I have now heard everything, and can die happy.
A doctor has now identified the reason for why 30% of Americans are obese.
No, it is not the 4 liters of Coke consumed for breakfast, nor is it the fact that Americans consume more junk food than any other nation.
Oh no, the culprit can now be laid squarely at the door of a VIRUS! Yep, no need to avoid the consequences of your own actions, introduce the WMD of the human body.....
http://sun.science.wayne.edu/~ndhurand/whatIdo.html
Jeez...
Originally posted by AlcraSounds about right blame something or someone else.
I have now heard everything, and can die happy.
A doctor has now identified the reason for why 30% of Americans are obese.
No, it is not the 4 liters of Coke consumed for breakfast, nor is it the fact that Americans consume more junk food than any other nation.
Oh no, the culprit can now be laid squarely at the door of a VIRUS! Yep, no need to avoid t ...[text shortened]... the WMD of the human body.....
http://sun.science.wayne.edu/~ndhurand/whatIdo.html
Jeez...
Next step kill it.
GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Originally posted by StarrmanI just saw the documentary on Discovery Channel.
I watched the Channel 4 Documentary on this and I was left with the overwhelming feeling that the whole thing was mostly unsubstantiated and wholy unresearched. The laboratory tests were far from conclusive and not nearly enough of them were carried out.
If this virus is so common in the States, why not elsewhere?
Originally posted by StarrmanScience is a joke. Anything can be proved with selective tests. My girlfriend worked for a giant american pharma company, and when they were testing products, they were told to ignore the tests which didn't give the results that they were looking for. Great. Ah well. At least they weren't anything important like AIDS detection kits. Oh wait, they were. 🙁
I watched the Channel 4 Documentary on this and I was left with the overwhelming feeling that the whole thing was mostly unsubstantiated and wholy unresearched. The laboratory tests were far from conclusive and not nearly enough of them were carried out.
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Here's an amusing anecdote:
I found myself in Northern California a few summers ago, on my way from San Francisco to some small town in Oregon when we stopped off at a small diner near the Redwood forests. I was beginning to notice a drastic change in "trashiness" as we travelled North. Almost suddenly, people began wearing camoflouge, driving pick-up trucks, talking in weird accents about sasquatches, and most importantly, appearing much rounder (No offense intended to any fat, pick-up driving, hunter types).
We stopped to eat at a diner just outside the Redwood forest. The first sight: some fat, dirty pick-up driving trashball kicks his dog for bugging him while he's on a payphone. Oh that's just beautiful, I thought.
We go inside the diner, order and take a seat. There is a salad buffet there which I, ironically enough, think hasn't seen any use in a while. In comes this obese family, waddling in their sweat pants and windbreakers, looking for a grease fix. Disgusting.
Me and my girlfriend are cracking inappropriate jokes and listening to their ghastly American accents when the fattest of them, the daughter, says, "I think I'll have the salad bar". (Not to brag, but I have a great talent for impersonation which usually aids in my story-telling. It's too bad you guys can't hear my shrill witchy hag voice)
She proceeds to roll her fat form over to the salad bar and makes this humungously healthy stack of greens which looks rather tasty and even filling for a salad. Then the gross part. She takes a ladel and POURS on the Ranch dressing. Think milk in cereal pour. The entire salad was covered in a thick and tangy white goop. There was no longer any green showing.
She makes her way to the bench where she is so fat that she has to sit at the end of the table with her giant ham legs sticking outwards from the table. She raises the salad bowl up to her chin and begins to shovel the salad into her mouth like it were a feed bag. Tiny rivers of ranch dressing starts to drip down the prominent cracks of her multiple chins whilst my girlfriend and I stared, mouths agape, at a sight so frightening that eating thereafter was out of the question.
We immediately had to get up and leave before we burst out laughing (or vomiting) in public.
Ah, you Americans.
Fat swine.
Originally posted by RagnorakThat's not science. That's commercialism, they know what they want and engineer the results they want so that they can get their product out onto shelves and make profits.
Science is a joke. Anything can be proved with selective tests. My girlfriend worked for a giant american pharma company, and when they were testing products, they were told to ignore the tests which didn't give the results that they were looking for. Great. Ah well. At least they weren't anything important like AIDS detection kits. Oh wait, they were. 🙁
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Reminds me of my GCSE science projects, it is quite scary really.
Originally posted by AlcraThat's the dumbest thing I've heard all day.
I have now heard everything, and can die happy.
A doctor has now identified the reason for why 30% of Americans are obese.
No, it is not the 4 liters of Coke consumed for breakfast, nor is it the fact that Americans consume more junk food than any other nation.
Oh no, the culprit can now be laid squarely at the door of a VIRUS! Yep, no need to avoid t ...[text shortened]... the WMD of the human body.....
http://sun.science.wayne.edu/~ndhurand/whatIdo.html
Jeez...
A "fat virus".....cripes. I think my brain is officially going to explode from idicoy.
BOOM
Yep, there it went.
Originally posted by jimmyb270That's my point.
That's not science. That's commercialism, they know what they want and engineer the results they want so that they can get their product out onto shelves and make profits.
How much of the scientific research at the moment is being done by giant multinational pharmas, whose bottom line is profit, not the well being of the customer.
This same pharma co that my gf worked for has an excellent product for one of the tests. It was more accurate, faster, easier, etc, but they couldn't sell it because another multinational had the patent for 10 years. So we are stuck with inferior health products.
As an aside, I don't think that obesity is genetic. Fair enough, people can be born with small and large frames, but I think that obesity is learned, not born with. Think about it. My grandma was fat, my mother is fat, I'm fat, and my daughter is fat, therefore, obesity is genetic. Hold the phone though.
I learned about eating/cooking from my mother, who in turn learned about eating from her ma. That education included lots of hotdogs, bread, burgers, greasy foods in general, ice cream and pancakes. How in hell could anybody expect to be thin growing up with a diet like that?
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Originally posted by darvlaydarvlav,
Here's an amusing anecdote:
I found myself in Northern California a few summers ago, on my way from San Francisco [text shortened]
Ah, you Americans.
Fat swine.
While i think your point and accent i wish i could hear are hysterical, i have to ask ... do u sincerely dislike all Americans? Are we to blame for any problem that needs a reason? it bothers me to no friggin end when i read over and over.. the Americans cause this or that. Just like that girl needs to take responsibility for her obesity, so do others for their own griefs.
America and Americans are not the reason for the worlds problems. Thats really all i want to say. We are many things, but ...... ahhh im tired of defending the point. People will persecute for good reasons, bad reasons or NO reasons. Its human nature.
Originally posted by PantaphobiaNo, I love all Americans. Even the Shamus who can't fit into picnic tables.
darvlav,
While i think your point and accent i wish i could hear are hysterical, i have to ask ... do u sincerely dislike all Americans? Are we to blame for any problem that needs a reason? it bothers me to no friggin end when i read over and over.. the Americans cause this or that. Just like that girl needs to take responsibility for her obesity, ...[text shortened]... point. People will persecute for good reasons, bad reasons or NO reasons. Its human nature.
Please don't forget that I am Canadian and suffer from Nation-Envy.