The fascination with "big food" in the US is a wonder indeed. I suppose one can only ask "why?"
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I like obesity
My father had diabetes and I want to make sure I do too
I need to learn to eat like a boa constrictor
http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/20061029-Worlds_Largest_Hamburger
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Can't wait to see man vs food take on that one...
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All,
Has anyone else noticed that the burger doesn't appear to be properly cooked in the middle? Looks a bit pink to me !
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Catfoot -
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More of a medium rare man myself.
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Then there is the "Heart Attack Grill" (yes, it's actually called that). The following CBS report gives you an idea...
The restaurant's spokesperson died earlier this year... at the ripe old age of 29... Heart Attack Grill giant dead at 29 .
On a more enlightening note. Obesity is also a real problem for Australia & the U.K, with an epidemic of associated diseases... costing the U.S, Australia & U.K billions of dollars in health care (greater than military budgets) - yet there is a cheap & natural cure!
The sooner this world goes on a whole-food plant based diet the better. Most, if not all degenerative diseases would be prevented, reversed/cured by abstaining from the now common animal-based, processed food diet (not to mention the benefits it would also have on the world economy & environment... as well as the animals).
Being that we are in the business of treating people with degenerative diseases (particularly conditions associated with type 2 diabetes) we all should be aware of a more natural & effective process of treatment which addresses the cause & not just the symptoms.
A plant based diet (i.e. vegan diet) has had far better success on conditions like cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes & several forms of cancer than the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry has had... with results backed by scientific/medical research. There has also been research on the impact of the whole-food plant based diet in the regression of diabetic neuropathy (have been interested in Dr Neal Barnard's work).
The food a lot of people are eating is killing them, or at the least making them unwell (with the array of associated problems associated with a compromised immune system). However, food can also be our medicine... after all, as Socrates once said "Let food be your medicine & medicine be your food".
This is unfortunately a controversial topic - it shouldn't be, but it is :craig: Why, because the influence the meat, dairy & pharmaceutical industry has on governments. There has also been the repression of information & the academic discrimination of scientists/research in this area - reminds me of another topic/area which faces the same debasing conduct :bang: .Last edited by a moderator: Sep 22, 2016 -
It's definetly contraversial. But then most things that effect our health usually are for some reason. We can seem to always come to agreements on things like tires, bolt strength, and other non essential type information, but our well bieng is a hot button to be sure.
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Actually, the latest scientific studies have now shown that there is no obesity epidemic within the United States. Rather, the magnetic flux generator within the Earth's core, located directly under Kansas, near the Yellow Brick Road (and Toto) has been strengthened by recent seismic events to the point that there is now a gravitational acceleration of 11.5 m/sec^2 within the US, rather than the gravitational acceleration on the rest of the Earth's surface of 9.8 m/sec^2. As a result, we Americans just seem to have more weight when, in reality, we only have a hyper-intense gravitational acceleration within the United States. In this way, we can continue to deny that it is any of our own faults that we weigh more and are fatter than the people from other countries......rather,and in true American fashion, we are now able to place blame on something else causing the problems with ourselves and our country......it is the Earth's fault that Americans are Fat!!:rolleyes:
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In a similar vein......
I subscribe to about four different "women's magazines" for my office......you know the one's that always have a headline about the latest and greatest diet on their front cover?
I just wish that instead of all the latest blah-blah-blah within these magazines about how to lose weight by the newest fad diet, these magazines contained just one article written with only five words in big,bold letters that would very succincty describe how to end the obesity epidemic in America.....
Eat Less and Exercise More!!:wacko::cool::rolleyes: -
Ditto Darth!...
Although your explanation of gravitational intensity in the US does makes sense from a congressional point of view I have a different slant. After all ...with the increased mass there I'm sure it has created it's own gravity well .:eek:....
As far as the ladies reading about the diets I have a newly developed placeboscope that will eliminate the need for dieting completely! Simple passes over the abdomen and thighs with the gert ray pulse emitter will melt away the inches ...guaranteed to work wonders or your money back! -
Controversial because federal policies & government subsidies are not influenced by the true/sincere/empirical science for healthy human nutrition, but by financial incentives via government contracts going to the livestock (meat & dairy) industry (industry members of which who are in roles/boards dictating the nutritional requirements of the population). Hence, unfortunately, it has very little to do with the health of the population but financial health... for those in the associated industries who stand to benefit from our consumption, addictions & subsequent un-wellness.
Dr Colin Campbell (researcher & author behind the now famous book - The China Study) has paid the price via academic discrimination for stating views contrary to that of his own university due to key administrators/directors having industry ties i.e. to the Dairy Association.
What is the most popular prescribed drug in the world (greater than Viagra)... it's a Statin (cholesterol reducing Mx.) - Lipitor - probably making Pfizer millions, if not billions of dollars. Does 99% of the users of Lipitor need this to reduce their cholesterol - certainly not - there is a far more conducive economical, environmental, natural & healthier way to address the problem - cut out all animal based products & replace it with plant based foods.
The thing is, there is very little money in healthy people & of course there is no money in dead people... the money is in the people who are alive but living sick - living with obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, cancer... predominantly the result of poor diet & lifestyle choices. The answer is not another pill (i.e. Lipitor), the answer lies within plant based whole-foods & an active physical lifestyle.
Some may say the vegan lifestyle is extreme but I feel the diseases & implications associated with eating an animal & processed food based diet is extreme i.e. having your chest cut open & having a bypass placed on the heart - just to name one.
Some may say we need animal based foods for the likes of adequate protein & calcium. Yet, the science states the opposite. Animal protein is dangerous (i.e. shown to increase tumour/cancer growths). We need to replace animal protein with plant based protein from whole foods.
