Obesity could hit economies as hard as malnutrition

[SoulManX]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061115/ts_nm/obesity_cost_dc

 

[Kyalesyin]

I nearly choked when I saw the photo with the article... holy cow. You could fit six of me in her trousers!

Not sure how they plan to tackle this problem though... food aid?

 

[ord0g]

Supersize me damn it!

 

[Hades]

Ha!

that's what you get, you silly fat americans

 

[Kyalesyin]

McTaxes?

 

[November Rain]

i always thought obesity was a form of malnutrition, just on the other side of the scale.

 

[Darthphere]

i always thought obesity was a form of malnutrition, just on the other side of the scale.

Good point.

 

[Kyalesyin]

Wouldn't that technically make it overnutrition?

 

[November Rain]

well mal mean 'bad' or gives that interpretation.

i've often heard obese or overweight people being described as being malnurished.

 

[SoulManX]

Bad food is cheap....good food not so cheap....

 

[DOG LIPS]

^ Yeah. I'm not sure about other places, but a good salad here costs more than a fat ass grease-burger. Subway is pretty expensive as well.

 

[redmarvel]

well mal mean 'bad' or gives that interpretation.

i've often heard obese or overweight people being described as being malnurished.

Indeed, many overweight people are under-nourished. They eat the WRONG foods in too high a quantity. They don't eat enough fruits & vegetables. They eat far too many chips, French Fries and other junk food (high in salt and cholesterol, low in vitamins)

 

[lazur]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061115/ts_nm/obesity_cost_dc

Until I saw that picture, I never actually felt sorry for an inanimate object before ... but that poor chair!

 

[Arcturus]

holy smokes, i think i can hear the metal giving under the weight just by looking at that picture! think of all that cooking grease.

 

[Halcohol]

Until I saw that picture, I never actually felt sorry for an inanimate object before ... but that poor chair!

I feel bad for anyone sitting within 10 ft of her when she finally gets on the plane

 

[maxwell's demon]

hmmn. maybe i should rethink my "everything that can be will be deep-fried" friendsgiving plans for this weekend.

 

[Halcohol]

hmmn. maybe i should rethink my "everything that can be will be deep-fried" friendsgiving plans for this weekend.

I've yet to try deep-fried turkey... I hear it's good, but every time I see it, it just looks like a heart attack waiting for me.

 

[Arcturus]

it is tempting though, isen't it?

 

[Immortalfire]

Subway is pretty expensive as well.

Never understood the claims that Subway is expensive

 

[Halcohol]

it is tempting though, isen't it?

I wouldn't want to end up like the lady previously mentioned... that's all that goes through my head when I see a deep-fryer. It's crazy, it's like some weird paradigm shift in my brain over the last year or so. Trying to eat healthy

 

[Halcohol]

Never understood the claims that Subway is expensive

Foot-long sub deal = ~$10
Value meal @ McD's = ~$5

It's relatively expensive... Quizno's is cheaper than Subway yet I still prefer the work done by those crazy Sandwich Artists anyways

 

[Arcturus]

I wouldn't want to end up like the lady previously mentioned... that's all that goes through my head when I see a deep-fryer. It's crazy, it's like some weird paradigm shift in my brain over the last year or so. Trying to eat healthy

Oh I agree, don't get me wrong. Eating Healthy is good for you.

No sense in clogging your heart with chunky grease.

 

[maxwell's demon]

I've yet to try deep-fried turkey... I hear it's good, but every time I see it, it just looks like a heart attack waiting for me.

true story: at my old job there was this place everyone used to order brerakfast from. they had a sandwwich called "the heartstopper". it was a fried egg on a buttered ,toasted bun- with three kinds of cheese, bacon, and two kinds of sausage, plus fried onions, mushrooms, and peppers.

Two of the guys in my office, both overweight, used to order it every day.
Both had heart attacks my first year there. for one guy it was his third in five years.

The one-heat-attack guy got a new job, so i don't know what happened to him after. but the three-heart-attack guy came back to work a few weeks later looking liek hell. he lost about ten pounds over the next month nad it looked liek maybe he'd finally gotten the message. then the next morning i saw him eating another heart stopper.

 

[Halcohol]

true story: at my old job there was this place everyone used to order brerakfast from. they had a sandwwich called "the heartstopper". it was a fried egg on a buttered ,toasted bun- with three kinds of cheese, bacon, and two kinds of sausage, plus fried onions, mushrooms, and peppers.

Two of the guys in my office, both overweight, used to order it every day.
Both had heart attacks my first year there. for one guy it was his third in five years.

The one-heat-attack guy got a new job, so i don't know what happened to him after. but the three-heart-attack guy came back to work a few weeks later looking liek hell. he lost about ten pounds over the next month nad it looked liek maybe he'd finally gotten the message. then the next morning i saw him eating another heart stopper.

Yet sadly enough, we have enough medical technology to prevent these kinds of people being eradicated by natural selection

 

[FOG3]

Subway is expensive if you order foot longs.

Portion size in this coutry is a big part of the problem too.