huge topic:Americans keep getting fatter

[briansd1]

[quote=Eugene]
Quantity is more important than composition. Pretty much anything can be converted into fat, as long as there’s an excess of calories.

One Chipotle burrito contains 1200 to 1400 calories. [/quote]

By quantity, you must mean calorie density.

It’s important to choose high nutrition, high antioxidant, low calorie, low glycemic index, high fiber food.

For example, I have plain oatmeal with hot water for breakfast. If you eat the flavored, sugared oatmeal, then you’re defeating the purpose.

I’ve learned to eat very plain, bland food. But I find it delicious because I can taste and appreciate the natural unadulterated ingredients.

[natty]

Obesity is an imaginary word used on a sliding scale.
BMI is bunk. body weight/height ARE up for interpretation. Take for instance a 6′ tall, 215lb athlete, true body fat percentage 4%, but by BMI calculations, 29.2 and overweight-nearing ‘obese’.

Even within BMI, countries have different ‘normalcy ranges’. The calculation is stated as a risk assessment tool, and when coupled with ANY other ‘risks’, can be an indicator for shorter life expectancy. A more general statement is difficult to find when it comes to health.

A more accurate body fat percentage measurement is not performed by your local physician. Hydrostatic body fat testing is a method.

For me, the places I frequent, activities I participate in, people I would classify as adversely overweight are not an overwhelming common sight.

The reality is, we are all in the process of dying, some faster than others by choice, some not by choice, some by random life events.

Are diet and nutrition widely understood, of course not. Are many restaurant options more concerned with profit than raw food quality, of course. Is large scale food mfg/processing ‘made’, and not ‘natural’, yes.

Is there a solvable problem here? No.

[natty]

Obesity is an imaginary word used on a sliding scale.
BMI is bunk. body weight/height ARE up for interpretation. Take for instance a 6′ tall, 215lb athlete, true body fat percentage 4%, but by BMI calculations, 29.2 and overweight-nearing ‘obese’.

Even within BMI, countries have different ‘normalcy ranges’. The calculation is stated as a risk assessment tool, and when coupled with ANY other ‘risks’, can be an indicator for shorter life expectancy. A more general statement is difficult to find when it comes to health.

A more accurate body fat percentage measurement is not performed by your local physician. Hydrostatic body fat testing is a method.

For me, the places I frequent, activities I participate in, people I would classify as adversely overweight are not an overwhelming common sight.

The reality is, we are all in the process of dying, some faster than others by choice, some not by choice, some by random life events.

Are diet and nutrition widely understood, of course not. Are many restaurant options more concerned with profit than raw food quality, of course. Is large scale food mfg/processing ‘made’, and not ‘natural’, yes.

Is there a solvable problem here? No.

[natty]

Obesity is an imaginary word used on a sliding scale.
BMI is bunk. body weight/height ARE up for interpretation. Take for instance a 6′ tall, 215lb athlete, true body fat percentage 4%, but by BMI calculations, 29.2 and overweight-nearing ‘obese’.

Even within BMI, countries have different ‘normalcy ranges’. The calculation is stated as a risk assessment tool, and when coupled with ANY other ‘risks’, can be an indicator for shorter life expectancy. A more general statement is difficult to find when it comes to health.

A more accurate body fat percentage measurement is not performed by your local physician. Hydrostatic body fat testing is a method.

For me, the places I frequent, activities I participate in, people I would classify as adversely overweight are not an overwhelming common sight.

The reality is, we are all in the process of dying, some faster than others by choice, some not by choice, some by random life events.

Are diet and nutrition widely understood, of course not. Are many restaurant options more concerned with profit than raw food quality, of course. Is large scale food mfg/processing ‘made’, and not ‘natural’, yes.

Is there a solvable problem here? No.

[natty]

Obesity is an imaginary word used on a sliding scale.
BMI is bunk. body weight/height ARE up for interpretation. Take for instance a 6′ tall, 215lb athlete, true body fat percentage 4%, but by BMI calculations, 29.2 and overweight-nearing ‘obese’.

Even within BMI, countries have different ‘normalcy ranges’. The calculation is stated as a risk assessment tool, and when coupled with ANY other ‘risks’, can be an indicator for shorter life expectancy. A more general statement is difficult to find when it comes to health.

A more accurate body fat percentage measurement is not performed by your local physician. Hydrostatic body fat testing is a method.

For me, the places I frequent, activities I participate in, people I would classify as adversely overweight are not an overwhelming common sight.

The reality is, we are all in the process of dying, some faster than others by choice, some not by choice, some by random life events.

Are diet and nutrition widely understood, of course not. Are many restaurant options more concerned with profit than raw food quality, of course. Is large scale food mfg/processing ‘made’, and not ‘natural’, yes.

Is there a solvable problem here? No.

[natty]

Obesity is an imaginary word used on a sliding scale.
BMI is bunk. body weight/height ARE up for interpretation. Take for instance a 6′ tall, 215lb athlete, true body fat percentage 4%, but by BMI calculations, 29.2 and overweight-nearing ‘obese’.

Even within BMI, countries have different ‘normalcy ranges’. The calculation is stated as a risk assessment tool, and when coupled with ANY other ‘risks’, can be an indicator for shorter life expectancy. A more general statement is difficult to find when it comes to health.

