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What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
Lots of very overweight people.

Lots of starving people.


Just saying...
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
I think a major problem is High Fructose Corn Syrup. Its used in so many foods because its inexpensive.
"Corn is found in 3 out of 4 supermarket products; there are more than 3,500 different uses for corn products. U.S. corn crop acreage, put together, would cover all of Germany
Consumption of corn sweetener in the U.S. increased 387 percent between 1970 and 2005, to 77.4 lbs from 15.9 lbs.
Corn subsidies in the United States totaled $81.7 billion from 1995-2011. Corn draws in more subsidies than wheat, soybeans and rice combined
Americans consume one-third of all corn produced in the world"
The body cannot metabolize High fructose corn syrup like cain sugar so results are hunger and weight gain. The lies the corn profiteers spread are not unlike the tobacco industries'. It also has many chemicals and toxins.
I was a born-again christian for many years then I got woke.. and now life is better in so many ways. It's taking me time to see my value and find my voice, but the reward is liberating knowing my path is not dictated or controlled by fear of death and the unknown.  Casting off the shackles of religion is pretty fucking awesome. The beautiful people I've met on this forum have more heart and compassion than any group of people I've been apart of. So back off Jesus and followers, because this bitch is done with Chu.  Shy 
  
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RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
The problem is that people don't have active lifestyles. If your lifestyle involved daily exercise, and I mean real exercise, not going on a walk, it would be impossible to be obese.
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RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
(June 8, 2017 at 12:16 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: The problem is that people don't have active lifestyles. If your lifestyle involved daily exercise, and I mean real exercise, not going on a walk, it would be impossible to be obese.

Your right. Many people could exercise daily and change their health, but some people can do no more than go for a walk, if that. Certain disabilities, diseases, mental illness or just plain time makes it difficult if not impossible. Thats why the foods we eat or don't eat are so important. 
I think americas obsession with body image has become its own epidemic in young girls. I was not overweight, but curvier than my fellow middle school stick body friends. I was constantly focused on my body. Mom was always on a diet, and if you ask me or my 2 sisters we all know her goal weight. Its 118 lbs, which is what she was at 17 fuckin years old. My parents paid for me to join Jenny Craig diet 13. It took me years to be happy with my body image and now I focus less on dieting, and more on feeling healthy. Much happier Smile
I was a born-again christian for many years then I got woke.. and now life is better in so many ways. It's taking me time to see my value and find my voice, but the reward is liberating knowing my path is not dictated or controlled by fear of death and the unknown.  Casting off the shackles of religion is pretty fucking awesome. The beautiful people I've met on this forum have more heart and compassion than any group of people I've been apart of. So back off Jesus and followers, because this bitch is done with Chu.  Shy 
  
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RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
For most working people, finding time to exercise is a dilemma.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
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RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
(June 8, 2017 at 12:16 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: The problem is that people don't have active lifestyles. If your lifestyle involved daily exercise, and I mean real exercise, not going on a walk, it would be impossible to be obese.

That's bs. Resection shows activity has little impact on obesity. You burn too few calories even with high levels of activity.
The difference in calories burned from a sedate person to an active person is less than that of a single small milkshake. There a plenty of heavy people who garden, walk, and even do daily high activity things like zumba. This strikes me as more stereotyping that fat people are lazy, and its demonstrably false.

That being said, activity has a high impact on overall health, which is why active overweight folks can be in better cardiac health than a sedate person who is at their recommended bmi.

It's mostly about what you eat. Calories matter, and how you get those calories matter, when gaining and losing weight.
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RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
"Fat acceptance" has a generally suspicious tone to it.

Most of these "movements" at the end of the day require you to just not be an asshole. I'd get behind a movement called "Don't be a bitch/dick" but "fat acceptance" has a strange tone to it. I'm not going to "accept" fat, I'm not going to go out of my way to shame someone either but that doesn't mean I have to accept being fat is either attractive or healthy, at least for my own personal taste, it just doesn't work for me. I have no intention to brainwash little kids that eating unhealthy is attractive or healthy.

Besides, nobody is going to shame a person with an unhealthy weight that is trying to eat better or go to the gym and improve themselves. However, if I saw a kid with a healthy weight and healthy food habits take on unhealthy food habits I'd definitely shame, I don't know why but I'd definitely do it. If I knew a fat person that doesn't put any effort into getting to a healthy weight but complains about being fat as if it is completely out of their control, I'd probably shame them too.

Effort matters, if someone is putting in the effort to get better they deserve encouragement but if someone is wallowing in self pity, creating a negative environment for others around them and at the same time not doing anything to make their lives better I'd consider them annoying and probably shame them in the hopes of them putting in effort to better themselves.
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(June 7, 2017 at 10:19 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(June 7, 2017 at 5:24 am)Nymphadora Wrote: Not sure if this was already mentioned (didn't feel like wading through 8 pages of back and forth to find out) but....

Not everyone that is obese is that way because they ate too much. There are medical conditions which cause people to be obese.

Being stressed out can cause someone to gain weight.
Having insomnia or not getting enough sleep can attribute to weight gain.
Psychological trauma that leads to someone using food to comfort oneself, can lead to weight gain. And yes - while food is there, it is NOT the main factor or cause. It is the catalyst. The trauma is the main factor.

There are medicines that cause people to gain weight. I work with a person who is on chemo and steroids for an auto-immune disorder that I can't even pronounce. It causes her to gain weight. People keep asking her when her baby is due. She's not pregnant. Her youngest is six years old. But so that she can live, she has to take a pill form of chemo, daily.

People need to consider all the reasons to why someone is obese and not just contribute it to over-eating or eating the wrong thing.

While it is true these two things can result in weight gain, the mechanism of action in both cases is still over-consumption.

Are there numbers for that because I don't eat much at all and I am stressed out and have insomnia. And I'm still fat. And I don't think I'm the only exception to that rule.
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(November 14, 2018 at 8:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Have a good day at work.  If we ever meet in a professional setting, let me answer your question now.  Yes, I DO want fries with that.
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RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
JamieB Wrote:I think a major problem is High Fructose Corn Syrup. Its used in so many foods because its inexpensive.
"Corn is found in 3 out of 4 supermarket products; there are more than 3,500 different uses for corn products. U.S. corn crop acreage, put together, would cover all of Germany
Consumption of corn sweetener in the U.S. increased 387 percent between 1970 and 2005, to 77.4 lbs from 15.9 lbs.
Corn subsidies in the United States totaled $81.7 billion from 1995-2011. Corn draws in more subsidies than wheat, soybeans and rice combined
Americans consume one-third of all corn produced in the world"
The body cannot metabolize High fructose corn syrup like cain sugar so results are hunger and weight gain. The lies the corn profiteers spread are not unlike the tobacco industries'. It also has many chemicals and toxins.

You can thank US sugar lobbies for keeping sugar prices high enough for corn syrup to be more economical (through protectionist policies). Sugar in America costs about triple what it does on the world market.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
(June 8, 2017 at 9:47 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:
JamieB Wrote:I think a major problem is High Fructose Corn Syrup. Its used in so many foods because its inexpensive.
"Corn is found in 3 out of 4 supermarket products; there are more than 3,500 different uses for corn products. U.S. corn crop acreage, put together, would cover all of Germany
Consumption of corn sweetener in the U.S. increased 387 percent between 1970 and 2005, to 77.4 lbs from 15.9 lbs.
Corn subsidies in the United States totaled $81.7 billion from 1995-2011. Corn draws in more subsidies than wheat, soybeans and rice combined
Americans consume one-third of all corn produced in the world"
The body cannot metabolize High fructose corn syrup like cain sugar so results are hunger and weight gain. The lies the corn profiteers spread are not unlike the tobacco industries'. It also has many chemicals and toxins.

You can thank US sugar lobbies for keeping sugar prices high enough for corn syrup to be more economical (through protectionist policies). Sugar in America costs about triple what it does on the world market.

Wow! That is insane.
I was a born-again christian for many years then I got woke.. and now life is better in so many ways. It's taking me time to see my value and find my voice, but the reward is liberating knowing my path is not dictated or controlled by fear of death and the unknown.  Casting off the shackles of religion is pretty fucking awesome. The beautiful people I've met on this forum have more heart and compassion than any group of people I've been apart of. So back off Jesus and followers, because this bitch is done with Chu.  Shy 
  
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