Any ideas for obesity?

[Under The Chestnut Tree]

Well most fizzy drinks contain a lot of unhealthy suger.....god i hate the corn industry.

 

[crudus]

Drink red wine. Theorized to be the cause of the French Paradox. Another thing is eat more smaller meals rather than fewer larger meals (speeds up metabolism). Green tea might help too since it is just magic.

 

[Labyrinth]

however obesity is synonymous with smelling like a rat carcass and that just doesn't really sit well with me no matter how healthy the person is

Afraid not. That particular prejudice is rife though, unfortunately. Just because someone's fat doesn't make them unclean. We aren't a disease thank you.

 

[Ranis]

Another thing is eat more smaller meals rather than fewer larger meals (speeds up metabolism).

That just sounds like "snack more"

 

[Puzzles]

Honestly, obese people should get the same fate as smokers or alcoholics - no health care.
At all.

Ugh. I thought we had all seen that research that showed that smokers, alcoholics and the obese cost the health care system less than normal people. Living 7 years longer on average, yet being sick with many of the other forms of illness found in old age makes you more of a drain on the healthcare system Max, it isn't as if people always live perfectly healthy until they die suddenly in their sleep. You will get sick, it will drag on slowly until you die and you will cost more money.

More than this, alcohol and tobacco products are taxed, meaning these people pay more towards the NHS. So get off your god damn high horse you hypocrite.

OT: I wouldn't want obese people to walk around naked. This would be awful, let them keep their clothes! Instead, give them a stomach chastity belt to wear underneath until they drop enough weight to be normal again. Wait, too harsh maybe.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Well to solve obesity you just need to build a giant slingshot and put all the fat people in it and then... what, solve it without firing people into the sun... now that's another issue entirely.

If we really want to fix the problem with obesity we have to mandate healthier food and find a way to get people to be in a more healthy lifestyle. Now, you cant force restaurants and supermarkets to sell healthier food and you can't control people's actions. However, the government can. Unfortunately, doing something like passing laws related to strong mandates on weight control would probably be seen as discrimination. Thus, first the fat people themselves have to want to lose weight (as a general whole) and then the government can pass laws to force their hands and make them lose weight (this applies to people who can't lose the weight themselves). Of course I'm not sure of such a plan would ever work... but I do know that in order to solve obesity the obese people need to make the first step. Sometimes they do, and lose the weight, and sometimes they don't. Until everyone does, nothing's going to happen. (Although my slingshot idea still stands).

 

[Labyrinth]

By the way people, fat discrimination is seen in the same light as homophobia and misogyny. Be careful lest it become hammertime. If you have a point to make do it politely.

 

[Aloran]

Another thing is eat more smaller meals rather than fewer larger meals (speeds up metabolism).

That just sounds like "snack more"

He is right though. Eating a small meal 6 times a day at roughly 300-400 calories each (a bowl of pasta) is far better than eating 3 meals a day at 700 calories each. It has been proven. The human body is designed for a nomadic lifestyle- "grazing" if you will. As such, our bodies react better to the smaller meals and subsequently burn them off easier due to the less amount, resulting in less weight gained through un-used calories.

 

[crudus]

Another thing is eat more smaller meals rather than fewer larger meals (speeds up metabolism).

That just sounds like "snack more"

Well instead of eating 3 bowls of ramen in one sitting for the day, eat one bowl ever 3-4 hours and your metabolism will be faster than if you did the former. Eating within 30 minutes of waking also increases metabolism.

 

[Puzzles]

I will take a chastity belt if you have one in normal, though.
I do love chastity.

It's your lucky day, they only come in normal!

Spikes on the inside for motivation.

 

[WolfThomas]

HUNGER TUBE!



Seriously though, if we could put every one's daily recommended diet into a paste tube form that could be tailored to each person's specific weight, height etc.

Life would get a lot more easier but at the expense of being a little more boring (I guess you could eat normal food occasionally).

 

[Jast]

My solution about this is to stop freakin' worrying about it. ok! They are bigger than us. We get it. Who cares? Someone's weight is nobody's business but their own.

 

[Puzzles]

M...motivation for what, exactly?

Well, if you put on weight, the spikes start digging in. You drop the weight, the pressure of the spikes relieves.

Or did you mean the normal type of chastity belt? Because I can whip one of them up too.

Spikes optional, for... Pleasure I guess.

 

[Aesthetical Quietus]

... its an interesting idea but then obease people will say its against human rights etc why get treated different than thinner people... altho one thing that annoys me is the fact they pay the same amount for clothes as we do... altho there is more material etc

You aren't paying for the material, you are paying for the brand and the workmanship that went into it.
In that sense, those two variables don't really change when it comes to the size of the clothing. If they were to charge more for bigger sizes, they'd loose some of their customer base, less overhead, but at bigger quantities is always going to be more preferable to more overhead at lesser quantities.

 

[Puppeteer Putin]

Me and my brother were recently discussing the problem of obesity, and came up with a few clever ideas to help put an end to this "epidemic."

Idea 1: Clothing. Continue to make clothing as normal. But clothes can no longer be made in any size above XL.
Hopefully it would result in: obese people being forced to either lose the weight, walk around naked, or make their own clothes.

Idea 2: At any given gym, such as the YMCA, have exercise bikes hooked up to generators, obese people can get paid for using these bikes for a certain amount of time.
Hopefully it would result in: obese people get a workout, jobs are created in a bad economy, and a lower electric bill. These machines would also be available for home usage, perhaps with similar results.

Thoughts? Ideas of your own?

And this (hopefully) has the search bar seal of approval. In my ten second scan, I didn't see this thread.

One does not become "insta skinny". There are those who are naturally built and, thanks to genetics, generally have a larger body mass regardless of their health status. I am such a person. I have been big, and probably always will be, this big.

Hell I was trying to find some jeans that were 38" waist and I was scorned at several outlets, receiving the reply "Sorry, the biggest we have is a 34" ".... Why?? My god damned hips aren't getting smaller you smarmy shop clerk.

Others nor I shouldn't have to be ridiculed for their weight. Yes there are those that gorge and have wild disregard for their own health and they shoud genuinely be helped, but you can be classed as "overweight" and still be perfectly healthy and happy.

Don't judge others body types because your is the socially accepted one. If there are genuine health problems with a friend or family member that has been caused by their obesity, step in and help them. If they are deemed as relatively healthy and what you would consider an "eye-sore" then you should shove your discriminatory disposition in a salad.