Obesity, A Solution Seams Obvious

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At least. Growing up in the fifties, you saw very few fat kids. So few that it was almost remarkable or exceptional. There just weren't very many. In my high school I doubt 10% of the senior class was even BMI 27. They were all fairly skinny and fit. Back then we had cokes, but they were six or eight ounces, that was it. No big gulp, and fast food basically did not exist. Even going to college in the sixties it was the same. I think 1990 may have been when things really seemed to change.

What do I blame? I don't. When I was a kid, we rode bicycles to school, never got car pooled, and played outside till the sun set. Weekends my pals and I would leave the house at 9 AM and return just before dark, our parents had NO idea where we were. There was no fast food. Half the time we didn't eat lunch. The idea of a kid going into a restaurant and ordering was ludicrous.

Today it's different. Kids have pocket money for food and access to fast food. I didn't. Shit, a typical day as a kid might see me with 10 cents in my pocket, and that was enough for a coke and pack of gum. I scrounged around for bottles ( coke bottles could be turned in for a penny or something like that) and cut lawns if I needed money. My dad didn't believe in spoiling me . Of course he grew up in rural Iowa during WWI and was REALLY aware of what poor meant. He went out and did a man's work at age 12 with Grandpa, working on the roads.

That was what it was like for me in the 70's/80's. When I was 14 years old I was landscaping at neighbors places, dragging hundreds of pounds of scotch broom uphill on Mt. Tam. Weight aside, it's depressing that the pay for doing that is pretty much the same today as it was 1984. Maybe that's why there's more fat kids, $15/hr in 1984 was enough to buy a meal at a steakhouse. Now it'll just barely cover a meal at Nation's.

I will say that my Canadian relatives get more vacation than I do (5 weeks) and that they take it mostly in the summer and spend it doing outdoor activities. I've never had a day of paid vacation in my life. How many hours of physical activity have I missed due to the live to work business culture in the US?

 

[Eldritch]

It gives you energy, once you start doing it on a regular basis. You just need to commit the first couple months or so. Then its easy and addictive. Especially when you come running/swimming/biking up behind same fine girls each time, say hello and get their numbers. The events/fundraisers are meat markets.

Very few hot chicks on motorcycles. Hundreds of guys after them. In the running/swimming/biking world, so many hot single girls. Most of the in shape guys are in relationships. The numbers are flipped, and just about all the girls have nice bodies. I don't understand too lazy for hot sex. Does not compute.

I've never had a problem being popular with females. I suppose that has allowed me to be lazy enough to be the same height as you +40 lbs and I ain't claiming to be all muscle, LOL. I guess it helps that I'm funny.