just an inch below average. not bad.
Allan
Awesome…
The best I can do is kneed a bread dough 50 times. 
The answer is, government subsidized high fructose corn syrup.
Also, this isn’t a female issue. Men are fat in this country too.
Remember when Michelle Obama tried to make public school lunches healthy?
Good times.
That’s not the federal government’s job.
I think a lot of it is fear and anxiety. I grew up in the 60s/70s in Detroit… We kids were out of the house by 9am and didnt return until the street lights came on. As a 9 year old I rode my bike more than three miles to a neighboring city (Grose Point) pool, where we would sneak in. Had no idea what house we would end up at to eat lunch. Dinner was eat as fast as possible to get back outside with friends.
Due to media and video games, todays kids are afraid to play in the backyard, much less the front yards. All they want to do is spend time on their phone. Very little activity in their lives at all compared to when I was young.
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lol. RFK jr.
Allan
I’m not a big fan.
Kids are no less lazy today than they were when I was a kid. They also don’t eat the same food that I did (well, mine do and none of them are fat lol).
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Yeah, that is a good idea. I still think that the morbid obesity crisis goes way beyond that I think this newer generations wouldn’t stop with Michelle Obama‘s good lunch and eat 17 more meals after that.
I don’t know what the exact problem is, but it involves eating a lot more food.
The biggest problem is the huge amount of calories in cheap food and soda.
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Fat never made any of you people fat. Calories never made any of you people fat.
The SUGAR is the reason you can’t see your lonely little … toes. 
You simply eat too much sugar. Bread, pasta, corn syrup, fructose, cane sugar, maltodextrin, agave, etc…
You most likely don’t eat enough protein either, or fiber.
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I grew up in the 70s and early 80s. We were nonstop too. Kids were playing in open fields and on the streets daily. I don’t see that anymore.
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The kids that lived through it hate her to this day.
They could have fed us anything when I was a kid. There was zero chance we could get fat. The only thing that slowed us down was the pouring rain. But we didn’t have alternate entertainment.
I grew up on one of these.
Heck I think we got in fight with that gang once.
(They made fun or our coaster breaks)
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What are coaster breaks? Do you mean brakes? I still never heard of them.
I remember those type bikes, but they were going out of style, replaced by motorcross bikes like Redline and others. The only bikes I ever had with hand brakes were 10 or 12 speeds. All others had backward pedal brakes.
When I was around 10 or 11 in the late 70s, my mother bought me a bike that was made to look like a motorcycle. It was 100 bucks. I had no real concept of money. I can still remember my father’s shock when she told him.
Bikes either have hand brakes (as shown)
or coaster brakes where you brake by peddling backwards.
Coaster brake bikes don’t have gears (1-speed)
Those bikes are great for jumping, dirt riding etc. but super lousy for longer trips
(at kid speed, even more than a couple of blocks and you’ll wish you had gears.)
Ok, I never knew them as coaster brakes. But that’s what I normally rode. The bike I was talking about had a horrible gear. The one gear it had was equal to 8th gear on a 10 speed bike. The good thing about it, I never lost a long distance race. Once it got going, I would pass anyone. But riding up hills was pretty rough.
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I have a huge problem with all these ‘theories’ about processed foods causing obesity.
And this. (OK, it’s a parody ad, but it’s based on a real customer who actually did this)
And this. (this one is way more balanced, tells some hidden secrets, and is a real good find overall)
Here’s my question: How much of the problem is processed foods, and how much of the problem is simply because we as Americans simply eat way too damned much?
Here’s the experiment I propose: Pit 3 diets.
- Keto
- Vegan
- B******t food diet (junk food from a variety of places)
All 3 diets will have the same calorie content (about 2000 calories), and everyone MUST exercise 3 days a week on the same exercise plan (some kind of group workout where everyone is doing relatively the same exercises).
As part of the experiment, I will allow for supplementation and cheat meals (1 per week max) so we know the meals are nutritionally balanced. For example, diet 3 will come in a little short on fiber, so it’s OK to take Metamucil to keep people from spending hours on the toilet doing you know what. 
Blood work, weight ins, and fit test before, during, and after the experimental period.
Let’s see what the truth is once and for all.
