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"Fat People"

I was watching this programme on ITV a few minutes ago and there were two families on it who were competing to lose the most weight. The winning family won a holiday to America in a 4-star hotel and they got some spending money with it.
To enter for the show though, you've obviously got to be pretty fat so those of us that are currently a reasonable weight don't stand a chance. The way I see it, people are being rewarded for piling on the pounds by being lazy and stuffing their faces then just losing a bit before they more than likely get fat again.
One of the contestants on the winning team started out at 27 stone and was only 13 years old. At the final weigh-in he was still just over 23 stone so does someone like that really deserve such a prize.
I'll admit I'm not the the most active person in the world but I do work hard to make sure I don't become overweight. I suppose I shouldn't be jealous though because I knowing that this holiday is the best thing that'll ever happen to him because at the rate he's going I imagine he'll die when he's 40 from some sort of fat person's disease.
How do people become so amazingly fat?

There's no great secret to getting fat, which is my point. You eat lots of junk food you'll get fat, simple as.

Yes, but getting fat is dependant upon what you eat, not how much food you eat altogether.

If i eat 6 pounds of steak, 5 kilos of potatos, 10 chocolate cakes, 3 full english breakfasts, etc etc

I'm going to get fat no matter what.

Just eating a lot, won't neccessarily make you fat. I eat a reasonable amount every day and I'm really thin.

Forest Fan wrote:
> The secret to being fat

What secret? You eat a lot of food and sit on your ass all day doing nothing you'll get fat, simple as. We're not talking the secret meaning of life here.

The secret to being fat is eating a high-glycemic (sp?) diet, consisting of foods such as cooked carrots, cooked potatoes and worst of all, the daddy; beer. A low glycemic diet consisting of meat, fruit, vegetables, rice and so on is a much lower glycemic diet.

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Oh, and by the way; try this.

[URL]http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm[/URL]

BMI Categories:

Underweight = <18.5
Normal weight = 18.5-24.9
Overweight = 25-29.9
Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater

I got: 15.4

That's well underweight. :) ?

VenomByte wrote:

> I don't think you can really blame this on supermarkets. Poor people
> are perfectly capable of eating healthily, if they choose to. They
> choose not to. Why buy good food and spend time preparing it when you
> can buy some microwave chips and eat five minutes later? That seems
> to be the prevalent attitude. Honestly though, I cannot imagine how
> people can have so little respect for their own bodies.

If there were no supermarkets then where would people get microwave chips from? Would such food have been developed without supermarket culture? Alright, so theres obviously a lot more to it but I think the way food is distributed is detrimental to health.

'They choose not to' - moving a little into Philosophy here, but do they (or we) really make a considered choice? Poor people are more vunerable to advertising, IMO. When you have hour upon hour of what is essentially propeganda beamed out the TV or whatever, your thought process is not going to be 'Shall I or shall I not eat healthily?' but 'I assosiate McDonalds with the branding on the advert, therefore I shall eat McDonalds because I have been conditioned to think it is good'.

Ineedsleep wrote:
> What's all this about BMI and how do you work it out?
>
> * too lazy / busy to browse, sorry.

[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/your_weight/bmiimperial_index.shtml[/URL]

I eat healthily enough, I eat quite a lot during the day, yet I still manage to maintain my 'underweightness'

I reckon fibre is the culprit in this case, everything getting digested quickly.

In Soviet Russia, cucumber chooses you.

Tuna in brine or just water with light salad cream and cucumber.