[MassiveTruck]

Stress?
Laziness?
Poverty?
Genes?
Alien race?

What?

Ultimately - what is the main cause of the obesity epidemic we here about?

Is it even an epidemic?

[King Gizzard]

There are loads of different reasons

stress, boredom, genes, medical, lazy, like food

[MassiveTruck]

[rquote=2612453&tid=148271&author=Nathan]There are loads of different reasons

stress, boredom, genes, medical, lazy, like food[/rquote]

Aye... just redone it.

[hotleggs]

PLAIN AND SIMPLE COZ THERE ****ING GREEDY

[30stone]

The common ones
Is Laziness, Lack of will power and Love of food.

If i ever started getting fat, id make sure i changed my diet and my training i would hate it.

[King Gizzard]

Parents as well..the way they are brought up.

[Ryan.]

As a Fatty, don't i get a say in this.

I like to eat.
I dislike Excercise.
Therefore I am Fat.

[setanta]

Easy access to cheap, processed foods doesn't help in the developed world.

[hotleggs]

NO EXCUSE , LOTS OF SHOPS ARE CHEAP NOW HALF PRICE ,NEVER HEARD OF THE BIG FAT CHIPPY BEING HALF PRICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I THINK ITS JUST LAZY FAT PEOPLE , SITTING ON THE PC ALL DAY FONING THE CHIPPY IN OR GRABBING SOMETHIGN QUICK , DONT HAVE TO EAT SALADS EVERYDAY THERES DIET FOOD BUT ITS UP TO YOUS NOT MY LIFE AND NO I AM NOT ON A DIET ALL THE TIME I EAT THE RIGHT THINGS

[Zac]

[rquote=2612561&tid=148271&author=hotleggs]NO EXCUSE , LOTS OF SHOPS ARE CHEAP NOW HALF PRICE ,NEVER HEARD OF THE BIG FAT CHIPPY BEING HALF PRICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I THINK ITS JUST LAZY FAT PEOPLE , SITTING ON THE PC ALL DAY FONING THE CHIPPY IN OR GRABBING SOMETHIGN QUICK , DONT HAVE TO EAT SALADS EVERYDAY THERES DIET FOOD BUT ITS UP TO YOUS NOT MY LIFE AND NO I AM NOT ON A DIET ALL THE TIME I EAT THE RIGHT THINGS [/rquote]

[setanta]

[rquote=2612562&tid=148271&author=Zac][rquote=2612561&tid=148271&author=hotleggs]NO EXCUSE , LOTS OF SHOPS ARE CHEAP NOW HALF PRICE ,NEVER HEARD OF THE BIG FAT CHIPPY BEING HALF PRICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I THINK ITS JUST LAZY FAT PEOPLE , SITTING ON THE PC ALL DAY FONING THE CHIPPY IN OR GRABBING SOMETHIGN QUICK , DONT HAVE TO EAT SALADS EVERYDAY THERES DIET FOOD BUT ITS UP TO YOUS NOT MY LIFE AND NO I AM NOT ON A DIET ALL THE TIME I EAT THE RIGHT THINGS [/rquote]

[/rquote]

What a rant! Relax.

It's a valid point I'm making about the amount of processed food that are high in fat and preservatives that litter our supermarkets. The disintegration of the family unit and the reality of modern living means that many people sadly don't have the time or inclination to prepare a homecooked meal and instead go for an easier option.

And don't forget about the power of the media and it's effect on the minds of consumers, with many of the advertisements highlighting all of these foods groups. Bound to have an effect on people. People have a new relationship with food now - an emotional one. Compare this to your parents generation when they couldn't just eat whenever they wanted to. Things have changed for the worse in the developed world with regard to our relationship with food.... consumerism baby.

[Stu]

[rquote=2612561&tid=148271&author=hotleggs]NO EXCUSE , LOTS OF SHOPS ARE CHEAP NOW HALF PRICE ,NEVER HEARD OF THE BIG FAT CHIPPY BEING HALF PRICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I THINK ITS JUST LAZY FAT PEOPLE , SITTING ON THE PC ALL DAY FONING THE CHIPPY IN OR GRABBING SOMETHIGN QUICK , DONT HAVE TO EAT SALADS EVERYDAY THERES DIET FOOD BUT ITS UP TO YOUS NOT MY LIFE AND NO I AM NOT ON A DIET ALL THE TIME I EAT THE RIGHT THINGS [/rquote]
What a moron you are. People are fat for numerous different reasons. Fat is not the be all and end all. I know people who sit around all day who are the width of my finger.

I like to eat.
I dislike Excercise.
Therefore I am Fat.

