US is getting fatter again

[Sava]

Not the clearest statement, but.on my phone so **** you

Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

[giblets]

maybe you should stick your XT1254 up your butt

[Sava]

[Dauphin]

If fat people started exercising and losing weight, would their food consumption increase and raise food prices in the third world?

The people I know who have fitness as a priority (e.g. Daily Gym and running) seem to eat far more than people who are more on the rotund end of the scale.

[giblets]

Marathon runners and bodybuilders are baby killers

[Egbert]

maybe you should stick your XT1254 up your butt

Finding new uses for technology

[giblets]

Article
The (Ironic) Dove Effect: Usage of Acceptance Cues for Larger Body Types Increases Unhealthy Behaviors
Lily Lin and Brent McFerran*

*Lily Lin is Assistant Professor of Marketing at College of Business & Economics, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90032 (plin20@calstatela.edu).

Brent McFerran is Assistant Professor of Marketing at Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6 (brent.mcferran@sfu.ca).

The average weight of the population has risen rapidly in much of the world. Concurrently, in recent years, advertisers have increased the usage of larger models in their campaigns, and many of these ads claim that their larger models (as compared to thin models commonly used) possess “realistic” body types. Many groups have lauded these moves as beneficial to promoting a healthy body image in society. However, in five studies, the authors found that cues suggesting the acceptance of larger body types resulted in greater intended or actual consumption of food and a reduced motivation to engage in a healthier lifestyle. The authors suggest that one reason why being larger-bodied may appear to be contagious is that as it is seen as more socially permissible, individuals exhibit lower motivation to engage in healthy behaviors and consume greater portions of unhealthy food. The authors also contrast acceptance with communications stigmatizing various body types, and identify limitations of both approaches. The authors conclude with implications for public policy.

http://journals.ama.org/doi/10.1509/jppm.14.020

http://www.brentmcferran.com/Brent_McFerran/Papers_files/jppm%20final.pdf

[C0ckney]

Obesity is the biggest threat to women's health and the health of future generations, warns England's chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies.

Her annual report, which focuses on women this year, said tackling obesity should be a national priority to avert a "growing health catastrophe".
She said the food industry needed to do more or it should face a sugar tax.

Dame Sally is also calling for better treatment of ovarian cancer and more open discussion on incontinence.

England's top doctor said obesity was so serious it should be a priority for the whole population, but particularly for women because too often it shortened their lives.

In England in 2013, 56.4% of women aged 34-44 and 62% of women aged 45-54 were classified as overweight or obese.
Obesity increases the risk of many diseases including breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

[giblets]

Fattening your children is child abuse.

Morbidly obese woman who weighs 650LBS and is barely able to stand says her parents enable her life-threatening food addiction by giving her 'whatever' she wants to eat

A 650lb woman struggling with a life-threatening food addiction is among the 12 morbidly obese people who are documenting their heartwrenching battles to lose weight on the fourth season of TLC reality series My 600lb Life.

The latest season of the emotional show kicks off on January 6 with Nikki Webster, a 33-year-old food addict who is unable stop herself from binging - even though she fears it may cost her her life.

'I've done this to myself. Food has always been an addiction for me. It is killing me,' she tearfully explains in a new preview clip.

Even though she is in her early thirties, Nikki lives with her parents, who enable her as a food addict.

'When I start my day, I can't wait to start eating,' she says. 'My mom or dad will make me a plate and send it up to me so I don't have to go downstairs until breakfast.'

In the clip, Nikki's father can be seen preparing a plate filled with three sugary donuts before he sends it up on a stair lift.

And Nikki admits that her parents help fuel her addiction.

'My mom and dad cook and they get me whatever I want to eat,' she reveals.

Like the seasons before, each hour-long episode of My 600lb Life will tell the story of one individual who travels to Houston, Texas, to meet weight loss expert Dr Younan Nowzaradan in the desperate hope of undergoing life-saving gastric bypass surgery.

In upcoming episodes, viewers will also meet Ashley Bratcher, 26-year-old mother, who weighs 725lbs, and relies on her five-year-old son to take care of her,

Despite his young age, the boy brings her food and helps with daily chores that need to be done around the house.

Meanwhile, Sean Milliken's emotional eating has left him with a 900lb frame that prevents him being able to stand longer than 30 seconds.

According to Sean, his weight started to spiral out of control when he turned to food for comfort after he was left traumatized by his parents divorce.

Last season, viewers met Marla McCants, a 43-year-old woman from Nashville, Tennessee, who weighed 800lbs.

A year after she started her weight loss journey on the reality series, she was able to stand on a scale for the first time in five years, clocking in at 534lbs.

[Dinner]

At 33 she kind of needs to stop blaming her parents.

[kentonio]

If your kid weighed 650lb and you were in the middle of sending a plate of sugary donuts up to her on a stair lift, would you not have at least a brief moment when you stopped and thought.. "What the actual **** is wrong with me?"

[The Mad Monk]

If you weighed 650lb at 33 and you were in the middle of waiting for a plate of sugary donuts being sent up to you on a stair lift, would you not have at least a brief moment when you stopped and thought.. "What the actual **** is wrong with me?"

[kentonio]

I agree with that too, but when people are that heavily obese its clear they have some real emotional or mental issues that make it incredibly hard to stop. Same thing as when you see drug addicts whoring themselves or robbing their families, its well past rational consideration at that point.

[giblets]

I'm guessing that choosing not to give donuts to a food addict is easier than choosing not to eat donuts when you are addicted to food.

[kentonio]

I'm guessing that choosing not to give donuts to a food addict is easier than choosing not to eat donuts when you are addicted to food.

Yeah exactly. What the **** the parents are thinking is beyond me.