A registered dietician will probably try to push “heart healthy”, whole grain pasta and a lot of “heart healthy” low-fat breads and cereals onto him as an alternative. I think most dieticians are shills for Big Food the same as most doctors are shills for Big Pharma. I’ve been doing Keto for 5.5 years and haven’t met a dietician yet that advocates it over the failed government food pyramid.
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Guvnah
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For the average person, true.
But elite athletes often consume 10,000 calories a day when they are at peak training (and maintain single-digit body fat content.) Look up Michael Phelps during his olympic years for an example.
Nobody here is someone like that though.
Guntsu
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This was my school lunch experience as a kid in the 90’s, my elementary school partnered with Pizza Hut too and they would provide free mini pizza’s as a reward for things like reading, writing.
At my kids school’s they have PE, in middle they still change into their PE clothes and do traditional PE program.
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Dem
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Oh man! I remember the pizza hut partnerships! We would get coupons we could take to Pizza Hut anytime we completed a certain number of books. I made good use of that system.
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We can play that game no matter what my costs are. Think of the young healthy couple paying the exact same for health care as me and my wife pay. Should they be upset about paying that? Or be happy they pay much less than most people?
I am only referring to young people mainly middle school and high school which one of our daughters is in. I agree with people that there are fattening foods everywhere, my only point is that these same fatty foods were everywhere when I was in Highschool as well so it has to be more than just more fattening food available. We just had our 20 year class reunion last August I know I am middle aged but not enough time has elapsed for the expansion of the waists that has come since. This has been an enormous dare I say seismic shift in weight gain in the past decade.
And not only has weight increased majorly but the speed of the increase. If we were talking 5 pounds every 15 years of extra weight I would kind of get it but I am referring to what I have seen in just the last let’s say 12 years where it has went from most young people being thin to full out half the class looking like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
You said obesity prevalence doesn’t cost you anything.
I illustrated it costs you something.
This is not debatable.
DMK
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No, their parents choose for them. There is nothing you or I can do about people who chose poor diets for themselves (and to your point, for their children).
I said in an earlier post, healthy eating habits starts with the parents.
I didn’t say it didn’t cost me anything. I said it didn’t have any impact on me. Not counting kids jobs, I entered the workforce in 1986. Up until 2009 I had 0 premium. Were there no fat people then? How much of that 0 was I paying for fat people? In 2009 I had to start putting 25 bucks a month toward my premium. Would it have been 23 bucks if not for fat people? Am I supposed to care?
Fat people aren’t the reason I’m paying premiums. I’m not going to worry about the little extra they cost on an already low bill. Besides, starting last year I can write off my health care cost.
SixFoot
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Everyone knows that socialists eat less. 
SixFoot
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My eating habits as far as healthy is concerned are terrible. Yet I am not fat. I don’t eat sweets of any kind, cakes, candy, chocolate, none of it, and I don’t eat fast food. But not because it’s unhealthy, but because I don’t like that crap.
But fried foods, chili, bacon cheeseburgers, french fries, cheese steaks, you name it, I’m eating it. I’ve been doing that my entire life and yet I am not a fatbody. I don’t care about trans fats, or whatever oil is used. The better it tastes is the path I use. I probably eat some type of ground beef or fried food 95% of the time.
Enjoy COVID-19 restrictions?
The obese are more prone to the virus and a poorer outcome than normal weight patients:
Maybe the O P is right to notice obese children in particular. They’re being set up for serious health problems from the start & most likely, even if he may not have been at elevated risk for a poor outcome, at the beginning of the pandemic his movements probably were somewhat restricted by shutdowns to protect the elderly and infirm—which includes the obese.
There were more cancer diagnoses and at a later stage in 2021 than in 2020 due to “”inessential doctor visits are discouraged”. If restrictions to protect groups including obese prevented him from accessing preventive care, he has every right to be upset and demand they get a grip.
Publius
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If you’re drinking half-ounce shots. Unfortunately, a standard 1-1/2 ounce shot of Jack is 100 calories.
Publius
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I didn’t know it at the time (found it out more recently talking to the food service staff during a homecoming visit), but the standard diet at the service academy I attended was 6,000+ calories a day the first summer. As far as I can recall from 45+ years ago, there wasn’t much weight gain going on.
Samm
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There is a pattern, but not as you suggest.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/04/12/democrats-are-more-likely-than-republicans-or-independents-to-blame-genetics-for-obesity-including-their-own/
There is also this:
W_and_C
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Huh. Maybe read your source a little bit closer. Your chart does not show what you say it does. Hint - read the text at the very left of that chart.
What restrictions? There are no restrictions where I live. The only thing I do differently from the pre Covid era is if I travel. I don’t travel anywhere that has restrictions.