Let's look at the case with calcium & osteoporosis. Nations with high consumption of dairy (deemed a major source of calcium in the western world) should have a low case of osteoporosis. However, nations with high level dairy consumption & deemed calcium intake (i.e. Sweden, New Zealand, U.S) also have the highest level of hip fractures which is the key indicator of osteoporosis - the exact opposite to what the dairy industry would have us believe. Why? In short, animal protein creates an acid like condition in the body known as metabolic acidosis. To combat this, the body draws on the most readily available acid buffer - calcium - extracted from the bones to neutralize the excess acid - hence, weakened bones. As Podiatrists we no doubt are aware of the implications osteoporosis has on the treatment & future health of our patients.
Diabetic neuropathy is also a big problem & once again has implications on our treatment & the health of our patients. I have a few patients with diabetic neuropathy & subsequently have been associated with drug research for this condition (three from memory) - all were cut short due to adverse side effects. There looks to be a far better way to address the treatment - a natural way, no side effects, cheaper, food based... & the research is revealing that the plant based diet is contributing to a regression of the disease.
Thomas Edison wrote... "The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure & prevent disease with nutrition". This may one day be true... if we follow where the evidence leads. -
I shared an office with a vegan for many years. He appeared to live mainly on brown rice and lentils.
The things which happened in the toilet were most definately NOT healthy. Years on I still find myself doing involuntary Col. Kurtz impressions.
The horror...
With all respect to the vegan way, and I remain unconvinced that its all that natural or healthy, I would hate to pass up on all the tastiest foods then get hit by a bus!
The average life expectancy in the US and UK is somwhere around the late 70s early 80s, and thats with people eating like hogs. I think I'd rather spend the next 30 years enjoying food, taking statins, and cark it at 70 rather than eat rabbit food, make my body a temple and drag on to 90.
I'd rather have a lower survival expectancy and a higher life expectancy than vice versa. And if that means taking kemikul drugs to counteract the Balvennie and KFC then I'm happy to make the drug companies rich!
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Hi Robo ;),
Besides, your taste buds will unlikely appreciate the taste & texture of plants based whole-foods as they have become conditioned to the high fat, high salt, over stimulant (i.e. MSG derivatives) content of animal based products & processed foods. Dare I say, you will naturally gravitate to where your addiction lies... whether that be food, drink (i.e. coffee) or drugs.
Anyway Rob, I'm entitled to my views & you are entitled to yours. I state mine (as controversial they may appear in this day & age) because I sincerely believe it to be true & more conducive to human well-being... as well better fits the science/research released thus far & foretell in the future. You seem to base your reasoning primarily on pleasure of the senses, which I can understand.
I sincerely wish you the best in health Rob & hope you surpass your goal of 70 years of age :drinks (that be fruit smoothies, as alcohol is a class 1 carcinogen :D). -
I don't believe that the risks of eating meat are quite the same as smoking...
But I KNOW that if I eat a wicked zinger meal, or drink a nice single malt at the end of the day, I will get physical pleasure from it. And I'm willing to trade on what I know rather than what I believe.
But as I say, if your physical pleasure is from a feeling of wellbeing and health then good for you! And I apologise on behalf of my people for ruining your planet ;) -
since you brought up smoking...
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Oh yes, I really have no interest whatsoever hearing the views of Bill Hicks work himself up to a frenzy to justify his smoking addiction (I bet he's on hypertension & statin mx.). I much rather take notice of a couple of droids who seem to embody humanity & common sense far more effectively than Mr Hicks...
Our friends in a galaxy far, far away has also shown us the adverse effects of alcohol...
A reliable resource has informed me that Luke, Han, Obi-Wan & Yoda were vegan. Anakin was but then...Last edited by a moderator: Sep 22, 2016 -
And I can't pass up an oppertunity to get in a plug for one of my favourite adverts ever.
Be warned, it has words.
Well, just one. but he uses it a lot.Last edited by a moderator: Sep 22, 2016 -
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Talking of meds; They lie about marijuana. They tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well – you just realize that it's not worth the effort. - Hicks, Revelations 1993
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Not a fair trade really.
You're right of course. But the point is, while you can make observations about what is good for a body, its my body (such as it is). And its faintly annoying when people start talking in general terms about what "we" should be doing, what the "best" way is, and how drs should be treating us by using food as medicine it strikes fear into my (probably quite congested) heart. We have few enough freedoms in this sanitized world, the freedom to eat large slabs of dead but still bleeding cow, and not to be made to feel guilty about it is one of the last!
Leave it be. Keep your body in trim. Give people who want / need it the benefit as well. But please, don't say what is best for all of us, or what is the "right" way to live. Its different, not better. :drinks: Smoothy chink.
I like smoothies anyway.
And also Mcdonalds milkshake.
Which I'm told is mainly comprised of chicken fat.
But which tastes SO good from the drive through after a long clinic.
I Like Chicken. I like banana. So if they've found a way to make them work together, then i'll have a large one. -
My initial intention was certainly not to preach the health message. Just to state some facts pertaining to the thread, diet & its affect on health (& a few other areas). But you know how forums go... I post something, you respond, I respond to you... & before we know it we have videos of Bill Hicks, C3PO & R2D2 on an obesity related thread. You have to laugh sometimes on the manner in which some threads (dare I say it) evolve.
Once again, I had no intentions making anyone feel guilty. Just wanted to share some info that some may not have heard of or may not have considered - some may even find it interesting.
How about you get a piece of wire, bend it to reflect the curvature of the banana, skew the banana with your wire, brush honey on the banana & then sprinkle chicken seasoning over it, or dip it in the chicken seasoning. It's worth a try :eek:.
All the best.
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