Forums | MacLife

sturner wrote:

Steyr AUG wrote:

bratboy wrote:

Thankfully for Steyr there isn't a tax on intellectual dishonesty.

What government program does this story advocate?  Does it claim that they're going hungry?

mm indeed. Like the intellectual dishonesty of asserting that I said anything about the story making those claims

No but by implication from your thread title you did make that assertion.

Highly processed starches and sugars are what's largely causing the obesity, together with overeating. this food is cheap, calorie dense, and not very satisfying in amounts that stay within ones limits in terms of calorie intake vs. output. One doesn't have to be a pig to become fat. Americans also need to learn a thing or two about nutrition.

One pound of fat = 3600 kCal.

Average basal metabolic rate, 1500 - 1900 kCal/day

Actual calorie rate/day = basal metabolic + activity + thermic effect of food

break even calories in = calories out.

Whatever your break even point, you eat 100 excess calories per day and in 36 days you gain a pound. 1 year and you gain about 11 pounds. 5 years you gain 55 pounds. . . do the math.

Some folks eat way more than 100 excess calories/day. some eat way more and burn it off exercising or at a job that is physically demanding. Some folks just eat too damned much and watch too much teevee.

For the record, some Americans were going hungry even during the dotcom affluence.

It's just more noticable today; more can see themselves slipping there.

I am happy they did not have a baby for more free money.