'Fat but fit is a big fat myth' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39936138

Finally someone has the courage to say this.

It started to look like self-esteem was about to trump health

 

Speaking of Trump health, he has self-esteem despite being a big lard ass. Now having said this, I feel courageous too. He should start walking the links or he may be found face down in his taco bowl.

 

The article is based on an unpublished study done in the U.K. I refer back to the 1998 article published by the U.S. National Institute for Health; wherein BMI on its own is an unreliable indicator of ones risk of disease.

 

So far today you have divulged that you are fat, unfit both physically and mentally, that you have ADHD and are an attention whore. Any more revelations to share?

 

Overweight is still tied to unnecessary increases in cardiovascular health and two diabetes and even to impotence . Women seem to be able to overcome some of these bad effects to certain hormonal balance as it seems that estrogen has a beneficial effect for some reason .

In any case overweight should be avoided and I think that Michelle Obama did the country of service by bringing this to the nations attention .

So I will give credit to where it is due

 

The last 4-5 friends I have lost was due more to starvation. Especially as they age people I know have a problem of being underweight.
When person gets sick they loose weight. If you have more weight to loose you will live longer than people who start out sick already skinny.
I talked yesterday to the wife of a friend who dies last month. He was slim built, about 6' and 160lbs.
When he died he was 75lbs. Just bones and skin.

 

My father was something like 80 pounds when he died from a glioblastoma. Give me a stroke or heart attack any day. I wouldn't want to live like he did for five years.

 

Yes and my father died of prostate cancer and he didn't weigh much more than that .

But I'm trying to figure out why the United States is the fattest country in the world . At least in the industrial world .

And I think it's a false choice to say that we can be fat and die of strokes or heart attacks or we can be thin and die of other diseases . First of all the second isn't even true and people who Are overweight have no protection against these other diseases due to being overweight . It just increases their chances for strokes and heart diseases .

Sadly a stroke or heart attack will not necessarily kill you anyway but can make life quite miserable

 

It is very simple. The people in the U.S. are fat because of the supply of food available at a cheap price.

 

Such food is also available in Canada and Western Europe. In my experience The food is quite comparable in price .

It's a question of a lack of discipline .

 

The farmers of America export food products to other countries so they can have food comparable in price.

 

My experiences in Europe were that most of the food products are locally grown .

But it doesn't matter anyway because the point is that the food is available at a decent cost which is often subsidized by the governments there.

Europeans for the most part don't choose to eat as much .

When asked why diets fail Americans will generally say that they don't want to feel deprived.

Europeans appear to have a different relationship to food and realize that there's a difference between being hungry and starving. So they generally have smaller portions and tend to eat more healthily

 

Most of the people I have known in other countries are slimmer because of the lack of food and the cost. When they get an adequate amount of food at a decent price they become the same as the people in America, over weight.

 

I guess my experience is just been different .

 

There are exceptions to everything. My sister is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 135. She stopped eating red meat, doesn't drink, works out at a gym and has taken up running. She is also on medication for high cholesterol and high blood pressure. That's from my father's side of the family. My mother is 5 feet 3 inches and probably about 175-180 pounds. She takes no medication for anything. Here she is in her 70's, overweight, doesn't exercise, eats red meat and loves her wine. No high blood pressure, no high cholesterol, post menopausal and happy as a clam. Tell me who is costing the insurance company more...my sister or my mother.

 

Many of the members of my family on both sides live to be 100 years old.
There are no tall slim people in my family history and damn sure not any vegetarians. I did have a sister that tried for a while. She finally had to eat some meat.
It is my plan to live to be 100 then decide it I want to go any farther.
I haven't decided if I want to go for the record.

 

Fit...I'm doing a 12 ounce curl right now.

 

I'm happy that your family has found a Health .

But statistically there are very few centenarians that are overweight .

 

I can name quite a few just in my family. Really not a lot of centenarians anyway.
I haven't seen any skinny ones either.

 

My great grand father died at 112 and he was rail thin but he was also an alcoholic chewed and smoked tobacco and ate lard on a regular basis. And saddest of all he lived most of his children .

Centenarians are the fastest-growing demographic in the United States right now.

Here's an interesting article on the subject

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...68/Stay-trim-and-have-children-to-be-100.html