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drnick -> RE: New Research: No Such Thing as Fit AND Fat (5/1/2008 6:43:03 AM)
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That is SO not true. It is a stereotype. If fast food made people fat, all people who ate fast food would be fat. Studies show fat people eat similarly to thin people. Also, obesity and diabetes have a corrolation, not a causation, and you would do well to look up the difference. Think of your famous diabetic people...mary tyler moore, for instance, is she fat? no? Then how on earth did she get diabetes?!
Well...
I occasionally eat fast food. I'm not fat. In fact, I can't eat too much fast food because it tends to make me feel sick afterwards, presumably because of the content.
People who just eat fast food are asking to be fat. People who eat the stuff occasionally (ie 1-2/month; why would you need to do it more often?) and otherwise eat a balanced diet and keep active probably won't be.
Sure, you get obese elderly people, but they tend to have quite a lot wrong with them.
And they can be a nightmare to treat when things do go wrong.
And you need to know what type of diabetes people get. One type is autoimmune and has nothing to do with lifestyle.
Another is linked to obesity. Not in every case, but the fatter you are, the more likely you are to get Type 2 diabetes. Also runs in families, so that's a risk. But don't kid yourself that an obese diabetic can get away with blaming their genes, their lifestyle is almost certainly at least as much to blame.
What's sad is that people will tie themselves in knots trying to avoid admitting any responsability for things like obesity. Far better to blame genes, environment, etc. Anything but themselves.
And until they face up to lifestyle choices, they won't lose weight. Might not even when they do, but they've got a better chance.
And then you see obese parents, and obese children, and genes are blamed. Nope, it's the fact that the parents have an unhealthy lifestyle, and share it with their kids, who learn the behaviour, and the cycle continues. Doesn't always happen, but often enough.
I have several friends with weight problems at church, and when you dig deep enough it's always lifestyle choices. Some do lose weight, not always permanently.
Fortunately for me, my mother always cooked fresh produce, avoided fast food as much as possible (never went into a McDonalds before the age of 13), and insisted on fruit, vegetables, home made lemonade etc right through my childhood. And got me into sports.
And now approaching 40 I still do sport 2-3 times a week, walk to work, and am trying to pass this onto my kids too.
It can be done.
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