huge topic:Americans keep getting fatter

[briansd1]

[quote=jpinpb]I blame it on HFCS.[/quote]

I think that you’re partly right. HFCS is cheap sugar that we put into everything.

Cheap sugar is like cheap gas. We use lots of it. We pollute our bodies and environment.

Should government regulate and raise the prices to save us from ourselves? Or should the people be free to consume cheap stuff?

We’ve decided to let the buyers beware. So, with that predicate, fat people are responsible for their own problems. The fact is that one can’t gain weight unless one consumes more calories that one expends.

If we force fat people to pay proportionately more for their health care, maybe people would make adjustments to their eating habits.

[Aecetia]

HFCS would not be so cheap if cane sugar was not subsidized. http://www.fff.org/freedom/0498d.asp Free market economics would lower the price and then perhaps there would be less obesity or not. We are probably paying for the medical care of many of the morbidly obese because I doubt most of them are working, judging from the Walmart pictures.

[Aecetia]

HFCS would not be so cheap if cane sugar was not subsidized. http://www.fff.org/freedom/0498d.asp Free market economics would lower the price and then perhaps there would be less obesity or not. We are probably paying for the medical care of many of the morbidly obese because I doubt most of them are working, judging from the Walmart pictures.

[Aecetia]

HFCS would not be so cheap if cane sugar was not subsidized. http://www.fff.org/freedom/0498d.asp Free market economics would lower the price and then perhaps there would be less obesity or not. We are probably paying for the medical care of many of the morbidly obese because I doubt most of them are working, judging from the Walmart pictures.

[Aecetia]

HFCS would not be so cheap if cane sugar was not subsidized. http://www.fff.org/freedom/0498d.asp Free market economics would lower the price and then perhaps there would be less obesity or not. We are probably paying for the medical care of many of the morbidly obese because I doubt most of them are working, judging from the Walmart pictures.

[Aecetia]

HFCS would not be so cheap if cane sugar was not subsidized. http://www.fff.org/freedom/0498d.asp Free market economics would lower the price and then perhaps there would be less obesity or not. We are probably paying for the medical care of many of the morbidly obese because I doubt most of them are working, judging from the Walmart pictures.

[Eugene]

I don’t think that HFCS is a big part of the problem. HFCS is uncommon outside the United States, and they are facing the same problem:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-620-m/2005001/c-g/adults-adutles/chart1.gif (Canada)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Img/155048/0046089.gif (Scotland)
http://www.wunrn.com/news/2007/12_07/12_10_07/121007_uk_files/image010.gif (UK)

And, here in the U.S., it is an extremely old problem. The United States had a higher obesity rate in 1970 (before HFCS was introduced) than countries like Spain or France have today.

I try to consume as little HFCS or sugar as possible, and I don’t think that one is necessarily better than the other.

The real cause, I think, is restaurants (including, but not limited to fast-food) and their drive to make bigger and tastier portions. The way our human bodies work, it’s easy to gain weight by overeating, it’s very hard to lose it. You can gain 1/3 to 1/2 lb. without thinking twice just by eating once at El Torito or Chipotle, unless you exercise conscious restraint and stop halfway through the meal. Once that fat is in your body, it’s going to stay there, it takes a lot of strenuous exercise, something like 2 hours on a treadmill, to get it out. Go to El Torito once a week for three years without exercising – that’s 60 lbs, enough to get you from normal BMI to obesity. Since most people go to restaurants much more often than they exercise for 2 hours continuously, it’s no surprise that so many people are fat.

[Eugene]

I don’t think that HFCS is a big part of the problem. HFCS is uncommon outside the United States, and they are facing the same problem:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-620-m/2005001/c-g/adults-adutles/chart1.gif (Canada)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Img/155048/0046089.gif (Scotland)
http://www.wunrn.com/news/2007/12_07/12_10_07/121007_uk_files/image010.gif (UK)

And, here in the U.S., it is an extremely old problem. The United States had a higher obesity rate in 1970 (before HFCS was introduced) than countries like Spain or France have today.

I try to consume as little HFCS or sugar as possible, and I don’t think that one is necessarily better than the other.

The real cause, I think, is restaurants (including, but not limited to fast-food) and their drive to make bigger and tastier portions. The way our human bodies work, it’s easy to gain weight by overeating, it’s very hard to lose it. You can gain 1/3 to 1/2 lb. without thinking twice just by eating once at El Torito or Chipotle, unless you exercise conscious restraint and stop halfway through the meal. Once that fat is in your body, it’s going to stay there, it takes a lot of strenuous exercise, something like 2 hours on a treadmill, to get it out. Go to El Torito once a week for three years without exercising – that’s 60 lbs, enough to get you from normal BMI to obesity. Since most people go to restaurants much more often than they exercise for 2 hours continuously, it’s no surprise that so many people are fat.

[Eugene]

I don’t think that HFCS is a big part of the problem. HFCS is uncommon outside the United States, and they are facing the same problem:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-620-m/2005001/c-g/adults-adutles/chart1.gif (Canada)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Img/155048/0046089.gif (Scotland)
http://www.wunrn.com/news/2007/12_07/12_10_07/121007_uk_files/image010.gif (UK)

And, here in the U.S., it is an extremely old problem. The United States had a higher obesity rate in 1970 (before HFCS was introduced) than countries like Spain or France have today.

