I'm a health nut?

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  1. sawyer

    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So I just returned from a family visit where my sister called me a health nut because I don't eat sugar or any junk food and I watch my weight and get plenty of exercise. She on the other hand is obese and has type 2 diabetes but I'm a nut. It made me realize though how fooked up our American society is when it comes to food and health. Everywhere you look is fast food and fat people and if you are fit and trim you stand out like a sore thumb. Went out to eat with in laws while on this family visit and they topped burger and fries meal off with a huge desert and looked at me sideways when I said no thanks. One of them said " geeez quit worrying about your waist line for once". WTF? Why can't they understand it's about health not vanity? I'm in my 60s now and have seen the effects of lifestyle decisions on old friends and family and the proof is in the pudding (literally). I'm trying to squeeze out all the quality years I can during this stage of life and flatten out the glide path we are all on towards old age infirmity but get looked at as a nut for doing so. Rant over, thanks for your indulgence.
     
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    CourtJester Well-Known Member

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    My guess from your post is you have a tendency to be overly preachy and obsessive. Just the statement that you think you stand out like a sore thumb because you are fit and trim seems an indication of a problem
     
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    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Actually I make a point not to preach and keep my opinion to myself. Sticking out like a sore thumb is the way I sometimes feel in a crowd though. Seems like 90% of America is obese.
     
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    michiganFats New Member

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    I'm much the same as you. As I got older I stopped eating junk and started to exercise regularly and realized I had to maintain a healthy weight. Some people, too many in my opinion, think I'm strange for doing that. I've also had to listen to complete fatties telling me there's something wrong with me.
     
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    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That is my point here, taking good care of yourself is now seen as being nutty. It's a sad commentary on our society.
     
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    JoakimFlorence Banned

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    Maybe it's where you live. I've noticed there seems to be a lot more fat people in some parts of the country. Probably has to do with culture and diet, and in the South it's so hot and humid that people don't feel like moving around too much, so that means less physical activity.
     
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    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I really noticed this on a recent trip to California. To be fair though I was leaving Costco checkout and making my way through the crowd lined up for all the fast food crap at the front of the store.
     
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    Doug_yvr Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How condescending. You must be a downer at family get togethers.
     
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    Because it suits them not to... if they are overweight and you are vain it puts you on even footing
     
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    your over thinking it.... congrads on resiting the temptations of life, but you live your life, they live theirs
     
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    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You know I am and am not a downer as you put it. On the one hand I refuse to participate in the sugar binges and junk food orgies but while the rest of them are nursing head aches, heartburn and taking naps I'm exploring the local MT bike trails and having a great time. I am interested though in how you find my OP condescending.
     
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    It's probably fatties objecting.
     
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    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Hard to watch people you love kill themselves though. My sis with type 2 diabetes eats like crap and thinks she's fine because her medication has her blood sugar levels under control
     
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    I wasn't getting the "I am concerned about their health" from the op post though, so that was not where my reply was directed
     
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    I've dropped from 135 to 118 during this flare up of ulcerative colitis and was hospitalized for 2 weeks where I dropped another 10 pounds. I'm a week out of the hospital and can't seem to gain much over 109. I wish I could stuff my face with junk food but that would make things worse and I'd lose more weight. People tell me all the time to get some skin on my bones. Ya I wish I could. Even before this people would comment negatively on my weight when I was the perfect weight for my height. Fat people aren't satisfied unless they know you are like them.

    I think once you're so fat you just accept it and don't care anymore. That is when they try to make new fatties. It's a recruitment. If everyone around them Is like them they feel better.
     
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    yep, pushers, we should ban food, it's addictive to many :)

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    Yep, you're a fattie. Take care of yourself.
     
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    no, I am not, but know many victims of food, we should ban all food as it's been shown to be addictive to some

    insert your own images of deformed people addicted to food here, people that have lost limbs, ect... put a warning label on all fast food ;) with pictures.... just like we do with cigarettes

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    Junk food isn't food, it's junk.
     
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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes. Anyone who does not eat peanut butter cups is nuts. That is why God created the universe--just so we could enjoy those things. They are manna.
     
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    so we should ban junk food....?

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    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No just don't call it food. People don't get addicted as you put it to food, they get addicted to junk masquerading as food. Putting a pic of a morbidly obese person in a wheel chair with a leg cut off due to diabetes on heavily sugared crap isn't that bad of an idea though
     
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    should we tax it 500% like Cigarettes?

    yep, warning labels like cigarettes, lets do it... the precedent was already set....

    I of course prefer we not do this, but if we do it for cigarettes, we should do it for everything

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    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am not for so called sin taxes, I am for education and knowledge . If you know the facts and choose to kill yourself, be my guest it's your life
     
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    Rev. Pat Robertson always sayin' nuts is good fer ya...
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    Daily Handful of Nuts Reduces Disease Risk: Study
    December 05, 2016 - The next time you’re hungry for a snack, you may want to grab a handful of nuts, as new research suggests they lower the risk of heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
     

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