tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post7796461429574513473..comments2024-03-02T02:26:00.928-05:00Comments on bleakonomy: What we don't know about obesitytetracontadigonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04604381739383227553noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-73663662077961740452009-07-10T19:15:49.327-04:002009-07-10T19:15:49.327-04:00Elizabeth, our metabolism slows as we age as does ...Elizabeth, our metabolism slows as we age as does our energy level so long haul, yeah, it will be tough, the trick is to keep the weight gain at a manageable level, not to stay the same weight forever.<br /><br />charoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-73683623513614153022009-07-10T13:47:36.797-04:002009-07-10T13:47:36.797-04:00Hmmmm...I wrote a response to this, and it's n...Hmmmm...I wrote a response to this, and it's not here. Forgive me if it suddenly shows up and I've responded twice. Suffice it to say, what you mention has been bandied about as a possible explanation or the rise in obesity, but not definitively linked. More importantly, I want to know why if the answer to obesity is as simple as calories in, calories out, it is much easier to kick heroin than it is to maintain a weight loss. Eating few calories and exercising more is the answer, maybe. But why is it near impossible to do that over the long haul? I don't believe that heroin addicts are that much more motivated than are fat people. (I say this as a person who is one of very very few who has lost a good amount of weight and kept it off for about a decade.)Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953173396955681485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-20237557330062267522009-07-09T19:09:22.608-04:002009-07-09T19:09:22.608-04:00Elizabeth, fast food, air conditioning, disappeare...Elizabeth, fast food, air conditioning, disappearence of factory jobs all had an effect.<br />When people worked all day on their feet in a factory, they stayed thinner. It ain't the heat, you don't see many fat Vietnamese, or Cantonese. It is diet and exercise. <br />Of course Southerners have access to healthy foods, they simply don't chooose to eat it, if they asked for it, stores would provide it. Now fat doesn't alwasy mean unhealthy, many Mexicans are fat but don't suffer the same adverse affects. Mexicans get the exercise, they have a pretty bad diet though.<br />Many Americans are both fat and lazy, I think it is a false humility to say we don't know that is why they are fat. I know why I myself can spare to lose a good 20 pounds, I eat too much junk and don't exercise enough. When I lived in Asia I stripped down to 135 pounds, vegies, rice, exercise, when I left I gained 50 pounds over the past 5 years. Really, no mystery.<br /><br />charoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com