Results 1 to 30 of 51

Thread: How Fat Is Your State?

Threaded View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #11
    Master Procrastinator Member TevashSzat's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Location
    University of Pennsylvania
    Posts
    2,367

    Default Re: How Fat Is Your State?

    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II View Post
    Generally speaking the pinko welfare states of Europe score much lower (ca. 10%) than the U.S. - except for the UK where obesity is about 23%. Obesity is clearly in the Anglo-Saxon genes. You guys are born slobs.

    Anyone offended yet? Good, because my Socialist ethic is offended when poor people are blamed for obesity.

    I say let's dispatch this thread a.s.a.p. to the Backroom.
    Well, the view is not as much as that poor people are naturally inclined to be obese because since they're poor they're naturally lazy, but that cheap food is naturally less healthy. In America, those on welfare are on the lowest end of the socioeconomic ladder while the welfare states of Europe refer to a socialist government which does not necessarily imply a nation of the poor. Look at the cheap stuff: fast food, canned food, ect...they're all very unhealthy. If you go buy prepared food, salads often cost similarly if not more than the unhealthy stuff even if they aren't as fufilling to one's hunger.

    That means that its easier to think about eating healthy if you have the money to back up the wishes, but it is much much harder to do so when you're worried about putting food on the table
    Last edited by TevashSzat; 07-07-2008 at 22:08.
    "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Issac Newton

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
Single Sign On provided by vBSSO