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Dizik wrote:Ayou will be eating a whopping 1880mg of sodium! And that's only if the guy making your food is giving you the correct serving size (i.e. not likely). That's more than 80% of your suggested daily sodium intake! People don't seem to realize that you can be thin and "in-shape" but potentially hurting themselves (especially their heart) due to eating way too much salt.
The second problem is that people think that being "well-muscled" or "ripped" is okay as long as that is what causes them to be "overweight". Unfortunately, it isn't. While "ripped" is definitely preferrable to "fat", our joints (hips, knees, ankles, etc.) and our circulatory systems are only designed to typically handle so much mas
paulWTAMU wrote:The second problem is that people think that being "well-muscled" or "ripped" is okay as long as that is what causes them to be "overweight". Unfortunately, it isn't. While "ripped" is definitely preferrable to "fat", our joints (hips, knees, ankles, etc.) and our circulatory systems are only designed to typically handle so much mas
Only true at real extremes. Someone that regularly squats 800 lbs or something may have knee problems later yes. But you don't have to be that stout and ripped to hit obese on the BMI either. My kid brother is obese and he's not at all overweight--he's a roughneck nowadays, and weighs 260, is 6'1" with a 36" waist ad probably 10% body fat (40 hour weeks of physical labor). He's not huge to the point he's stressing his joints or anything. I mean yeah, someone like Bob Sapp may have health problems from his sheer size, but that's not all or even most of the muscular people that are obese on the BMI.
Captain Ned wrote:Let's just all remember that this insurance discussion can rapidly turn into an R&P topic.
Thanks for listening.
steelcity_ballin wrote:Short answer: Because your diet sucks and you don't exercise enough.
just brew it! wrote:Nit pick: Average life expectancy includes people who died young, so given that you've already made it to 44 your odds of making it past the average are better than 50%.
just brew it! wrote:thegleek wrote:Then I give up. I am trying to curb my normal ways of eating into something that resembles a healthier option. Carbs is something (impossible) to cut out completely. If I am removing all white starches (grains, rice, bread, etc) from my diet, what's the harm in that? It's basically close to a low glycemic diet.
I'm sure it is 10x healthier than what you were doing before!
just brew it! wrote:and beer from my diet for several months.
thegleek wrote:Dizik wrote:Ayou will be eating a whopping 1880mg of sodium! And that's only if the guy making your food is giving you the correct serving size (i.e. not likely). That's more than 80% of your suggested daily sodium intake! People don't seem to realize that you can be thin and "in-shape" but potentially hurting themselves (especially their heart) due to eating way too much salt.
Yup. I agree. But what provides the alternative in these modern days? Home cooked meals isn't always the most convenient you know... So one must OPT for fast food and eat as healthy as possible. Not my fault all these stupid ass places put 10x the amount of sodium into every item they make. There's no winning man. None.
Edit: yes, "fast food" and "healthy" in the same sentence is oxymoron/blasphemy. sue me.
cjcerny wrote:just brew it! wrote:Nit pick: Average life expectancy includes people who died young, so given that you've already made it to 44 your odds of making it past the average are better than 50%.
Point taken. It does not, however, detract from my point that no one ever likes to think of themselves as a statistic--or as being subject to them.
cjcerny wrote:paulWTAMU wrote:The second problem is that people think that being "well-muscled" or "ripped" is okay as long as that is what causes them to be "overweight". Unfortunately, it isn't. While "ripped" is definitely preferrable to "fat", our joints (hips, knees, ankles, etc.) and our circulatory systems are only designed to typically handle so much mas
Only true at real extremes. Someone that regularly squats 800 lbs or something may have knee problems later yes. But you don't have to be that stout and ripped to hit obese on the BMI either. My kid brother is obese and he's not at all overweight--he's a roughneck nowadays, and weighs 260, is 6'1" with a 36" waist ad probably 10% body fat (40 hour weeks of physical labor). He's not huge to the point he's stressing his joints or anything. I mean yeah, someone like Bob Sapp may have health problems from his sheer size, but that's not all or even most of the muscular people that are obese on the BMI.
That's a little myopic. Why do 16 year old drivers pay more for car insurance? Why do smokers pay more for life insurance? Why is weight one of the metrics that health insurers use to determine your health insurance rates? Insurers don't sit around and make up rates. They have smart people who spend lots of time crunching data to determine who is more of a risk and who is less of a risk. It doesn't matter whether your 260 pounds is 100% muscle or not--in the absence of a full physical every so often, their stats are telling them that 260 pounds is going to cost them more in the long run and they want to pass that cost along to you.
paulWTAMU wrote:I'd love to see a study of people that are obese on the BMI with a body fat percentage of 18 or less long term, but I"m unaware of such a study being done.