What about those who consume huge amounts of hormones injected into our meets that we purchase in the supermarket. The biggest issues with obesity begin in females going through puberty. Those are the most at risk for over consumption of such hormones as their own estrogen levels are fluctuating and causing some normal weight gain anyway. The epidemic was non-existent before this. People back then did eat a lot of calories, and fats, and yes they ate sugars and other such terrible things and yes they were more active, but I'm talking even up until the 80's there was way less obesity in young women. Now a days it seems a girl enters puberty and immediately begins to "blossom" into an obese teen.
I've never met an obese teen girl athlete. (And by athlete, I mean ATHLETE, not just someone who made the soccer team.) I see lots of obese teen girls in my neighborhood....on their way back from the pizza joint and on their way to 7-11 to buy candy, and then watching their daily "activity" of sitting on the curb. I gained a lot of weight during my first pregnancy...because I ate like crap and didn't feel like working out anymore, and because my sports days were over so my metabolism naturally slowed down when I stopped working out. REALLY thankful I made THOSE decisions...but regardless...I went back to my nutrition basics (calories in, calories out, create the deficit), and started eating things in the right ORDER again in order to process it correctly, and magically I'm back to the size I was when I got pregnant. I might run every day, but I'm nowhere NEAR where I was when I was playing college volleyball and that's frustrating to me. So my goal by the end of this year is to have my college sports body back to the extent you can do that at age 30 and after two kids (regardless, no matter how hard I try, I can't lose my ASS, but I've come to grips with that). Thank goodness I have a friend who's doing the same thing (just in the opposite direction and trying to put ON weight) who's going to start kicking my ass in the gym in about a month after I get through my current phase of the process.
Certainly we can agree that genetically modified food is having a negative impact on our health on multiple fronts (www.seedsofdeception.com). It all comes down to taking the responsibility to educate yourself and your loved ones on such risks, and seeking out healthier alternatives which are certainly out there. The next challenge then becomes the cost factor as usually healthier options are the more expensive options, which is one of the prime indicators why we are seeing the overweight/obesity problem explode the fastest in the poorer neighborhoods. There are no simple answers, no quick fix to the problems we as a nation face, if it was easy to be wealthy, then 95.7% of us would not have to depend on family, charity, or the government in retirement (U.S. department of Health and Human Services), if it was easy to have a happy marriage the divorce rate would not be as high as it is, if it was easy and cheap to attain higher education, then the majority of the population would have higher ed degrees not the other way around, and if it was easy to be fit and healthy we would not have the epidemic we are facing now.
eat healthy and exercise on a regular basis...meditate...yoga, pilates..whatever floats your boat pay less attention to the size of your dress or the number on a scale you know if you are a "natural" skinny, medium, thick or fat...if you tend towards being large...you may have to work a bit harder to keep the weight off...more cardio and moderate amounts of weight training...if you are a thinner woman...a little extra weight training won't hurt to strengthen bones and give you some extra shape...for us medium folks...cardio and weight training in equal parts....remember that some people are big and that there is only so much they can do to change it...the same way that a 90 lb woman that eats a lot but is still skinny is accepted for just being small
I'm 5'9" 40/29/41 and my last boyfriend told me that I was too thin to be thick.-lol. If you are a man who prefers a woman who is thick or curvy, how do you feel about how she dresses it up in public?