A more accurate body fat percentage measurement is not performed by your local physician. Hydrostatic body fat testing is a method.

For me, the places I frequent, activities I participate in, people I would classify as adversely overweight are not an overwhelming common sight.

The reality is, we are all in the process of dying, some faster than others by choice, some not by choice, some by random life events.

Are diet and nutrition widely understood, of course not. Are many restaurant options more concerned with profit than raw food quality, of course. Is large scale food mfg/processing ‘made’, and not ‘natural’, yes.

Is there a solvable problem here? No.

[desmond]

[quote=briansd1][quote=Eugene]
Quantity is more important than composition. Pretty much anything can be converted into fat, as long as there’s an excess of calories.

One Chipotle burrito contains 1200 to 1400 calories. [/quote]

By quantity, you must mean calorie density.

It’s important to choose high nutrition, high antioxidant, low calorie, low glycemic index, high fiber food.

For example, I have plain oatmeal with hot water for breakfast. If you eat the flavored, sugared oatmeal, then you’re defeating the purpose.

I’ve learned to eat very plain, bland food. But I find it delicious because I can taste and appreciate the natural unadulterated ingredients.[/quote]

Sounds like my sex life.

[desmond]

[quote=briansd1][quote=Eugene]
Quantity is more important than composition. Pretty much anything can be converted into fat, as long as there’s an excess of calories.

One Chipotle burrito contains 1200 to 1400 calories. [/quote]

By quantity, you must mean calorie density.

It’s important to choose high nutrition, high antioxidant, low calorie, low glycemic index, high fiber food.

For example, I have plain oatmeal with hot water for breakfast. If you eat the flavored, sugared oatmeal, then you’re defeating the purpose.

I’ve learned to eat very plain, bland food. But I find it delicious because I can taste and appreciate the natural unadulterated ingredients.[/quote]

Sounds like my sex life.

[desmond]

[quote=briansd1][quote=Eugene]
Quantity is more important than composition. Pretty much anything can be converted into fat, as long as there’s an excess of calories.

One Chipotle burrito contains 1200 to 1400 calories. [/quote]

By quantity, you must mean calorie density.

It’s important to choose high nutrition, high antioxidant, low calorie, low glycemic index, high fiber food.

For example, I have plain oatmeal with hot water for breakfast. If you eat the flavored, sugared oatmeal, then you’re defeating the purpose.

I’ve learned to eat very plain, bland food. But I find it delicious because I can taste and appreciate the natural unadulterated ingredients.[/quote]

Sounds like my sex life.

[desmond]

[quote=briansd1][quote=Eugene]
Quantity is more important than composition. Pretty much anything can be converted into fat, as long as there’s an excess of calories.

One Chipotle burrito contains 1200 to 1400 calories. [/quote]

By quantity, you must mean calorie density.

It’s important to choose high nutrition, high antioxidant, low calorie, low glycemic index, high fiber food.

For example, I have plain oatmeal with hot water for breakfast. If you eat the flavored, sugared oatmeal, then you’re defeating the purpose.

I’ve learned to eat very plain, bland food. But I find it delicious because I can taste and appreciate the natural unadulterated ingredients.[/quote]

Sounds like my sex life.

[desmond]

[quote=briansd1][quote=Eugene]
Quantity is more important than composition. Pretty much anything can be converted into fat, as long as there’s an excess of calories.

One Chipotle burrito contains 1200 to 1400 calories. [/quote]

By quantity, you must mean calorie density.

It’s important to choose high nutrition, high antioxidant, low calorie, low glycemic index, high fiber food.

For example, I have plain oatmeal with hot water for breakfast. If you eat the flavored, sugared oatmeal, then you’re defeating the purpose.

I’ve learned to eat very plain, bland food. But I find it delicious because I can taste and appreciate the natural unadulterated ingredients.[/quote]

Sounds like my sex life.

[jpinpb]

[quote=briansd1]I’ve learned to eat very plain, bland food. But I find it delicious because I can taste and appreciate the natural unadulterated ingredients.[/quote]

That’s a good point. Salt is in everything and I think it deadens one’s taste buds. Takes a while of eating “bland” food, but then you do taste the flavor of the actual ingredient and it’s not bland at all.

[jpinpb]

[quote=briansd1]I’ve learned to eat very plain, bland food. But I find it delicious because I can taste and appreciate the natural unadulterated ingredients.[/quote]

That’s a good point. Salt is in everything and I think it deadens one’s taste buds. Takes a while of eating “bland” food, but then you do taste the flavor of the actual ingredient and it’s not bland at all.

[jpinpb]

[quote=briansd1]I’ve learned to eat very plain, bland food. But I find it delicious because I can taste and appreciate the natural unadulterated ingredients.[/quote]

That’s a good point. Salt is in everything and I think it deadens one’s taste buds. Takes a while of eating “bland” food, but then you do taste the flavor of the actual ingredient and it’s not bland at all.

[jpinpb]

[quote=briansd1]I’ve learned to eat very plain, bland food. But I find it delicious because I can taste and appreciate the natural unadulterated ingredients.[/quote]

That’s a good point. Salt is in everything and I think it deadens one’s taste buds. Takes a while of eating “bland” food, but then you do taste the flavor of the actual ingredient and it’s not bland at all.

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