Death Defying Meat!

So I finally sat down and watched "Super Size Me".  About 95% is the same shit different day.  I had to force myself to sit through it although I was ready to shut it off within five minutes as soon as I heard the debunked "Obesity kills 400,000!"

What I got from the movie is that fat people are not only at fault for eating junk food but we are nothing but fat bellies and asses.   I for one am tired of being an object to be targeted by everyone and blamed for every single ailment out there (the movie has a segment which pretty much blames all physical illnesses on being fat).

The only thing this movie did for me was cure insomnia and give me another reason to dislike Subway Jared (btw  the narrator never groups Subway with the other fast food chains).  Jared essentially told an impressionable young girl that she can’t change the world, she is the one that has to change. 

The narrator of the movie who’s name I forgot gained about 25lbs and  he lost most of it in five months when he stopped eating McDonalds.   It actually goes with the study done in the fifties that it is actually HARD to gain weight and easy to lose if you are genetically slim.

The movie has one kudos.  He actually devoted about 2 minutes (of a 98 minute movie) on the enormous pressure on teenage girls to be thin.

So if you stop eating McDonalds you will become thin, I kid you not.  As I said same shit, different day.

And speaking of SSDD.  PETA is bashing fat folks again.  They thinks that the law in Mississippi should be changed not so  much that fat people can't be served but they should only be served vegan food (Because there are no fat vegetarians and no thin meat eaters).  I think PETA should go about their normal business of killing the animals they promise to find homes for.

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[AnnieMcPhee]

I liked the one guy, though, who eats about 4 Big Macs every single day, is thin, and has perfect blood pressure and cholesterol. Take THAT, Morgan freaking Spurlock.

The way he touted weight loss surgery was awful too. What bugged me is the guy was lying in the hospital bed awaiting surgery and he had a gigantic tub/thermos of soda (apparently he drank like a gallon or more of soda per day.) But he needs WLS to cure his diabetes? Why not put down the giant tub of fucking soda if your sugar is bad? Why mutilate your digestive system? It seemed so ridiculous.

I haven't seen that movie since finding FA and reading all that I've read...maybe I actually will watch it again with new eyes. However, one main point is this - no one eats McDonald's 3 times a day, every single day, and makes it a point to eat every single thing on the menu. I don't know what exactly the experiment was supposed to prove. And his girlfriend annoyed the shit out of me too. (Funny, how he was a rather unwilling Vegan just because she was a vegan, so when he first started eating the Big Macs and burgers, he was just in heaven - that whole deprivation thing.)

[vesta44]

I haven't had any use for PETA ever since I read that they killed most of the pets turned over to them. I wouldn't give PETA a cockroach, let alone a pet I loved (find it a new home, my ass, kill it is more likely, and not in a humane manner either, from what I read way back when). They seem to be fanatics, and you can't reason with a fanatic (not all of them are, but a good many are).

[Sandy]

"...Because there are no fat vegetarians..."

Stupid a*ssclowns.

WTF-ever. I have a few vegan friends who are F A T.

[Natalie]

No fat vegetarians?

Ha.

Ha ha.

HA HA HAHAH!!

HAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAH!

*snorts and wipes tear of laughter from one eye, settles down, pats her large belly and gets back to her vegetarian hamburger*

The dudes name is Morgan Spurlock, by the way. The film isn't entirely bad - as a non-American I found it a super-duper interesting documentary on American consumption in general. Not just OMGZ teh fattiez unly eatz McDonaldz lol!!1!. Unfortunately the dark side of that consumption is McDonalds. I personally didn't see the film as an attack on fat people (and I am fat myself) but more on McDOnalds and its ethics (or lack thereof)

[wriggles]

If you believe that McD's is intrinsically harmful, nutritionally then why not trust the truth rather than not having the courage of your convictions?

Spurlock decided to eat every bit of food and 'Supersize' when asked,both these things alone totally ignored his body's hunger signals and nutritional needs. After restricting himself to McD's why didn't he just eat only what he wanted and 'Supersize' only if his hunger dictated it? I suspect that not only would that have had any health deficits whatsoever, but his weight wouldn't have been affected he could even have lost weight, as others who have done the same experiment have. He claimed that he wanted to eat McD's like Americans do, but if people have desire for this kind of food, they are following internal diktats, not overriding them- he ate 'til he voimitted- therefore the equation is totally different. The body is bound to respond differently as it is demanding the food in the first place, whether that person is fat or thin.

