disgusting people

[Dr_Evil]

How the hell does someone get to the point of weighing nearly 3/4 ton?

 

[Gabe]

How the hell does someone get to the point of weighing nearly 3/4 ton?

Mental disorder, poor metabolism, trapped with a spouse/housemate that continues to fatten you up even though you're already bedridden. Sad stuff.

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

Its really not that hard, and almost always a symptom of other problems. It also doesn't help that so many of us now have completely sedentary jobs.

The math is also against anyone who isn't active. Typical male will use about 2200 calories per day. But it is so damn easy to eat more calories than that. One big bag of chips during a movie... 1500 calories. One teaspoon of sugar, 25 calories, one cup of milk, 130 calories. 3700 calories of excess and you've gained an extra pound.

Nor is the change immediate, its very gradual, but cumulative. Portion sizes grow, stomachs stretch, calory density increases, meanwhile ironically satisfaction from food decreases. Vicious cycle that many people are trapped in. Many even know they are, but its very difficult to break from.

 

[Pi R Squared]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_heaviest_people
Guinness World Records can confirm.
Also, notice the prevalence of the US in the list

Oh really, well I see none from Canada on that list, maybe you all aren't getting enough to eat. More likely though it's because it's warmer down here, I suppose up there in the arctic you probably burn more calories in that cold weather.

Alan

 

[Gabe]

Oh really, well I see none from Canada on that list, maybe you all aren't getting enough to eat. More likely though it's because it's warmer down here, I suppose up there in the arctic you probably burn more calories in that cold weather.

Alan

It is a curiosity, yea? Especially considering how it was just previously mentioned just how fatty beaver meat is

 

[Pi R Squared]

It is a curiosity, yea? Especially considering how it was just previously mentioned just how fatty beaver meat is

Is beaver commonly eaten up there? The weight thing could be genetic, in very cold climates until modern times probably not just anyone could survive, so maybe the gene pool got less polluted in the cold climates.

Alan

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

More to do with just literally needing more calories to maintain body temperature. Look at the US, colder states also tend to be the thinnest, meanwhile wherever its warm and income is low... Hippos roam.

 

[Gabe]

Is beaver commonly eaten up there? The weight thing could be genetic, in very cold climates until modern times probably not just anyone could survive, so maybe the gene pool got less polluted in the cold climates.

Alan

Nah I was kidding, never had it, nor have I ever heard of anyone trying it. Wouldn't bet against it being considered sacrilege, what with it being our pride and sacred national animal. IE may be right, also it could be that at the time it was possible to get that big, you guys just had access to more food than us.

 

[GSS]

Isnt that strange, that being a glutton at one point was considered being wealthy now adays your just a slob:thinking: LC. this might bring it a tad back to the original thread, I couldnt believe the French were the king of perfume because the huge elaborate castles with hundreds of rooms that they orgied on wine an food didnt have any bathrooms so they did their "business" in the stair wells and came up with fragrances to cover the smell.

 

[Pi R Squared]

Isnt that strange, that being a glutton at one point was considered being wealthy now adays your just a slob:thinking: LC. this might bring it a tad back to the original thread, I couldnt believe the French were the king of perfume because the huge elaborate castles with hundreds of rooms that they orgied on wine an food didnt have any bathrooms so they did their "business" in the stair wells and came up with fragrances to cover the smell.

Thanks for sharing that with us, I just lost my appetite for food and orgies. If you are royalty or nobility and live in a castle then your shit doesn't stink.:crackup:

Alan

 

[GSS]

Thanks for sharing that with us, I just lost my appetite for food and orgies. If you are royalty or nobility and live in a castle then your shit doesn't stink.:crackup:

Alan

Ive been holding that so so so long I just had to tell someone! I actually came across it when I was googling the "Beverly Hillbilys Mansion" I have no clue how I ended up on that though:thinking: Next time you go to orgy just make sure you use the bathroom first:shhh:

 

[Teej]

On forensic investigations, hoarders, meth labs, etc, are always disgusting.

