing.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse? If youre not working your legs and back then you will

[regexcellent]

Alby, what the hell is with your fitness obsession? If people want to become fat, that's a choice. Let them. It's not my business and it's not yours.

Besides which, fitness is just a means to an end, seriously. For the vast majority of people, they don't need to do any lifting heavier than their own body (i.e. push-ups, sit-ups, similar calisthenics) and go jogging every now and then. That will keep you perfectly healthy and isn't likely to cause injuries. And if you have a very physical job you will probably develop the necessary physical ability just by working that job.

[BlackCat]

Alby, what the hell is with your fitness obsession? If people want to become fat, that's a choice. Let them. It's not my business and it's not yours.

That isn't true. Fat people demands that all people shall pay to accomodate their need wether it's bigger seats in planes, beds in hospitals etc.

[Al B. Sure!]

To quote Xenophon:

Because our city does not practice military training in public, that is no reason for neglecting it in private, but rather a reason for making it a foremost care. For be you assured that there is no contest of any sort, nor any transaction, in which you will be the worse off for being well prepared in body; and in fact there is nothing which men do for which the body is not a help....

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

[MRT144]

You're a 28 year old virgin, obviously you're not self-neglecting.

[BlackCat]

To quote Xenophon:

To quote Xenophon according to todays society is immensly stupid

[Aeson]

What is "metabolically healthy", and how is being fat not a factor in it? Also, "fit" is relative to the challenges faced towards some end. The most primal function of all life is to procreate, and so I would have to say that all virgins (sans Mary, Mother of Jesus) are by definition unfit. Indeed, Al is seemingly less fit than the fattest man who ever lived, Jon Minnoch, who was able to father 2 children.

(I am also similarly as unfit.)