[Just Passin' Thru]

(I guess this is more of that fat-bashing propaganda)

Strokes among middle-aged women triple
Doctors blame rise in belly fat for spike, despite blood pressure medications
The Associated Press
updated 4:39 p.m. ET, Wed., Feb. 20, 2008

NEW ORLEANS - Strokes have tripled in recent years among middle-aged women in the U.S., an alarming trend doctors blame on the obesity epidemic.

Nearly 2 percent of women ages 35 to 54 reported suffering a stroke in the most recent federal health survey, from 1999 to 2004. Only about half a percent did in the previous survey, from 1988 to 1994.

The percentage is small because most strokes occur in older people. But the sudden spike in middle age and the reasons behind it are ominous, doctors said in research presented Wednesday at a medical conference.

It happened even though more women in the recent survey were on medicines to control their cholesterol and blood pressure — steps that lower the risk of stroke.

Women's waistlines are nearly two inches bigger than they were a decade earlier, and that bulge corresponds with the increase in strokes, researchers said.

In addition, women's average body mass index, a commonly used measure of obesity, rose from 27 in the earlier survey to 29. They also had higher blood sugar levels.

No other traditional risk factors like smoking, heart disease or diabetes changed enough between the two surveys to account for the increase in strokes.

'An alarming increase'
In a "pre-stroke population" of middle-age women, a tripling of cases is "an alarming increase," said Dr. Ralph Sacco, neurology chief at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

The study was led by Dr. Amytis Towfighi, a neurology specialist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and presented at the International Stroke Conference in New Orleans.

She used the National Health and Nutrition Surveys, a federally funded project that gives periodic health checkups and questionnaires to a wide sample of Americans. Participants are routinely asked whether a doctor had ever told them they had had a stroke, and about 5,000 middle-aged people answered that question in each survey.

Researchers saw that the stroke rate had spiked in middle-aged women but stayed about the same — around 1 percent — in middle-aged men. So they looked deeper at the responses to see if they could learn why.

Belly fat stood out, Towfighi said. The portion of women with abdominal obesity rose from 47 percent in the earlier survey to 59 percent in the recent one. The change in men was smaller, and previous studies have shown that "abdominal obesity is a stronger risk factor for women than men," she said.

Men traditionally have had a greater risk of stroke than women, and "women start catching up to men five or 10 years after menopause," said Dr. Philip Gorelick, neurology chief at the University of Illinois in Chicago and chairman of the stroke conference.

The new research means "we need to redefine our textbooks about stroke in women," because they may now be more at risk in middle age than men.

Obesity "sets the stage for all the other risk factors to come in" like diabetes and heart disease, Gorelick added.

More deadly at hospitals at night
In other news at the conference, two studies found that stroke patients were more likely to die if they went to hospitals on nights or weekends, echoing other recent studies that found similar risks for heart attack and surgery patients.

Michigan State University doctors analyzed 222,500 stroke cases at more than 850 hospitals participating in an American Heart Association quality improvement program from 2003 to 2007.

In-hospital deaths were about 6 percent for those who arrived during normal business hours and had strokes caused by a clot, compared with 5 percent of those who entered the hospital after-hours. Deaths were 27 percent for off-hour strokes caused by bleeding in the brain versus 24 percent during normal hours.

A second study of 2.4 million stroke patients in California found death rates of 10 percent on weekends and nights versus 8 percent during weekdays.

Despite the poorer outcomes, doctors said no one should ever delay getting help, since any delay raises the risk of death. The best treatments can only be given in the first few hours after symptoms appear.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23260665/

[fatchicksrule]

All the more point that being fat is blamed for everything. It was assumed that because women are fatter that must be a reason they are having more strokes.

There are no indication of other factors in women:
1. More women work now then they did before.
2. Women are smoking more.
3. Women diet more than men which leads to Yoyo dieting something far more dangerous to health than being fat.
4. Women tend to suffer more from eating disorders.

As said before I'm first in line to say McDonalds is unhealthy and everyone regardless of size should be eating there sparingly. That being said I refused to be the scapegoat for the health woes of society.

[Stephen M (Ethesis)]

My daughter, who is only eight, got caught trying to start a diet. She wanted to weight 20 pounds, because of something she had heard on a TV show.

Garghhhh.