US is getting fatter again

[giblets]

I don't consider a high calorie diet and a sedentary lifestyle to be as addictive as nicotine. Fat people feel shame because being fat is inherently shameful.

[Lorizael]

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that a fat person once did something terrible to Gribbler, like make him squeeze into a seat on the bus.

[giblets]

It's normal to feel shame when you make mistakes. And getting fat is a mistake. How is being shameless a good thing?

[Lorizael]

How is pretending your disgust-driven abuse is really a selfless motivational tool a good thing?

[giblets]

I haven't said anything abusive. I've only say that being fat is unhealthy, which is true, and that it's a choice, which is also true.

[Egbert]

I don't consider a high calorie diet and a sedentary lifestyle to be as addictive as nicotine. Fat people feel shame because being fat is inherently shameful.

A fat person should not feel "ashamed". I certainly accept your statements that it would be in an obese person's interests to get on a healthy diet and do some exercise. A propensity to obesity can be a genetic disposition. And sometimes eating some "wrong" foods.

I can not accept that they should feel ashamed.

[giblets]

If they have a spouse and/or children they should be ashamed of destroying their health while they're still young

[Sava]

A choice. So you are going with the tobacco company defense? OH YOU SHOULDA KNEW BETTER

Meanwhile, food companies lying about their products, even to this day. If the trans fat content in an item, per serving, is less than 0.4g, then they can write 0g on the box.

Legalized fraud.

And yes, the collective effect of trans fats and hfcs being in the food supply directly correlates with the increase in America's fatness.

Eating is a choice. Much like breathing. It is much easier to make healthy choices when most of your available options are healthy.



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[giblets]

They can't lie about the number of calories in the food, and I'm pretty sure fat people can read.

[giblets]

By the way, per capita consumption of high fructose corn syrup peaked in 1999 and has been in decline since then, yet the US is still getting fatter.

http://corn.org/publications/statistics/hfcs-consumption/

I guess scaremongering about HFCS isn't an effective way to combat obesity.

[giblets]

Wow, the decline in trans fat consumption has been even more dramatic:

Since trans fat content information began appearing in the Nutrition Facts label of foods in 2006, trans fat intake among American consumers has declined from 4.6 grams per day in 2003 to about 1 gram per day in 2012.

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm373939.htm

Yet Americans are still getting fatter. That's weird.

[C0ckney]

it's almost as if there were some kind of phyiscal law governing this.

[Dauphin]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34969424

[giblets]

Writing on Facebook, Ms Florish said she was "smaller than the national average and not exactly obese", and was "not upset" by the card, but worried it could upset people struggling with confidence and eating disorders.

The national average is overweight. And she clearly is upset, or else she would have thrown the card in the trash instead of posting it on Facebook and ranting about it.

[Lorizael]

Well, she has every right to be upset about it, because it's a mean thing to do to a person. Again, encouraging people to have better eating habits is one thing; attacking them and their body is another.