OT: Obesity

[spdrun]

Long, sedentary periods of work sure don’t help. Jobs with long working hours in the past tended to be blue-collar and involved physical exertion.

Nor does lack of free time to cook, or grab anything other than fast food for lunch.

Of course, there might be other factors in play, like obesogenic chemicals in food and the environment.

[NotCranky]

[quote=spdrun]Long, sedentary periods of work sure don’t help. Jobs with long working hours in the past tended to be blue-collar and involved physical exertion.

Nor does lack of free time to cook, or grab anything other than fast food for lunch.

Of course, there might be other factors in play, like obesogenic chemicals in food and the environment.[/quote]
It still mostly comes from calories dense nutrition light eating and drinking and too little energy spent during the average day.

Most people can do an amazing job of losing weight if they tried ,but don’t keep it off. So I don’t think there is too much voodoo fat out there. My MIL a big desert eater always says her son got the fat tendency from her, until he got serious about his health and is now 6’3″ 170 something.
Office people can get desks for standing work, and I think there is even one that lifts and lowers so a person can stand or sit at it( sit when you need a break from standing. Some engineering offices I have seen have high tables with tall backless barstools and people do tend to stand as much or more as sit. Sitting on a exercise ball instead of a chair keeps muscles engaged. 10 pull ups 10 squats and 10 push up and hour in a 12 hour day wouldn’t hurt work productivity too much , if it didn’t actually increase it. 120 pull ups , body weight squats and push ups is a pretty good workout especially compared. Add , a half hour jog or an hour walk most days and you are set.

It’s funny how many people find out that I exercise and eat pretty well and they say ” wow , why do you do that? You never had a weight problem”.

[scaredyclassic]

i sometimes do bodyweight squats in line at costco or traderjoes and my wife and kids disapprove.

[CA renter]

[quote=scaredyclassic]i sometimes do bodyweight squats in line at costco or traderjoes and my wife and kids disapprove.[/quote]

Do you really? That would be fun to watch! 🙂

[scaredyclassic]

It is true

[FlyerInHi]

Holding 2 jugs of Tide?

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=FlyerInHi]Holding 2 jugs of Tide?[/quote]

Not a bad idea. Perhaps the 50 lb sack of basmati rice

[Jazzman]

Economists? Too busy making up their mind …on the one hand this could make me fat, but on the other this could make me fatter.

[NotCranky]

Usually we get someone on these threads who argues that they are they healthy kind of fat. I don’t think that happened here but here is a recent rebuttal to that argument. http://www.nbcnews.com/health/diet-fitness/energize-your-eggs-11-easy-ways-better-breakfast-n284756

To be fair , lots of asymptomatic skinny people are going to get sicker over 20 years too, if not metabolic or cardiac problems something else will get them(us), especially if the 20 years covers something like ages 50-70 or 60 to 80.

[FlyerInHi]

When you see fat, you know it. That guy eating the donut in the picture above is chubby!

Recent news reported that periodic fasting is good for you. I’ve done that for a couple decades now.

Coconut water has been the rage lately. I’ve been going to the Asian store to buy fresh coconut. I discovered coconut decades ago in Thailand. I drink 1 fresh coconut per day. No cans, no packaged products. It’s awesome that we have access to products for all over.

Basically, you have to build good health habits from a young age if you want to stay healthy and goodlooking for a long time.

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