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Did we have fat people in the old days?
Did we have fat people in the old days?
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Normal service is not resumed until you've burned off all the alcohol.
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My school in the 80s had around 850 kids. I honestly think there were no more than 20 fat kids and of those maybe 5 you'd say were massively overweight. It's not like sugar etc wasn't available then but we were certainly more active with outdoor stuff for sure. I think DR C is correct in that the companies with their refined sugar foods have just got much much better at making them very addictive - add that to more sedentary computer time and it's not surprising a lot of kids are way bigger now. Also, aside from computers etc do you think a lot of the very young kids are being harmed by helicoptering parenting? in the 80s you'd be off on your bike with your mates or to the park for football. Now it seems people are obsessed their kid will be abducted and it limits independence and exercise for the child.
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on the other hand, you only live once. do you want to live to 60 eating curries and delicious food and going down the pub and knocking back pints, or do you want to live to 80 only eating salad and sitting indoors knitting
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And by the way for diabetics.
The liver tries to export the LDL cholesterol that it's made from the alcohol into the muscles where it causes further insulin resistance. So drinking alcohol if you are S2 diabetic can get you from stage 2 diabetes to stage 1 diabetes faster. There's not one good thing that comes from drinking alcohol as far as our bodies are concerned. or do you want to live to 80 only eating salad and sitting indoors knitting Crazy Very well put lr, it's our choice. |
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It's not just about longevity. It's about general health. Who wants to live to 60, knocking back pints and sitting on your arse, shovelling down takeaways and biscuits, if the second half of those 60 years is spent feeling lousy, sitting in doctors' waiting rooms and complaining about how long you're having to wait for operations? Give me 80 years free of back problems and heart scares any day.
And by the way, sitting indoors knitting won't help get you to 80 any more than sitting indoors on Betfair will. Exercise is all about the type of exercise. People now think just taking a walk counts as exercise. It's not enough. Physical work, by which I mean carrying or moving things, is exercise. Carrying your shopping home was about the last remaining glimpse of how life was lived as the human body evolved over thousands of years. Now, all of a sudden, even that activity has virtually ceased. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/fitness/exercise/rucking-the-number-one-fitness-trend-of-2015/news-story/f0eae3e3b18332694898891fe6c48009 For the average guy, a 30-minute walk burns about 125 calories, according to the Compendium of Physical Activities. But throw on a weighted backpack and take that exact same walk, and you burn about 325 calories, also according to the Compendium of Physical Activities. Just wearing a backpack with some weight in it makes walking incinerate nearly three times the calories. Or, as we used to call it, "carrying the shopping home" (or "carrying the firewood home" or "carrying the formbooks to the racecourse" - just about everything we no longer do). The article goes on: It builds up your hip and postural stability, and that makes you more injury-proof in all your other activities ... Carrying heavy things is a fundamental human skill that most people don’t train. It builds you a more solid foundation of fitness. And once you build the foundation, everything else becomes easier. "Everything else becomes easier" ... I like that. |
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Surprisingly people who don't appear overweight, can be just as much at risk from health problems associated with fat as the more obvious ones.
These are people with fat distributed around the organs, so it's not just visible fat that's the killer. Many S2 diabetics fall into this category, and we all know you don't have to be obese or unfit in order to get a heart attack. |
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I went to secondary school early 70's and honestly there was only one out of 100 who was overweight , fast forward early 90,s now married with two kids we went to orlando for 2 week hols , we were shocked at the masses of fat lardy americans walking around , just like the uk now , in my opinion all down to the masses of fast food available , by the way I eat and drink whatever I want and still am the same weight , maybe I'm not greedy .
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Didn't see many fat people in the old days. They were the first to be eaten
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