As for overweight poor people, most studies of the phenomenon indicate that its because high calorie foods are cheaper, and fresh fruits and veggies, etc, are too expensive, and, in some neighborhoods, too hard to even find.

Soda, chips, etc...and a prevalence of corn based products, all contribute to under nutrition combined with obesity.

Apparently corn is a really insidious food. On a chemical basis, we metabolize parts of it that cause our systems to malfunction. Its one of the reasons that high fructose corn syrup doesn't get metabolized the way sucrose (table sugar) does...even though a sucrose molecule is essentially glucose combined with fructose molecules. The difference is the isomers of the monosaccharides are not the same, and, different isomers are metabolized differently.

So, superficially, its one of the two sugars combined to make table sugar, but, to combine in the first place, only one isomer of each works, whereas the fructose in corn syrup for example is synthesized with an isomer that is not one of those that combines to make table sugar.

Sugars in general, as they tend to make a lot of crappy foods more palatable, contribute to obesity all by themselves.


Add to it all that we subsidize corn, and penalize sugar, and the price of subsidized corn products in general make them more attractive to producers.

So, its cheaper, and, bad for you...= Biz as usual.

 

[Pi R Squared]

Soda, chips, etc...and a prevalence of corn based products, all contribute to under nutrition combined with obesity.

I have heard before that a lack of proper nutrition contributes to obesity, if you don't get the vitamins and minerls you need you remain more hungry and you eat more, if you get all your vitamins and minerals you will be less hungry and eat less. I don't know how true this is but it sounds reasonable. I also suspect that much of our corn is GMO and I am not convinced that GMO foods are safe. I have also heard that on much of our farmland that the soil is depleted of minerals do to over farming and the foods grown are less nutritious than they used to be.

Alan

 

[Teej]

I have heard before that a lack of proper nutrition contributes to obesity, if you don't get the vitamins and minerls you need you remain more hungry and you eat more, if you get all your vitamins and minerals you will be less hungry and eat less. I don't know how true this is but it sounds reasonable. I also suspect that much of our corn is GMO and I am not convinced that GMO foods are safe. I have also heard that on much of our farmland that the soil is depleted of minerals do to over farming and the foods grown are less nutritious than they used to be.

Alan

GMO is not that different from traditional practices of breeding in traits we like/breeding out traits we don't...its just that in modern times, we can SEE the genes, and just go grab them, instead of waiting for a crop with them to breed with a crop w/o them.

We add fertilizers and minerals, pesticides, etc, to the crops...so, minerals are replaced, but, we also get a ton of other crap too.

The run off from those farms is pretty scary.



And, yeah, to "feel full/sated" after eating, we need certain feed back loops to be activated, and fat for example is one of the triggers. If our blood sugar spikes, we feel like we had enough for example.

PARTS of the feed back loop are based upon metabolic by products, and parts by our taste buds, etc.

So, if we eat sweet stuff, but the loop sensors don't indicate us getting more ENERGY, we keep eating.

You can explode flies like this...put out a plate with saccharine water in it for example, and they drink until they POP....because the taste buds are saying "We found sugar!", but the gut is saying, hmmmm, we need more, we don't register more energy from it yet!

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

You can explode flies like this...put out a plate with saccharine water in it for example, and they drink until they POP....because the taste buds are saying "We found sugar!", but the gut is saying, hmmmm, we need more, we don't register more energy from it yet!

:eg: Going to put that to the test next time I have a fly to kill. Flies are even more annoying that cockroaches as far as I'm concerned.

 

[GSS]

:eg: Going to put that to the test next time I have a fly to kill. Flies are even more annoying that cockroaches as far as I'm concerned.

Im wondering if anyone has tried popping a mosquito by squeezing a tight grip as they are biting you, ive only managed to get them stuck and not be able to fly away. Its not something I have or want to practice much though.