"Dad told me this year that he couldn't believe the number of obese people he saw going back for 5th or 6th helpings."
Besides the major health issue, I find that behavior immoral (not that I'd ever say that to anyone IRL). It is so extremely selfish.
People are starving. It's a drain on nonrenewable resources to grow, ship, and store all that extra food.
While your waistline grows, so does society's burden to take care of you by paying your medical bills and disability and to your employers/coworkers who have to make up for your absences and decreased productivity.
I want to scream sometimes--what gives you the right to eat 6x as much as you're supposed to, at the expense of everyone else?
We all overeat from time to time, me included...but jeepers...6th helpings?
lol about Paula Deen. I make fun of her all the time. (There are some "chefs" on the Food Network whose talent brought them well-deserved celebrity status as much as Paris Hilton's did!) I don't think it takes talent to bread and fry stuff, or to put a bunch of dairy products, butter, and sugar into a bowl and stir. Then she does her fake googly eyes thing [yawn] while she shovels it into her mouth.
Once I made her recipe for banana pudding and I think we all were on the verge of getting diabetes afterwards. It has sweetened condensed milk, cream cheese, whipped cream, pudding, cookies..........
MISSISSIPPIANS THE FATTEST IN THE USA
by Mary 28 Replies latest jw friends
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rebel8
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Mary
nvrgnbk: Is that the horse piss you speak of, my dear sister Mary?
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Mary
rebel said: People are starving. It's a drain on nonrenewable resources to grow, ship, and store all that extra food.
Exactly. Why don't we just ship half the food we've got over here, to the starving nations? Then everyone's full. You know which program I do enjoy watching, is the Eat, Shrink and be Merry show. The girls take recipes that we all love, and re-do them in a far healthier and lower fat version. The other night, I tried making their boneless, skinless chicken wings and damn were they good! I also made their blueberry pancakes. Instead of using oil or butter in the recipe, they used mashed bananas. Far less fat and a lot healthier.
I also want to try their recipe for chicken pot pie. For the crust, instead of using lard or butter, they used mashed potatoes! Apparently, it's quite good, so I want to give it a whirl......
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Bonnie_Clyde
While your waistline grows, so does society's burden to take care of you by paying your medical bills and disability and to your employers/coworkers who have to make up for your absences and decreased productivity
A major health insurance company in our state has come up with an interesting incentive to get people to get healthier. If people make the effort to follow their program for healthier living, which includes weight control, they have only a $500 deductible per year. If they choose not to make the effort, they have a $2,000 deductible per year. This only started a year ago, but there are 50,000 people who are under this arrangement so far, and I will be very interested to know how much of an impact this will make. Sometimes it helps if it hits the pocketbook.
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reneeisorym
From a Mississippian .....
The biggest reason we are all fat is because of behavioral habits we learn from our parents. My parents are both between 250 and 300.
It makes me sick to see them eat! I think it is really greedy to go to a buffet and eat even 3 plates full. It is not fair to the restaurant owners to take advantage of the situation. I am not skinny by any means! I learned to make poor choices and I realize it but find it soooo hard to change my habits. Between being plenty full after one plate and not wanting to be greedy, I never even go back for seconds.
The only way to fix the problem is to do something to change our learned behavior. We must grow up being given healthy choices. How to do that I do not know! You are talking about changing a whole culture!
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snowbird
You are talking about changing a whole culture!
Amen to that from an Alabamian. I'm trying to undo the damage from all those pig tails, neckbones, fried chicken, sweet potato pies, etc., that I so loved as a child.
It's not easy, but I've switched to skim milk, canola oil, lean meat, fish, and plenty of whole grains. Some days we have nothing but veggies that have been simmered in defatted chicken or beef stock. No sugary cereal, either. The grandkids used to sniff at bran, plain wheat or oats, but once they realized I wasn't budging, they quickly got with the program. Now you should see them dig into raisin bran! None have weight problems, by the way. It has to start with one family at a time.
Snowbird
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sspo
Let them enjoy their food
Nothing wrong with an oversized a$$ on a pretty girl.
Some men like it just like that.
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changeling
I love the food in Mississippi!
changeling
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PEC
MISSISSIPPI, a good place to start a bakery.
Philip
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Mary
It really is insane when you think about it that there are millions of people literally starving to death due to lack of food:
And at the same time, there are millions of people literally eating to death due to too much food:
