Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome, Meanie. We're glad to here what you have to say. Now, post some pictures, y'hear? --Bob ==On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Dominic Morris <meanachomorris at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, All > > Newbie hear. Should just lurk a bit to start but have to say that it's a > perfect storm, ain't it? Fast food + TV + video games + drive thrus (don't > even hafta exert the energy to open yer car door to get yer fat fix) + > power lawn mowers + power wheel chairs, power chair lifts & power what > have yous. Lotta greedies making mucho moolah helping us all burn less > calories. ?Obesity rates says wikipedia were under 15% in 1971. When did > donkey kong get his start? About then wasnit? Krok got the big m goin' in > 55 or so. Didn't nobody get fat those first 15 years? > > Back then we had mucking about with play forts, baseball, football, > basketball volleyball, swimming, running, jumping and just plane horsing > around and a bunch of other thingies (red rover, red rover!) that got the > kiddies out and about and burnin' the fat. No sittin' about gettin' gamers > thumbs. I'd include callisthenics if I could spel it. > > Yeah gotta eat the right stuff but also do enough of the right stuff to > keep energy-in energy-out all in nice balance. When you're not doing > neither, whoo-hoo! Upsize my airplane seat! > > Meanie. > > ?~~~ Blessed are the merciful ~~~ > > > On 2011-Sep-06 , at 11:50 , <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> > wrote: > >> Richard Man offered: >> Subject: Re: [Leica] extreme fast food >> >> >>> 1/3 of Americans are obese - not just overweight, but obese. >>> >>> The trend is that by 2050, the obesity rate will hit 50%. >>> >>> The effect will be mind boggling - food, productivity, healthcare, health >>> related industry, drugs, oil, even size of the seats on the plane will be >>> affected. Trickle down trickle down... >> >> Hi Richard, >> The same "FAT-OBESE" situation is growing (no pun intended) here in >> Canada. :-( I understand some folks body systems in how their food intake >> and what "food" they intake dissolves/digests creates some of the >> problem. In many cases economics plays a role in what food people can >> afford to help maintain healthy body weight. Proper food can be seen as >> very expensive for some economic levels. So eating nothing but cheap >> "JUNK FOOD" constantly creates what we see in so many of Jim Shulman's >> photos. "Huge how do they walk about these obese human beings?" How do >> their knees, hips and lower body joints carry the weight? The medical >> people are learning daily? They can't! IE: more medical costs! :-( >> ?Certainly for those least who can afford it! :-( >> >> One can honestly say some folks just can't help it once they're "hooked!" >> So they just continue to eat junk food and grow, falling by the wayside >> with Diabetes or other "obese" related illnesses. I have great sympathy >> for some, as it isn't an ?easy task to drop 50 to 200 hundred pounds of >> excess body mass. Unless a person is kept under absolute intake of food >> control. And up go the medical costs once again! >> >> So if your estimate for 2050 that 50% of USA citizens will be obese? The >> medical cost to America will be astronomical. >> >> The health results of looking after these unfortunates in health costs is >> going to be far beyond what anyone expects compared to the costs of many >> major medical disease situations. The answer to it?????????? >> >> Quite frankly I don't have a clue given it's basically a major disease >> across America spreading to Canada at an alarming rate. >> >> Anyone carrying more than what should be close to considered "normal >> weight" have my most heart felt sympathies. >> >> My good fortune has always been on the mark body frame and ?weight. >> Probably due to my life cycle of always being on the move and active >> involved covering my assignments about the country and the world. >> >> For what all this has to do with carrying a Leica???????? Just one of >> those LUG Family off topic moments!" >> >> >> cheers, >> Dr. ted >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >