Has anyone else noticed the propensity for Iowa women to weigh in the 220 - 320 pound range? Try going into a Wal-Mart and look for skinny people. What gives?
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I have honestly seen that in most every state. Only place I have seen very few chubby people was in Charlotte NC. Only because the climate is milder than Iowa and those people aren't too lazy to walk. People here will drive around the block 3 times to see if a stall one spot closer to the front door of a business opens up.
I guess I just can't accept your sentiment that Iowa is no different. This place has to be the hoveround capital of the world.
Even teenagers around here are obese and claim that genetically there is nothing they can do about it. I know a lady who refuses to exercise because it makes her sweat - we can't have that!
If you have truly looked around, you will be forced to admit that Iowan women might hold the record for average per capita poundage.
Ohhh Im not disputing it. Plenty of corn fed heifers here in IA, especially Jtown. Several sows also. Its probably much more fun to sit down and eat a full meal and a box of chocolates instead of doing anything that requires more than pushing buttons on a remote.
What I can't stand is that they look you straight in the eyeball and aim their carts right at you. When you move your cart as far away from them as possible, they stop, still in your way, and stare at toilet paper or plastic bags, or maybe a 12 pack of bratwurst. These women own Walmart, and they know it. I could give you a link on the territory instincts of these women, but Rick will not allow it.
I'm being told by an Iowan that Wisconsin holds the current record for fattest citizens. Because this is a neighboring midwestern state, that could be true.
What I got from that brief conversation, however, is just more typical Iowan spin. She fails to mention that Iowa probably ranks second or third.
In other words, it is easier to find some one worse off than you are than to address the problem. Instead of comparing yourself to Wisconsin, Iowans might be better off comparing themselves to healthier, more attractive areas.
These grossly overweight Wal-Mart customers refuse to budge even an inch when you need to pass them in the aisle. They actually appear to be pleased with themselves when they make you back up and select another aisle.
Don't these people realize that being fat costs all of us billions of dollars for health care every year?
Go to a buffet-style restaurant (which abound in Iowa) and you'll find that almost every female patron is massively obese and yet insist on eating at a place where they can shovel food in their mouths non-stop all afternoon for $7.99!! They don't even pretend to be watching their weight!
If it wasn't for alcohol, I don't think anyone in Iowa would be married.
At the Golden Corral, 1 plate is satisfying, 2 tastes great, 3 requires a nap, 4 and you "can't believe you ate the whole thing." Please feel free to read this one plate at a time.
The waist size of an average man during the Depression was 31 inches. Now the average man gains a pound each year from age 25 to 50. Women at the end of WW II spent 7 hours a day preparing food. The outside perimeter of a grocery store generally contains the healthier, less processed food items-produce, meat, and dairy. Americans ofttimes mistake thirst for hunger and eat. If we'd take care of the incessant brainworm problem in Jefferson's water supply, perhaps more would flush their system properly with the beneficial fruits of good, old H2O. The size of a soda at a drive up/fast food joint in the 50's was 7 oz. Watching TV is ready-made for munching. Walking 1 mile a day for a month allows you to lose a pound. Your activity level sitting is the same as lying down sleeping.
I believe some in the food industry, with their own profits and career interests in mind, have doctored processed food so consumers eat more. Busy lifestyles and two income families sometimes make have us making food choices based on convenience to the detriment of nutrition. This is Living 101 in 2009.
Salty, sugary, diet pop and food whet the appetite for more of the same. I've heard, and believe, that the HIgh Fructose Corn Syrup which was put into pop when sugar prices spiked in the mid 1970's, bypasses the brain's measuring apparatus which tells us we are full. I was mystified how people 40 years ago were full drinking 10,12 or 16 oz. of pop, while now they consume 32, 44, or 64 oz. In our heavily regulated society, the FDA missed this one, and it has cost us for 30 years, says the Monday Morning Quarterback. I need backup confirmation on the High Fructose Corn Syrup thing. I shot from the hip and do not know just where I read that.
There is not an easy solution to the ADHD problem in children. I think one component is the highly processed and sugar-filled foods. Who here believes sugar doesn't amp up the voltage for children and adults alike?
Psalm 139 states that our body's are fearfully and wonderfully made by God. Our body was designed to be fueled by good healthy food to lead productive lives. Fruits, and especially vegetables, promote enzymes and good bacteria in our gut which antibiotics are designed to destroy like Roundup to weeds in a field.
I'm 30 pounds overweight. I talk a better game than I live.
Read more about it- "Sugar Blues" and "Fast Food Nation." Watch the movie "Super Size Me" a documentary by Morgan Spurlock. Sorry mom, this is about as deep as I get into believing liberal prattle. I'm guessing some here disagree. Let the games begin!
It's easy to blame all the poor dietary habits we have. Unfortunately, people have been eating poorly for many, many generations.
When I was growing up, kids ate candy, and sugar was liberally added to anything we wanted. We ate a lot of potatoes and starchy foods. I can't imagine a meal without meat.
That is not the main source of our fatness.
Since about 1950 or 1960, we keep getting fatter. Guess what happened back then that changed our lives and caused obesity. That's right - TV!!
All these fat slobs sit around in front of their TV's (and later, computers) when in the past they would have been working around the house or in their gardens or doing chores. They would have gone to a football game instead of watching it on TV.
Get people to quit spending every waking hour watching "The Young and Restless" or "Love Boat" reruns and get out and do SOMETHING!!
I think stonehead is on to something with his reference to the advent of the tv age. It is amazing how poorly you can eat and get away with it as long as you are exercising enough.
I actually know of one of our staff members who is a strict vegetarian, yet manages to remain overweight.
I agree again with stonehead about TV's effect on people's activity levels (and appetites).
I disagree about the terrible eating habits of so many past generations. Food used to take a considerably bigger part of a person's budget. Terrible foods were not as common.
I asked a Rwandan friend about American's weight. Mechanization, junky foods, portions and carcass comatosis were credited.
About 1 in 3 AFS gals in high school would gain 40 pounds in a year. I believe the above reasons apply.
Although I agree with Diamond Dave's sentiment, I need to comment briefly on stonehead's reference to poor eating habits.
Perhaps Dave's family was very frugal and limited themselves to purchasing only nutritional foods. Maybe his mom didn't do much baking. You see, in a lot of families, a generation or two ago, people lived on farms.
Farm families, like mine, ate very well. As a child, we were bombarded with homemade cookies, cakes, and pies. There was a steady supply of candy, and as a child we were allowed to eat as much of it as we wanted. We added sugar liberally to our cereal. We had ice cream every day.
Nobody thought twice about eating all this sugar, along with generous proportions of fried foods, gravy, and rolls. All this food was exercised off.
Today we would not be allowed to eat like that. We know that fried foods and sugar, for example, are not nutritionally sound.
I realize that there are many more opportunities today to waste your money on nutritionally suspect foods. That is simply a fact. Also, people have more disposable income available.
However, people today also have much more information available to them on this subject. Back then we didn't. Today, I might spend a few bucks at Burger King for lunch. My grandpa would probably have some fried chicken, potatoes with extra gravy, a piece of apple pie, and stick three or four candy bars in his pocket for a snack. I don't see that he was eating better than I.
Overall, I'm sure people eat more junk food today. But in the past people ate poorly based on what we know today, too. When people limit themselves to regular, planned meals, they are most likely eating better than a lot of our ancestors did.
It doesn't get any better than fried pork chops, homemade mashed potatoes, and broccoli dripping with real butter. You only go around once, and I would just as soon go around with a nice ribeye sandwich.
The reference to the idea that people ate better in the past due to the fact that it took more of their income to buy food flies in the face of emerging evidence that poorer people are known to have worse dietary habits than people who are well-off.
What the #$@% is up with this "emerging evidence" line of crap? Where did it "emerge" from? Unless you are so poor that you eat anything you find because you are so freaking hungry, then go back and sleep in the dumpster some more, after you huff a can of afrosheen hairdo you stole, none of this makes any sense. People who are less well off have no choice other than to eat cheaper foods, like vegetables and potatoes, with smaller portions of more expensive meat items. They are more likely to eat soups or stews, combining food groups in a healthy meal. Poor people do not eat Krispy Kreme donuts with a Starbucks loaded chaser for breakfast, and do not do the Wendy's Baconator for lunch. This guys entire "emerging evidence" line is lame to say the least.
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I have honestly seen that in most every state. Only place I have seen very few chubby people was in Charlotte NC. Only because the climate is milder than Iowa and those people aren't too lazy to walk. People here will drive around the block 3 times to see if a stall one spot closer to the front door of a business opens up.
Anonymous -
All around the country people are gaining weight.
I guess I just can't accept your sentiment that Iowa is no different. This place has to be the hoveround capital of the world.
Even teenagers around here are obese and claim that genetically there is nothing they can do about it. I know a lady who refuses to exercise because it makes her sweat - we can't have that!
If you have truly looked around, you will be forced to admit that Iowan women might hold the record for average per capita poundage.
Ohhh Im not disputing it. Plenty of corn fed heifers here in IA, especially Jtown. Several sows also. Its probably much more fun to sit down and eat a full meal and a box of chocolates instead of doing anything that requires more than pushing buttons on a remote.
What I can't stand is that they look you straight in the eyeball and aim their carts right at you. When you move your cart as far away from them as possible, they stop, still in your way, and stare at toilet paper or plastic bags, or maybe a 12 pack of bratwurst. These women own Walmart, and they know it. I could give you a link on the territory instincts of these women, but Rick will not allow it.
I'm being told by an Iowan that Wisconsin holds the current record for fattest citizens. Because this is a neighboring midwestern state, that could be true.
What I got from that brief conversation, however, is just more typical Iowan spin. She fails to mention that Iowa probably ranks second or third.
In other words, it is easier to find some one worse off than you are than to address the problem. Instead of comparing yourself to Wisconsin, Iowans might be better off comparing themselves to healthier, more attractive areas.
Marty -
These grossly overweight Wal-Mart customers refuse to budge even an inch when you need to pass them in the aisle. They actually appear to be pleased with themselves when they make you back up and select another aisle.
Don't these people realize that being fat costs all of us billions of dollars for health care every year?
Go to a buffet-style restaurant (which abound in Iowa) and you'll find that almost every female patron is massively obese and yet insist on eating at a place where they can shovel food in their mouths non-stop all afternoon for $7.99!! They don't even pretend to be watching their weight!
If it wasn't for alcohol, I don't think anyone in Iowa would be married.
How about those fat chicks that always ride on the back of Harleys? Aren't those bikes heavy enough?
At the Golden Corral, 1 plate is satisfying, 2 tastes great, 3 requires a nap, 4 and you "can't believe you ate the whole thing."
Please feel free to read this one plate at a time.
The waist size of an average man during the Depression was 31 inches. Now the average man gains a pound each year from age 25 to 50. Women at the end of WW II spent 7 hours a day preparing food. The outside perimeter of a grocery store generally contains the healthier, less processed food items-produce, meat, and dairy.
Americans ofttimes mistake thirst for hunger and eat. If we'd take care of the incessant brainworm problem in Jefferson's water supply, perhaps more would flush their system properly with the beneficial fruits of good, old H2O. The size of a soda at a drive up/fast food joint in the 50's was 7 oz. Watching TV is ready-made for munching. Walking 1 mile a day for a month allows you to lose a pound. Your activity level sitting is the same as lying down sleeping.
I believe some in the food industry, with their own profits and career interests in mind, have doctored processed food so consumers eat more. Busy lifestyles and two income families sometimes make have us making food choices based on convenience to the detriment of nutrition. This is Living 101 in 2009.
Salty, sugary, diet pop and food whet the appetite for more of the same. I've heard, and believe, that the HIgh Fructose Corn Syrup which was put into pop when sugar prices spiked in the mid 1970's, bypasses the brain's measuring apparatus which tells us we are full. I was mystified how people 40 years ago were full drinking 10,12 or 16 oz. of pop, while now they consume 32, 44, or 64 oz. In our heavily regulated society, the FDA missed this one, and it has cost us for 30 years, says the Monday Morning Quarterback. I need backup confirmation on the High Fructose Corn Syrup thing. I shot from the hip and do not know just where I read that.
There is not an easy solution to the
ADHD problem in children. I think one component is the highly processed and sugar-filled foods. Who here believes sugar doesn't amp up the voltage for children and adults alike?
Psalm 139 states that our body's are fearfully and wonderfully made by God. Our body was designed to be fueled by good healthy food to lead productive lives. Fruits, and especially vegetables, promote enzymes and good bacteria in our gut which antibiotics are designed to destroy like Roundup to weeds in a field.
I'm 30 pounds overweight. I talk a better game than I live.
Read more about it- "Sugar Blues" and "Fast Food Nation."
Watch the movie "Super Size Me" a documentary by Morgan Spurlock.
Sorry mom, this is about as deep as I get into believing liberal prattle. I'm guessing some here disagree. Let the games begin!
It's easy to blame all the poor dietary habits we have. Unfortunately, people have been eating poorly for many, many generations.
When I was growing up, kids ate candy, and sugar was liberally added to anything we wanted. We ate a lot of potatoes and starchy foods. I can't imagine a meal without meat.
That is not the main source of our fatness.
Since about 1950 or 1960, we keep getting fatter. Guess what happened back then that changed our lives and caused obesity. That's right - TV!!
All these fat slobs sit around in front of their TV's (and later, computers) when in the past they would have been working around the house or in their gardens or doing chores. They would have gone to a football game instead of watching it on TV.
Get people to quit spending every waking hour watching "The Young and Restless" or "Love Boat" reruns and get out and do SOMETHING!!
I think stonehead is on to something with his reference to the advent of the tv age. It is amazing how poorly you can eat and get away with it as long as you are exercising enough.
I actually know of one of our staff members who is a strict vegetarian, yet manages to remain overweight.
I agree again with stonehead about TV's effect on people's activity levels (and appetites).
I disagree about the terrible eating habits of so many past generations. Food used to take a considerably bigger part of a person's budget. Terrible foods were not as common.
I asked a Rwandan friend about American's weight. Mechanization, junky foods, portions and carcass comatosis were credited.
About 1 in 3 AFS gals in high school would gain 40 pounds in a year. I believe the above reasons
apply.
Although I agree with Diamond Dave's sentiment, I need to comment briefly on stonehead's reference to poor eating habits.
Perhaps Dave's family was very frugal and limited themselves to purchasing only nutritional foods. Maybe his mom didn't do much baking. You see, in a lot of families, a generation or two ago, people lived on farms.
Farm families, like mine, ate very well. As a child, we were bombarded with homemade cookies, cakes, and pies. There was a steady supply of candy, and as a child we were allowed to eat as much of it as we wanted. We added sugar liberally to our cereal. We had ice cream every day.
Nobody thought twice about eating all this sugar, along with generous proportions of fried foods, gravy, and rolls. All this food was exercised off.
Today we would not be allowed to eat like that. We know that fried foods and sugar, for example, are not nutritionally sound.
I realize that there are many more opportunities today to waste your money on nutritionally suspect foods. That is simply a fact. Also, people have more disposable income available.
However, people today also have much more information available to them on this subject. Back then we didn't. Today, I might spend a few bucks at Burger King for lunch. My grandpa would probably have some fried chicken, potatoes with extra gravy, a piece of apple pie, and stick three or four candy bars in his pocket for a snack. I don't see that he was eating better than I.
Overall, I'm sure people eat more junk food today. But in the past people ate poorly based on what we know today, too. When people limit themselves to regular, planned meals, they are most likely eating better than a lot of our ancestors did.
It doesn't get any better than fried pork chops, homemade mashed potatoes, and broccoli dripping with real butter. You only go around once, and I would just as soon go around with a nice ribeye sandwich.
The reference to the idea that people ate better in the past due to the fact that it took more of their income to buy food flies in the face of emerging evidence that poorer people are known to have worse dietary habits than people who are well-off.
What the #$@% is up with this "emerging evidence" line of crap? Where did it "emerge" from? Unless you are so poor that you eat anything you find because you are so freaking hungry, then go back and sleep in the dumpster some more, after you huff a can of afrosheen hairdo you stole, none of this makes any sense. People who are less well off have no choice other than to eat cheaper foods, like vegetables and potatoes, with smaller portions of more expensive meat items. They are more likely to eat soups or stews, combining food groups in a healthy meal. Poor people do not eat Krispy Kreme donuts with a Starbucks loaded chaser for breakfast, and do not do the Wendy's Baconator for lunch. This guys entire "emerging evidence" line is lame to say the least.
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