I try to consume as little HFCS or sugar as possible, and I don’t think that one is necessarily better than the other.

The real cause, I think, is restaurants (including, but not limited to fast-food) and their drive to make bigger and tastier portions. The way our human bodies work, it’s easy to gain weight by overeating, it’s very hard to lose it. You can gain 1/3 to 1/2 lb. without thinking twice just by eating once at El Torito or Chipotle, unless you exercise conscious restraint and stop halfway through the meal. Once that fat is in your body, it’s going to stay there, it takes a lot of strenuous exercise, something like 2 hours on a treadmill, to get it out. Go to El Torito once a week for three years without exercising – that’s 60 lbs, enough to get you from normal BMI to obesity. Since most people go to restaurants much more often than they exercise for 2 hours continuously, it’s no surprise that so many people are fat.

[Eugene]

I don’t think that HFCS is a big part of the problem. HFCS is uncommon outside the United States, and they are facing the same problem:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-620-m/2005001/c-g/adults-adutles/chart1.gif (Canada)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Img/155048/0046089.gif (Scotland)
http://www.wunrn.com/news/2007/12_07/12_10_07/121007_uk_files/image010.gif (UK)

And, here in the U.S., it is an extremely old problem. The United States had a higher obesity rate in 1970 (before HFCS was introduced) than countries like Spain or France have today.

I try to consume as little HFCS or sugar as possible, and I don’t think that one is necessarily better than the other.

The real cause, I think, is restaurants (including, but not limited to fast-food) and their drive to make bigger and tastier portions. The way our human bodies work, it’s easy to gain weight by overeating, it’s very hard to lose it. You can gain 1/3 to 1/2 lb. without thinking twice just by eating once at El Torito or Chipotle, unless you exercise conscious restraint and stop halfway through the meal. Once that fat is in your body, it’s going to stay there, it takes a lot of strenuous exercise, something like 2 hours on a treadmill, to get it out. Go to El Torito once a week for three years without exercising – that’s 60 lbs, enough to get you from normal BMI to obesity. Since most people go to restaurants much more often than they exercise for 2 hours continuously, it’s no surprise that so many people are fat.

[Eugene]

I don’t think that HFCS is a big part of the problem. HFCS is uncommon outside the United States, and they are facing the same problem:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-620-m/2005001/c-g/adults-adutles/chart1.gif (Canada)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Img/155048/0046089.gif (Scotland)
http://www.wunrn.com/news/2007/12_07/12_10_07/121007_uk_files/image010.gif (UK)

And, here in the U.S., it is an extremely old problem. The United States had a higher obesity rate in 1970 (before HFCS was introduced) than countries like Spain or France have today.

I try to consume as little HFCS or sugar as possible, and I don’t think that one is necessarily better than the other.

The real cause, I think, is restaurants (including, but not limited to fast-food) and their drive to make bigger and tastier portions. The way our human bodies work, it’s easy to gain weight by overeating, it’s very hard to lose it. You can gain 1/3 to 1/2 lb. without thinking twice just by eating once at El Torito or Chipotle, unless you exercise conscious restraint and stop halfway through the meal. Once that fat is in your body, it’s going to stay there, it takes a lot of strenuous exercise, something like 2 hours on a treadmill, to get it out. Go to El Torito once a week for three years without exercising – that’s 60 lbs, enough to get you from normal BMI to obesity. Since most people go to restaurants much more often than they exercise for 2 hours continuously, it’s no surprise that so many people are fat.

[CardiffBaseball]

The fat that you eat isn’t any big deal if you leave out the starchy foods (pasta, bread, potatoes etc.)

Hard to do, yet I feel so much better personally when I cut out the carbs (veggies and fruits ok, but limit fruits if cutting).

Started grabbing stuff off of Livin’ La Vida Lo-Carb at itunes just to make myself realize that feeling better means eating better. I sleep better, have more energy etc.

[CardiffBaseball]

The fat that you eat isn’t any big deal if you leave out the starchy foods (pasta, bread, potatoes etc.)

Hard to do, yet I feel so much better personally when I cut out the carbs (veggies and fruits ok, but limit fruits if cutting).

Started grabbing stuff off of Livin’ La Vida Lo-Carb at itunes just to make myself realize that feeling better means eating better. I sleep better, have more energy etc.

[CardiffBaseball]

The fat that you eat isn’t any big deal if you leave out the starchy foods (pasta, bread, potatoes etc.)

Hard to do, yet I feel so much better personally when I cut out the carbs (veggies and fruits ok, but limit fruits if cutting).

Started grabbing stuff off of Livin’ La Vida Lo-Carb at itunes just to make myself realize that feeling better means eating better. I sleep better, have more energy etc.

[CardiffBaseball]

The fat that you eat isn’t any big deal if you leave out the starchy foods (pasta, bread, potatoes etc.)

Hard to do, yet I feel so much better personally when I cut out the carbs (veggies and fruits ok, but limit fruits if cutting).

Started grabbing stuff off of Livin’ La Vida Lo-Carb at itunes just to make myself realize that feeling better means eating better. I sleep better, have more energy etc.

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