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Working mothers who don't have the time or inclination to prepare a nutritious evening meal for their children so they take them to McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, etc where the kids gorge on cheeseburgers, fries and shakes.
I worked 5 in a half days a week and still cooked for my family, both my son and daughter in law prep meals for the week. Crockpots, instant pots, and outside grill are very helpful, make ahead casseroles .
People don’t move around enough anymore and most of the jobs are just sedentary white collar jobs where you sit on your fat rear end all day
The whole system of America today was DOOMED to fail from the beginning with the onset of all this technology
I prefer to stay blue collar because it will at least keep you healthy as you advance in age. Most people I see with countless medical issues are the ones that sit in a chair all day every day. The Human body wasn’t made a sedentary lifestyle 7 days a week
Soy and soybean oil in foods is horrible, read your ingredient labels carefully and avoid. Also avoid wheat like the plague, it is an appetite stimulant that causes all kinds of inflammatory responses un many people.
Eating a high fat diet also increases inflammation. Just sayin
I worked 5 in a half days a week and still cooked for my family, both my son and daughter in law prep meals for the week. Crockpots, instant pots, and outside grill are very helpful, make ahead casseroles .
It takes me like 4 hours a week in the kitchen to prep a full week's worth of meals for myself. It would probably take only 1 or 2 hours more to do it for a family. It's really not that hard, and if you factor in time driving to restaurants, waiting in drive through lines, and the time spent to earn the money for gas and fast food costs, you come out ahead doing it at home too. I think fat people are just too addicted to bad food lol.
While I think a lot of the reason is poor diet and lack of exercise, there might be a third factor as well. It's interesting that lab animals and other captive animals (whose diets are strictly measured and controlled) are also getting fatter even though their diets haven't changed in decades. Pets are getting fatter too as are wild/feral animals that live near humans. Scientists don't know why yet but they suspect environmental factors.
I lost weight during the pandemic, but gained all of it back in less than a month when I decided to switch diets (the old was was really restrictive and boring). After the weight gain, I decided to try intermittent fasting. Nothing yet as far as weight loss goes, but I know once the community pool opens I will lose weight. I swim every day I can in the summer in addition to my regular exercise and it always trims me down and gives me more definition.
Sounds like speculation and even they admit to merely speculating.
"Now, we don't know why these increases occurred, but it invites some very interesting speculation," Allison says.
I bet if you tracked the data you will just see they just ate in more of a caloric surplus.
It's because we tend to like instant results. We buy into fads. The person who does the "Atkins" or "Keto" thinks that they can eat all the bacon they want but they fail to recognize that even that has calories. They are too lazy to actually research the way of eating to realize they are to eat as many green veggies.
I prefer to stay blue collar because it will at least keep you healthy as you advance in age.
My brother in law is 27 and his job is to load furniture from a warehouse into a truck and then delivers it around the city. He blew out his knee a few months ago which would take a few months to rehab properly but he only got like 2 days off. So he just kept working through it and now he has a horrible limp.
I work from home on a computer all day and I'm way healthier now than when I had to drive in to the office. Less time sitting in the car, and I used my savings from not commuting to buy a really nice ergonomic setup in my office. Also I can stand up and stretch whenever I want without having people look over my shoulder and remind me about deadlines lol. Also when I'm in long meetings that I only need to listen to and not talk I can walk around, stretch, do calisthenics, etc. In the office I had to sit there and pretend to be super interested.
So I think work from home reduces all the negative aspects of white collar work. People are fat because they want to be, end of story.
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