I was reading about the propagation of a misleading meme featuring Jeff Bridges. It claims that there are 35 million people in this nation who don’t know where their next meal is coming from. It goes on to claim that 13 million of those concerned about eating are children. The technical term for this is “food insecurity.” The problem is, it doesn’t measure actual hunger. More
Of course, the opposite of going hungry is having too much to eat. This had me wondering how we’re doing with obesity rates. Turns out, not well. Especially for children. Here
How can a person be both obese and food insecure?
It seems like the U.S. is the only country where poor people are fat.
Empty carbs with transfats and high calories.
The government’s upside down food pyramid. Brilliant!
Obviously we are not serving enough free food at schools during the summer breaks.
We need to be serving free dinners all year long to rectify this disparity.
Face plant
Uh that kid looks like hes being groomed, if ya get my drift.
You hear a lot about ‘predisposition’ in all the healthcare talk now a days.
Predisposition: the state of being likely to behave in a particular way or to suffer from a particular disease:
Predispose: to bring about susceptibility
This is another wonderful opportunity for someone to suck up a lot of federal dollars and do a study on all the ‘disposing’ that is going on with our youth. And, in a way, they are being knowingly disposed. We’ll see the results later. We’ll pay for them, too.
You would think that people would learn.
But, such is not the case. Even published academic papers in statistics/math are being censored:
http://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/
Corona — Hee hee hee. Didn’t that also happen to Hansel?
Obesity is the characteristic they carry around with them all the time, but the people in the U.S. we call “poor” – those who qualify for some sort of tax-supported govt handouts of one kind or another – overwhelmingly have homes with heating and air conditioning, refrigerators and freezers full of food, cars or SUVs, big flat screen TVs, smart phones, game consoles, multi-hundred-dollar athletic shoes, and on and on. In many countries of the world, the living standards of the U.S. “poor” would put them in the top 10% or 20% of their population.
But back to the original question: are hunger and obesity mutually exclusive? It depends on whether you’re talking about hunger from malnutrition or hunger from being a greedy slacker. You can’t be obese with the former, you’re virtually guaranteed to be obese with the latter.
Blame, ah most credit goes to Ancel Keys’ incompetent dishonest research that set the US and much of the rest of the world on the road to fear of beneficial fats to Low Fat Maniaville, aka lipid phobia.
High rates of compliance with the USDA dietary recommendations issued in 1977 based on Keys’ work has resulted in tripled rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes world wide and not done a thing to lower cardio vascular disease, his original goal. It may have actually made it increase.
Keys’ research methods appear to have been the model for how global warming research has been done decades later with the same incorrect result outcomes. Mostly Keys is why the US dietary food pyramid is close to being 180 degrees upside down from what it should be. So we are overfed and undernourished or incorrectly nourished. If you’re thinking of eating some food that a machine chewed up for you before it was packaged and sent to the store. Pick something else to eat.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/modern-nutrition-policy-lies-bad-science#section3 .
Search youtube for Ivor Cummins and the video,
“Widowmaker”. Learn why a Coronary Artery Calcium Scan and score is the most reliable test of cardio health, not cholesterol levels. Also check out several of his other videos. Plus his recently published book, “Eat Rich Live Long”.
I agree with Smudge. Upside-down food pyramid and too much processed foods and carbs. Not enough good fats. Not enough “real” food. Lots of junk going into bodies. Some of these obese people are not getting adequate nutrients. High fructose corn syrup in everything. Sweetened drinks. Artificial sweeteners. Even fake “health foods”.
when i was a homeless person in the 70s, i toadly destroyed my metabolism – i was starving; my body learned to grasp every single calorie, and keep it FOREVER…..
no matter what i have done since then, including feeding it regularly, it is still stuck in starvation mode…that was a long time ago, and i am still paying the price….
and i actually feel HUNGRY maybe once in two years….i eat almost nothing…..i have gained weight on a 400 calorie a day diet…..while doing hours of aerobics and weight training….
i have very very very little confidence in ANY nutritional science or medical science….if they REALLY knew how our body works, they could fix us…
…no?
When food is processed and turned into ‘ready to eat’ items, a lot of science goes into preserving color, taste, and texture.
Guar gum and esters and benzoates are not normal eatin’ ingredients.
Lazlo has dropped a pile of weight since I cut out sugars (other than those found in whiskey) and processed food.
Real food, cooked by yourself or a loyal Manservant, made from simple ingredients will stand you in good stead.
The language baloney is nettling.
People do not ‘struggle with hunger’ they buy stupid shit, and devote less than an hour a day to the preparation of their sustenance. Then they eat Hot Pockets and drink Sunny D.
At least they will slow the Zombies down as they go into torpor from all the fats causing post prandial dip; allowing me to escape
@Anon – without an identity how you project yourself thinking your edgy, all I can advise is get and use a name. Personally, until than, F’ off.
Dr. Jason Fung – ‘Therapeutic Fasting – Solving the Two-Compartment Problem’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oMN-Fk .
We’re falling into the left’s trap by calling it hunger. A normal, healthy person is hungry several times a day. It is a vacuous, ambiguous term just so it can be thrown around as needed. Malnourishment is the proper term and its a measurable thing.
well I for one do not know where my next meal will come from. sometimes it takes quite a while to choose a restaurant or stay home and cook a meal.
I don’t care what Jeff Bridges says about anything. He’s just another Hollywood attention whore trying to keep his face in the public eye.
I am truly sick and tired of the entire filthy industry. I have more respect for cockroaches.
For Corona…
Hey kids, stuff your little faces,
Eat MacDonalds swill and put the fry cook through his paces,
We need a fattened child tonight, to serve our boss,
He likes his little dumplings served with lots of walnut sauce…
@anonymous — “i have gained weight on a 400 calorie a day diet…..while doing hours of aerobics and weight training….”
It’s all sciency and stuff, but 400 cals/day *IS* starvation. If you do that with any frequency, you’ll permanently damage your body. Add “hours of aerobic and weight training” and you’ll speed your own demise.
Get a book, any book, on how the body uses food and start reading it.
@AA, I don’t believe the “Anonymous” letter to the NY Slimes either.
Michael Pollan’s The Defense of Food is a very good read. He made the observation that we as a culture are simultaneously overfed yet malnourished due to the sheer quantity of the nutrient-poor garbage we shovel into our bodies.
Every fat person I’ve ever met was always hungry.
The socialists/nihilists/would-be-tyrants will go to any extent to paint America as “hungry,” “insensitive,” “poor,” “racist,” “obese,” “addicted,” “hateful,” “hurtful,” or any of the other thousands of things negative – just to weaken our resolve – even a little bit. It worked with England, France, and Germany – make the backbone of the nation ashamed of being part of that nation – and the edifice falls.
Children should look to their parents for their next meal – not the soup kitchen. That 35 Million/13 Million is probably total bullshit.
The only malnourished people I’ve ever run across are winos and meth-heads.
Malnourished by choice.
“Liberty” also implies the Liberty to make a mess of yourself.
izlamo delenda est …
In April 2018 I cut out virtually all carbs, refined sugar, sweets, processed food, dairy & anything with preservatives. I cut my alcohol intake by 75% and I eat all natural. I cook my own meals & do not starve myself one whit. I’m down 25 pounds. No more meds, better sleep, no more tummy aches & bowel problems. I “healed” myself through diet.
Now I go out into public & truly see how sick & fat most Americans are. It’s horrific.