Re: Obesity again...

Fifty years ago the foods we ate were basically just
cooked or eaten raw.
Today, the proliferation of high fat, high sugar foods
in most diets, combined with an ever increasing lack
of physical movement have led us to be FAT.
High fructose sweeteners and fried foods.
Much fewer purely physical jobs.
Pretty simple formula for obesity.




Thuss wrote:
The discussion on obesity brought out the fact that

morbid obesity is growing. Years ago, 250 lbs was about

as big as you saw, and they were not all that common. A

three hundred pounder was rare, indeed. I cannot recall

ever seeing someone like that untill about twenty years

ago. Then, in the 90's, they seem to proliferate. I

would see parents, mom and dad, both mountains,

escorting a regular sized kid to school. As the 1990's

progressed, I began seeing more and more people at 300

or more pounds. One local newspapaer columnist, always

overweight, suddenly got to 400. And his son was

approaching that weight. After I retired, I moved to an adult hotel. Being also

an Assisted Living Facility, there were a number of

morbidly obese younger people there. And I am talking

about 400 and above. One woman, pretty from her

shoulders up, admitted to 512 lbs. She wore tent-sized

dresses, and was confined to a powered wheel chair.

Another woman, in her early 50's, was over 400lbs, and

also in a powered chair. One couple were both massively

overweight, and both were in power chairs. One man,

still on his feet, was over 300 lbs, and had his legs

wrapped. When these people would fall, which was

often, it took the entire aide staff plus a a specilly

built lift to raise them. When the hotel closed and we had to find other places,

one of the 400 pounders went to one nationally known

ALF. After a few days, she fell. They did not have the

special lift needed to raise her, so EMS was called.

They, too, couldn't handle her without the lift.

Finally, several people volunteered to help get her up.

Afterward, she was told that she could no longer stay

there because of her morbid obesity and the problems it

caused the facility. She was moved to a private home

facility, then to a nursing home, where she subsequently

died. The five hundred pounder is in and out of the hospital,

and has been placed in a nursing home with the proper

lifts. What's going on here? I know we eat too much, but we

have, as a country, always done that in times of plenty.

But as we have seen, when we were young, 250lbs was

usually the limit. And the argument that food is

plentiful and cheap now just doesn't wash. Food is not

that much cheaper now. Over sixty percent of Americans are obese. This

statistic indicates something more than gluttony and

sloth. Gluttony and sloth causes us to be 50 lbs

overweight at most. Not 400 lbs overweight.
Anybody with ideas?
.

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