UK Has Fattest Women in Europe

reply to post by antonia


Hahaha

Yeh lets all go on the Atkins, how boring.

What will you replace those sugar calories you miss out on with? Wheres the fiber and other nutrients going to come from?

The BMI (Body Mass index) and BFI (Body Fat Index) is total and complete rubbish. You cannot apply an arbitrary set of numbers to the population as a whole.

I can show you a 300 professional bodybuilder with a completely healthy body system (I know, we've done tests at our facility) yet according to the BMI and BFI, he's overweight.

Here's another shocker...

The calorie out and calorie in theory has NEVER BEEN PROVEN. There is not one scientific study that indicates you give a group of people a set number of calories and they will gain or lose weight.

All nutrition stops at the mouth. Your endocrine system (hormones) control how your body partitions the nutrients you eat. Thats why you see fat folks try all these diets and go nowhere with them... yet if we adjust their hormone levels...BAM! they begin to lose the weight.

Remember Jerry Lewis gaining all that weight? Wasn't from his diet... his doctors put him on a clinical dose of prednasone. Altered his hormonal state and caused his body to begin partitioning nutrients to fat. Jerry went into rehab back in 2004, got off the prednasone and walla he lost the weight again.

Stop with the diets...your wasting your time if you have an issue with your hormones... and get this...if your over 30, you HAVE HORMONE ISSUES.

reply to post by wlasikiewicz


if there is to be a bright side to this post, the large people could vacation in america where their size will be barely noticed.

and america needs the tourists and the restaurants serve oversize servings of food.

if too large for an airplane come by boat and wellcome.

reply to post by tommyboytml


Actually, I am a custodian and I am always on my feet. I only sit down for a total of a hour a day.

Will you please just stop it already? You're looking like the bigger ass and all those fools that gave you a star are too cowardly to show themselves.

My wife is fat, but she can light up a room. Just by moving away from the window.

reply to post by JudgeDeath


You can't argue with surveys bud, they are as accurate as they come

reply to post by Morg234


I said nearly, I didn't say there were 22 million. But in saying that Australia is just as bad...

Yeah on council estates they are the fattest but don't forget they also have a sh!tty attitude, ugly and thick also.

reply to post by Domo1


I know! Where I work, me and this other girl are the only girls in the whole place who are not on weight watchers. It's annoying. When I eat something that is not particularly healthy, they talk a lot of crap to me. I have a pretty good metabolism and it pisses them off. A lot of them are really big and I think it's great they are trying to get healthy, but they are so freaking crabby all of the time. I want to shove a sandwich in their mouths because they are so mean and hungry.

BTW, I'm not bashing being healthy. I'm bashing starving yourself and being angry all of the time. They sit and pick at lettuce all day at work and I know that a bunch of them are bingeing at night because it doesn't look like most of them are losing any weight.

Mississippi....has the fattest people in the United States....here is an article about our fat people....

calorielab.com...

Originally posted by stephanies-chase
reply to post by Domo1

 

I know! Where I work, me and this other girl are the only girls in the whole place who are not on weight watchers. It's annoying. When I eat something that is not particularly healthy, they talk a lot of crap to me. I have a pretty good metabolism and it pisses them off. A lot of them are really big and I think it's great they are trying to get healthy, but they are so freaking crabby all of the time. I want to shove a sandwich in their mouths because they are so mean and hungry.

BTW, I'm not bashing being healthy. I'm bashing starving yourself and being angry all of the time. They sit and pick at lettuce all day at work and I know that a bunch of them are bingeing at night because it doesn't look like most of them are losing any weight.

Tell them to get their hormones checked via a blood test and have their doctor go over their results.

All nutrition and diets stop at the mouth... it is your hormones that control how your body partitions the nutrients you consume. Thats why you can eat things that aren't particularly healthy and stay relatively healthy and they eat lettuce all day and stay fat (regardless of binging or not).

Again, diets mean nothing... its all in how your hormones tell your body to partition the food you eat...yours seems to say "hey lets burn this for energy and void the reat and only keep a little for fat" while your co workers hormones say "OK, burn what you need for energy and the rest gets stored as fat"

Diagnostics are the key to recognizing you have a hormone issue and then can get treatment for it.... and news flas... if your over 30, your hormones are going to begin to be out of whack...

Originally posted by mr-lizard
I mean I could say all African women are stick thin, or all Japanese women are petite or all American women are big. This is not true.

Well it's not true because not only is it not true, but it's not even a stereotype.

I would love to know where in the world you live where African women are stereotyped as stick thing? AFrican women are stereotyped - quite accurately - as being thick and especially bottom heavy.

