[Leica] extreme fast food

[meanachomorris at gmail.com (Dominic Morris)]

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 
> 
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