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DesFIP -> RE: Favorite Form of Service (7/10/2011 9:51:18 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Back2theFuture
Only about 15% of obesity today is actually caused by medical reasons.
So back when we were kids there were one or two fat kids who were either lazy or has real medical problems.
There are a lot more fat people today because they are lazy and try to blame it on Medical issues.(which is usually a lie)
Way before computers, secretaries used manual typewriters. When automatic typewriters came in, secretaries gained 5 pounds a year. They didn't magically become 5 lbs lazier.
Back when tv was new, there was only one in a house. A huge assed thing that normally lived in the basement because it was so ugly. You walked up and down stairs to watch it, to get a drink, go to the bathroom. You got up and walked to and from it every half hour to change the channel, change the volume, adjust the contrast. When better, smaller tvs came in there went the stair climbing. Remotes eliminated getting up to change channels etc. All of these things did not mean the tv owner's personality changed to being lazy, it meant that to make up for the 300 calories previously burned daily during tv, you now had to add an extra half hour walk to make up for it. A half hour that you weren't cooking dinner, helping with homework, working etc.
When I lived in Manhattan I walked everywhere and carried my groceries the two blocks home, carried the dry cleaning etc. I didn't move to the country and become a lazy ass. I now live 5 miles out of town which is too far to carry groceries, dry cleaning, walk to the coffee shop to meet a friend, etc.
The fact that portion sizes have grown larger also changes calorie intake. When I was a kid a coke was in an 8 oz bottle. Today it's in a 20 ounce bottle containing 32 teaspoons of sugar. It says it serves two and a half people but I've never bought a drink in a soda machine and split it with two extra people.
Instead of sneering at people, why don't you do some research? Children today go home to empty homes as both parents need to work. They must stay inside because there are no adults to take them to the park, watch them play ball with the next door neighbor. A far cry from my youth when it was uncommon for a mother to work.
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