If you said African women were stick thin you'd be laughed out of existence because it's not just untrue, it's not even a stereotype that's ever existed

reply to post by wlasikiewicz

Hi, been following the site for a while but this is my first post.
I am sure in som part of the UK it is worse than others. I have lived in a few sea side towns in the North and also in cities and the rates seem to be higher in the sea side towns. I think it has become the norm and accepted which is quite sad.

The number one cause for obesity is inactivity, or eating more than you burn/use. We humans are still animals , and if you decide to live more or less in a chair for most the day, you must exercise. You can eat sugar and drink pop and wash it down with fast food and not get fat if can actually burn the calories you intake.

All i can say is LOL.

Didn't Brittish people accuse the U.S. of being fat a while back?

Poor diet + poor excersice= obesity and i would know because i'm 25 pounds overweight. I gotta start saying no to my wifes cooking. I'm not a picky eater, i can literally eat just about anything except anything with brains or any other organs in it. The blessed man is the man who can eat just about anything because he will never starve, on the contrast side of that, it makes it really easy to get fat. Sometimes its more curse than blessing.

reply to post by wlasikiewicz


Ha, that's funny.

2nd

I was born in 1971 and as I grew up I saw the transformation from a many slim population to a rather overweight population and more recently the appearance of many morbidly obese people.

In my school there were less than 10 overweight children (in the whole school), now obese children are everywhere (more often than not, belonging to obese parents).

For me the big change happened around 1980. It was around that time that McDonalds came to the UK, artificial sweeteners became common and many diet products appeared. I saw my mother slowly gain weight during this period, she spent a fortune on diet products.
I have seen many websites explaining how aspartame actually causes weight gain.

Crisps (potato chips) used to have mainly natural ingredients in the UK. Now it's really difficult to find them without chemicals like monosodium glutamate and the size the packets are now huge.

Ready meals also started to become more popular, they often contain more sugar, oil etc. than a freshly cooked meal to improve the taste which obviously increases the amount of calories consumed.

The fearmongering by the BBC propaganda outfit and others made people feel less safe than in the 70s when it was uneccessary to lock one's door in many places. Some parents didn't feel comfortable letting their children play outside so it became common for them to stay indoors playing their atari video games instead of riding their bikes.

British TV is better than most other countries, many popular shows are exported all over the globe. It has become most people's favourite pastime to watch it after work or at weekends. Until 1982, there were only 3 channels which operated from around 8-9am until 11:30 - 12pm. Most people would go to bed and sleep regular hours due to these limitations.
From the early 80s the TV channels added transmission hours, satellite and cable TV channels appeared until eventually hundreds of TV channels became available 24 hours per day. So people would stay awake later and eat snacks or have a fourth meal (supper).

Now it is possible to be completely inactive, working from home is possible, many jobs are done by working in front of computers, it is easy to order fast food without going out to buy it, Video games have replaced real sport for some chldren.
Binge drinking cheap beer, and eating a late night kebab have also added to the problem. (This is a typical night out for most young Brits)

Based on my observation, I think that it is a combination of some or all these things that have contributed to the UK obesity problem.

I've been the same weight all my adult life. I have a natural aversion to processed foods and enjoy cooking. It is a fallacy that healthy foods are more expensive - the processed ready mead meals are more expensive by far. I pack of potatoes, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 pack of mince will feed 6 ppl for under a tenner. It tastes better too. A home made pot of soup is the best, most nutritious, cheapest and easiest of all.

But I don't think my weight stability comes from my diet - it comes from the gymnastics, martial arts, cross country running, and swimming that I did as a kid....then there was the skipping, hop scotch, tag, hide and seek etc played with friends. The fitness gained then has stayed with me my whole life....even thru times of enforced inactivity as an adult.

We've got to get our kids out playing again...and we've got to start cooking again.

In France all they do is talk about food. 'What did you eat last night?' 'How did you prepare it?' etc....it's a healthy obsession for them.

Oh yeah....and I grow my own veg - organically. Can't get cheaper than that

Fast foods in themselves are not the cause IF the people who eat them treat it as a

meal rather than something to sustain them between meals! If people ate three meals a

day *breakfast, *lunch, and * evening meal, Why are the fast food restaurants full ALL of

the time?

reply to post by christina-66


When you have ready meals for £1 each you start to see why they are cheaper. An apple pie (very little apple) 69p, you try cooking that cheaper.

I totally disagree that buying the ingredients is cheaper than buying a ready meal. It's also much much quicker for people that have decided they don't have the time to cook. Cooking and I mean real cooking is becoming a lost art, just placing ready meals in a microwave these days is regarded as cooking.

My grandmother used to cook us an apple pie each weekend. Peeling and boiling apples, creating the pastry herself they were lovely. Now people think they cooked it themselves if they buy pastry and a tin of cooked apples.