Good for you. I smoke cigarettes because I like them. You eat like a pig because you like it. We both hate exercise. Our lives may be a few years shorter, but **** it. Live it to the max as you want it. Fitness is a hobby for some people, not for me.

I dont mind fit people, but I hate gym rats who seem to insist we should ALL copy there 'perfect' lifestyles. **** you. When your pumping iron, im laughing my ass off watching dopey sitcoms with a curry .

[MassiveTruck]

But like I said, what is the general reason for people being overweight. What is the usual or the most common reason.

I know we all eat crisps, we all eat sweets, we all have cake too - the difference is if you're over weight (medical reasons besides) you are eating more calories than is required.

Say for instance, a cake is 500 calories and you need 2000 calories day. If you eat 3 cakes and drink some food, then that food should get burned off.

If you are a working individual in a job where you are on your feet a lot and you eat a high fat, high sugar diet - say 4000 calories a day, but you burn off a lot of that due to general lifestyle - then you will not get obese or overweight. You may carry a little fat because of it but not overweight...

but then there is this rising obesity in this country. Obviously (medical reasons aside) some of us are eating more than we can handle, - why is that.

I think it's high stress, high addiction to the fast colourful media filled world full of artificial imagery that we can't live up to. All this precious requires people to fill up that hole somehow to compensate for the inadequacy from the demands of the image obsessed advertising world.

Too much information - Too much pressure and a lot of people can't live up to continual disappointment.

[GypsyGoth]

They love food more than their body image.

[NettoSuperstar!]

Ronald Macdonald...hang the ****er

[arista]

[rquote=2612997&tid=148271&author=NettoSuperstar!]Ronald Macdonald...hang the ****er[/rquote]


Yes the Dirty Yanks.

[MassiveTruck]

I don't think McDonalds is as bad as some other foods out there. Like they don't do pastrys like greggs or cakes as much - it's burgers and a lot of their burgers aren't utterly fat laden.

It's not Top Notch food but it's only bad if you (like I said above) eat too much of it and do very little.

[NettoSuperstar!]

[rquote=2613014&tid=148271&author=arista][rquote=2612997&tid=148271&author=NettoSuperstar!]Ronald Macdonald...hang the ****er[/rquote]


Yes the Dirty Yanks.[/rquote]

Hehe

[NettoSuperstar!]

[rquote=2613139&tid=148271&author=MassiveTruck]I don't think McDonalds is as bad as some other foods out there. Like they don't do pastrys like greggs or cakes as much - it's burgers and a lot of their burgers aren't utterly fat laden.

It's not Top Notch food but it's only bad if you (like I said above) eat too much of it and do very little.[/rquote]

I was just using him as a symbol of all thats wrong in the world lol

[Fom]

I eat rubbish at times but I exercise it off, I agree with most of it is just being lazy. But I won't paint all obese people with the same brush some people genuinely can't help it, as its medical. But most times it is eating wrong things and not working them off... its quite pathetic really. I work really hard to keep fit.

[arista]

Thats Good you are Fit
Fom YouTube Boy.

[*mazedsalv**]

Eating a lot, not doing any exersise, being lazy....

I DO ALL OF THEM, and Im only a skinny 8 stone. So as this may be a fact for some people, eating and being lazy isnt the biggest factor.

IMO, its genes, all my family are quiete slim and built, I have no obese people in my family, and then theres my Friends family, my friend is about 14 stone(same weight as my Dad), 17 year old male, and everytime i see him, I tend to notice he doesnt eat much and never has.... but his parents are obese. Soo IMO its to do with 70% of your genes and 30% your diet.

[MassiveTruck]

[rquote=2613702&tid=148271&author=NettoSuperstar!][rquote=2613139&tid=148271&author=MassiveTruck]I don't think McDonalds is as bad as some other foods out there. Like they don't do pastrys like greggs or cakes as much - it's burgers and a lot of their burgers aren't utterly fat laden.

It's not Top Notch food but it's only bad if you (like I said above) eat too much of it and do very little.[/rquote]

I was just using him as a symbol of all thats wrong in the world lol[/rquote]

Poor Ronald. The Osama Bin Laden of the Fast Food World.

[Alf]

its not really a major issue
why are we bothered if people are too fat or too thin?

there's much bigger problems to solve, like why dont teachers have the right to disipline children? (seeing as the parents are all to pissed and stoned to do it)

why do footballers earn more in a week than the emergency services earn in a year?

why is smoking prohibeted in public places yet alcohol isnt?

i'm 5ft 8in and 13st 1 and my doctor told me i'm obese, i've never heard so much rubbish in my life
dont listen to everything the media tells you, make your own decisions in life.

[arista]

Fat Women
block you getting through Doors.