The American "Obesity Epidemic?"

[kyleb]

My mom cooked 5 days a week and I still ended up eating like [censored] in college. She did let me eat as many potato chips and drink as much soda as I wanted, though, since I was rail-thin as a kid through high school.

Of course, that was due to playing soccer every single month in sweltering heat outdoors and stuffy conditions indoors.

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My mom didn't smoke dope or drink much beer, but when I went to college, I did. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I wasn't much in the role model market by the time I hit college. It was close to too late for it anyway.

Didn't take me too long to get back to healthy habits though. I had them because the folks used to give us balanced meals growing up. Seemed the responsible thing to do at the time, and I'm glad they did. I'm glad I didn't grow up thinking cheeseburgers and fries was a balanced and particularly nutritious meal, or that they wouldn't make me fat.

[kidcolin]

I'm in the same boat as kyle. My mom cooked 5 nights a week, and while they probably weren't the healthiest things ever, they were pretty solid. Basically meat/potatoes/veggies. Pasta once every couple of weeks. That sort of thing. Getting take out was rare treat.

I still managed to eat like crap. I ate sugary cereal for breakfast, lots of snack foods, and I was probably ~5% body fat. So I can kind of understand why matt's mom thinks that.

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I was probably ~5% body fat.

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lol no...but I understand what you're talking about.

[longbody]

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Too bad you could not find the remaining articles. I would have loved to hear him rant on and on about people not losing their sight, kidneys, livers, feet and hands due to high levels of blood glucose.

Don't care if it is genetic, due to obesity, caused by sun spots or whatever, too high levels of glucose in your blood kills you over time. Saying that there is no such disease as type 2 diabetes does not change that.

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I don't think you're understanding what he's saying.

How would you know what makes you go blind, lose your feet, etc., and what doesn't? There are a # of different conditions that could raise your blood sugar levels, and between the different conditions, a # of other things could be going on causing all the problems.

Saying that there is no such thing as type II diabetes allows someone to find out what the true cause is instead of handing someone a drug to lower blood sugar and hope that everything is ok, despite their being a possibility of an underlying problem such as steroid use or Cushing's disease etc. Taking the drug won't make the underlying problem go away.

Its the same thing as a fat person getting their stomach stapled. Doesn't really solve the underlying problem of eating too much crap, being lazy or having a thyroid problem.

I will try to get the other articles, because he has his own theory of what causes type II diabetes that is very interesting.

[kyleb]

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I was probably ~5% body fat.

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lol no...but I understand what you're talking about.

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Yes uh 5% bodyfat is like a serious medical condition for men, I think.

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How do you know it won't make the problem go away?

Cushing's disease and steroid usage causing symptoms of diabetes is anywhere near as large a cause of such symptoms as is diabetes?

[Thremp]

People don't lose limbs from diabetes anymore. The 1850s want their medical treatments back.

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People don't lose limbs from diabetes anymore. The 1850s want their medical treatments back.

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This is not true. Lower leg amputations are the most common.

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Yup. This definitely still happens. Blindness too.