Is obesity really an addiction to food or laziness?
Beady Eye 2013
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I mean they say there are foods that make you feel better at sex, fat, poisoned, ill or even better, any of it true?
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Beady Eye 2013
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Emotion, yep, certainly correct. if I feel fed up, i normally eat more, in fact I pick and I will go out and buy some chocolate.
Then the problem is I feel guilty of doing it and it make me feel even more fed up.
Is part of the problem not having compulsary Home Economics in schools any more?
Then you have the people who tie in food with how they feel, I find this to be more common in women though. For example someone is miserable today so will eat something indulgent to 'make them feel better'.
Smudges dad, it was when I was at school over a decade ago but you don't learn enough of the basics in my opinion and I think in terms of actual cooking time I did maybe 10 hours per year which is poor really.
I have been on a diet for six months. Lost no weight - and that's after exercising 90 minutes per day and being on a calorie controlled diet.
Explain that?
Those of us who can afford to fill our fridge/freezer and cupboards with food should think ourselves lucky these days.
I can't explain it. Unless you are a miracle of biology then it is impossible not to lose weight if you are expending more calories than you are consuming.
I lost over 2 stones a couple of years ago and I managed to keep them off. But without me constantly monitoring my food I could easily put the weight back on again.
Apart from walking the dogs, I don't exercise. I think obesity is a case of loving food and not excersing. My husband is very slim. He doesn't exercise but he doesn't get any pleasure from food so he doesn't think to eat. He is one of those people that says 'I forgot to eat lunch today'. I could NEVER forget to eat lunch. I think of food all the time.
Definitely and that would be part of the education but realistically that wouldn't start until the child was 11 years old and by that time far too many have been given sweet foods, fizzy drinks etc. on demand for too many years. I had domestic science at school from the age of 11 to 14 which, each year, was a term,of cookery, a term of dress making, and a term of recycling furniture clothes etc.and it did give me the basics. Also, I spent a lot of time in the kitchen with my mum when I was very young and although she wasn't a great cook, again, I learned the basics. What we didn't learn back then was nutrition and that should definitely be taught in primary school today. The problem we've had for a few years now, though, is that too many parents don't know how to cook so how can they teach their children?
Rubbish! Convenience food is more expensive than fresh ingredients. Anyone who uses that as an excuse for being obese is just trying to cover up that they're lazy and can't be bothered to cook from scratch or use ingredients because they think it is far easier to just shove something already made in the oven.
Fresh vegetables can be dirt cheap - go to a market, or a proper greengrocer and see the prices. Also, most supermarkets now have "value" fresh fruit and veg that aren't always cosmetically the prettiest but still taste the same and have the same nutritional value as the more expensive "perfect" ones.
The fruit may be cheap but all the other stuff such as bills and toiletries and clothing etc aren't dirt cheap. I agree though some prioritising maybe needed.
Well, either the 'controlled' amount of calories you are giving yourself is too much or your diet is completely wrong. If you are truly doing 90mins exercise a day + eating healthily you should be dropping weight - even if its only a lb a week
Sorry, but your wrong. Bottom line for low income families is calories, full bellies and even 'value' fruit, veg and meat is often out or their budget. Its not always ready meals as such but often chips, burgers, sausages fish fingers et al. Budget is a bigger factor than ignorance of food or being lazy very often, more so than the stereotypical image of people that you seem keen to see.
You're genralising a whole culture of struggling families you know...
It's not always lack of money. I know an obese couple who have plenty of money but live off pizza and ready meals and will not touch fruit and vegetables. They are addicted to fat, sugar and salt without a doubt.
Surely their bodies must be in a terrible state, even if they are skinny :eek:
Its not always down to laziness or lack of money.
I speak from experience
Yep, Medical conditions such as hormonal imbalance i.e hypothyroidism, Cushing's syndrome can make people gain weight even though they eat the right amount of calories per day.
Yes, of course. We can all see that but they either can't or won't. It's taken me a long time but I've reached the conclusion that it is their life to lead as they wish, a hard stance to take when all around there are healthy eating messages.