Obesity a driving factor in COVID-19 deaths

[GW11]

Very convenient that you suddenly were talking to your Doctor ONLY last week and specifically about your guts. NOT.

Try reading some of the science on the matter

https://genesandnutrition.biomedcent...263-017-0566-2

Believe what you like, but family members send you to the doctor when you lose 35 pounds within a year.

Call me a liar. Nice tactic.

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[gbk]

Claiming poverty is root cause of obesity should know the price calculation principles of any food joint.
If You buy the food (does not matter at McDonalds or at The Keg)You are paying 3.3 times more then You would pay IF you would make that very same meal at home.

No brainer, buy quality food for 50 % of McDonalds price-and cook it Yourself.
Only catch may be-that there is work involved there.

For the gut issues ,there is an ages old calculation to help:

if one needs 2500 KCal a day, one needs to eat 2500 K Cal a day.

Rest is marketing!

[smitty55]

Ever check out the fat food outlets in Canada, they are always full of people and not poor people. Cost more to eat at a fast food place then to eat at home.

No kidding, for the price of one fast food burger I can buy a pound of ground and make four burgers with fixings for the same price and I actually know what's in the food I'm eating. The real shame is that Gilly isn't intelligent enough to realize that, but no surprise there lol.

[JBen]

I am not sure why people can’t pause to think about things that just make sense logically.

Obesity:
I would think a ( not the) main cause in the US. Is the portions served. Whether at home, or at Golden griddle, or the Keg. Americans over eat.....

Then, we have junk food. Chips, pop, Twinkies, ice cream, pizza, frozen dinners, and processed crap. All very cheap relative to expensive vegetables, meat and organic.

The disadvanted.
Tend to be in poor health. They don’t eat well, don’t have access to healthcare, and memberships at swank gyms. They die years before the haves, Covid or no.Wonder why...

And while they certainly don’t eat out a ton gobbling down super sized portions loaded with gravy. But they do eat crap. Lots of it.

That doesn’t mean they too aren’t in poor health or obese. Mac and cheese has been a staple of college kids for generations.

Covid.
Has ravaged “have nots”. They tend to live in high density housing. 3,000 sq foot eye sores and jonesing and showing off their wealth not for them. High rises, row housing, packed in like sardines. Most don’t have the luxury of working safely from home and coasting to shore. And given their general poor relative poor health, poor eating habits...

Take your pick....

https://www.ottawaheart.ca/the-beat/...id-19-pandemic

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...ethnicity.html



https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hs...uities-in-u-s/

Of coarse white privelage doesn’t exist

[Jakezilla]

You know why most people are fat? They take in more calories than they burn. It's not any more complicated than that.

Yes there are things like thyroid issues or any other medical reason you can dig up but those people are in the minority.

People use all kinds of different excuses to justify their weight instead of accepting personal responsibility for their situation. Again, I agree, there are people in special circumstances but they are in the minority. Excuses and passing blame are easy, this is the route most people take with regards to their weight and other things in their lives.

[gbk]

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People use all kinds of different excuses to justify their weight instead of accepting personal responsibility for their situation.... Excuses and passing blame are easy, this is the route most people take with regards to their weight and other things in their lives.

X2

There is one factor-some ppl get in the vicious circle, and they have hard time getting out from it. Where society PLUS Governement could help?-with encouraging healthy eating habits from the get go,and providing a culture of easily available(do not mean low cost, when saying available-but READILY available)healthy food.

If one REALLY wants to see what is one of the single major factor of obesity is, and how the obesity problem itself is handled in the USA, watch the movie FED UP.
The 3 Young presented struggling with the obesity-the politics behind the issue-the pushback on many levels..........remarkable.

Share Your opinion after You watch it.

[JBen]

Just a couple weeks ago, FB, and tv were filled with ads and platters of Nachos dripping with cheese. Chicken wings smothered in sugar loaded BBQ sauces.

Super Bowl.....of junk
Super sized helpings of everything. 20 ounce steaks, and 20 twinkies.

I know a person who thinks they eat healthy. Lots of chicken, pork, some greens, spuds. And everything smothered in butter/margarine, sauces and sugar.
and not in small amounts...

[impact]

This brings into question of why the heck they closed down gyms during this pandemic?
Ski hills in Ontario?
Limiting toboggan hills to 25 people? Are you kidding me!
All opportunities lost for exercise and burn off calories regardless if you are having healthy meals or not.

What the heck were they thinking? Fitness operators went out of their way to ensure cleanliness of their facilities.
The long term repercussions will be felt in the not so long distant future.

[Badenoch]

Contributing to obesity are fast food and junk food companies spending billions to bombard the airwaves promoting unhealthy food. Try watching television when you are very hungry to see how often fast food is advertised.

[MikePal]

What the heck were they thinking? Fitness operators went out of their way to ensure cleanliness of their facilities.
The long term repercussions will be felt in the not so long distant future.

Your right...they knew early on comorbidity issues were going to drive up the death numbers yet they did little help people shed pounds for the past year....actually discouraged it, stay home, watch TV.