Scary Obesity Diagram

**aestheticmind** · 09-14-2009, 04:38 PM

***D7M*** · 09-14-2009, 04:40 PM

I'm assuming the percentages refer to the amount of obese people reported?

**stack_it** · 09-14-2009, 04:50 PM

1985?

**NMacFar** · 09-14-2009, 05:02 PM

This is pretty interesting, especially since I was born in 1985. Good post.

Any idea how accurate this is?

**chicmagnet** · 09-14-2009, 05:04 PM

Macdonalds started before '85? What a legacy.

**Tock** · 09-14-2009, 05:52 PM

**Older lifter** · 09-14-2009, 08:26 PM

Hahaha,,, the fatter everyone else get the better chance i get at the thin hot ones.....

**amcon** · 09-14-2009, 08:39 PM

cool post

**Pac Man** · 09-14-2009, 08:50 PM

Nice, we need a freaking famine

**Darksyde** · 09-14-2009, 09:11 PM

it doesnt really matter, its all over in 2012

**Pac Man** · 09-14-2009, 09:32 PM

We can only hope

**IM708** · 09-14-2009, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by Darksyde

it doesnt really matter, its all over in 2012

Ahh, that damn mayan clock reimmerges again...

**jbm** · 09-14-2009, 09:36 PM

We need a lot more gyms!

**Charlie6** · 09-14-2009, 10:19 PM

we need to put clen in the water systems

**aestheticmind** · 09-16-2009, 09:43 AM

my favorite part is how louisana is red in 2005, and then down to orange in 2006...

i guess all the fat people floated away during hurricane katrina!

**Kratos** · 09-16-2009, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Tock

the whole trans fat thing is a load of BS tock, because the alternative is saturated fat. Trans fat is worse, but not all that much. A saturated fat diet is not as good as a low fat diet...and that takes better consumer choices.

Trans fats don't make people fat, poor choices do...tell you what do an experiment with rats eating trans fats vs saturated fats and you'll notice both rats get fat.

**Kratos** · 09-16-2009, 10:17 AM

my state is still dark blue, you bunch of fatties, woot

**Misery13** · 09-16-2009, 10:34 AM

totally huge...

**Dont wanna be old** · 09-16-2009, 10:35 AM

I believe the colors are equal to economics in food that people can afford .

Didn't all this decline begin a couple years before NAFTA ?

**Tock** · 09-16-2009, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by Kratos

the whole trans fat thing is a load of BS tock, because the alternative is saturated fat. Trans fat is worse, but not all that much. A saturated fat diet is not as good as a low fat diet...and that takes better consumer choices.

Trans fats don't make people fat, poor choices do...tell you what do an experiment with rats eating trans fats vs saturated fats and you'll notice both rats get fat.

There's polyunsaturated fat and monounsaturated fat.

But geez, did you see that 4 year old McDonald hamburger and fries? It looked as good as new. Food that won't go bad can't be any good at all.

**chicmagnet** · 09-17-2009, 03:49 AM

I'm around 12%bf and still classed as obese, I wonder how many like myself are included in these stats.

**Kratos** · 09-17-2009, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by Tock

There's polyunsaturated fat and monounsaturated fat.

But geez, did you see that 4 year old McDonald hamburger and fries? It looked as good as new. Food that won't go bad can't be any good at all.

yes I know...it just mean either you've got C-C-C-C-C = Totally saturated because they are all single bonds...in other words all the open bonds are taken by hydrogen making a chain of single bonds or C=C-C=C-C....wher some of the hydrogen bonds are taken up by double bonds...in other words the chain is not saturated by hydrogen.

The more "saturated" a fat is the more thick it is at room temperature...think of oil vs butter...so any saturated fat replacing a trans fat will have to be saturated enough to replace the viscosity requirements the trans fat was filling.

This is a problem becuase of membrane permiability...the more saturated a fat the "tighter" your cell membranes and the more cholesterol your body must make to compensate.

Anyway, trans fat is overblown as the enemy...and they aren't what's preserving a McD's hamberger. In fact, I call hoax on that, evidence from experiments conducted under my car seat in college suggest that McDonald's hamburgers will decay quite quickly.