Is the recession making Americans fatter?

Fructose causes a corruption of body functions, resulting in belt overlap, and belt overlap is a big indicator of developing heart trouble. We are all born with imperfections, no one is perfect, but the Food manufacturers began adding more corruption because they discovered in the early 1950's CONSUMERS PURCHASED MORE WHEN FRUCTOSE WAS ADDED.

That isn't inherited imperfection that's deliberate corruption of the human body. So the cell mitochondria stopped doing the hard work, conversion of body fat to have energy because people started slopping down food and sodas farmers don't feed their pigs.

Sugars and caffeine adds to the fructose corruption, all corrupting the energy conversion and stopping it, causing us to become sugar-dependent and caffeine-dependent shadows of what a human being should be.

Eat too much of what? Look at the ingredients. Does a human being need to be preserved? Do we need extra color or flavoring?

Corn fructose is already being outlawed in Australia because their scientists found it turns off a part of the brain connected with metabolism.

Americans get dished a plate of crap so they start looking like crap.

Duh.

I think they're getting fatter because they eat too much...

Diseases enter into us through the mouth. This makes the human mouth a DISEASE PORTAL. But of course Medicare doesn't pay for dental care.

And of course obesity-reducing surgery well, that has to be cosmetic, so it joins dental that's also primarily cosmetic, so technically the entire population is dying from not receiving paid cosmetic.

Modern Medicine? WHERE?! This is evidence of 13th century thinking. Infants die during birth more in America than "lesser" countries. People aren't stupid. They see the lie, and this little dance the health insurance industry does to avoid addressing the two most influential determinants that have been driving a stake into the national budget.

I get my health care from online nutrition products sellers. These charlatans and groups of el stupidos aren't even good snake oil salesmen.

It's one thing for somebody to "rant" and then comes whining and complaining behind that insult, but I'm not ranting, I'm not whining but I do my share of complaining because of doctors ignoring all these issues I went through Gout, every circulatory disease, 3 anginas January 2008, two complete heart stoppages here at home and a MAJOR HEART INFARCTION.

If doctors want to kill me then grow some balls and come over here and do it. Otherwise dig around somewhere til you find your heart, muscle up some brains and compassion and DO YOUR JOBS.

HEAL PEOPLE. And quit whining about your Pay being so low because fellows, if you don't get with the program your paycheck is going down the 10th Floor toilet.

Fat is a single word used to describe a MULTITUDE OF ISSUES. As people age they come in contact with every bacteria, virus and microbe, MOLD SPORES THAT SINK ROOTS INTO YOUR SINUSES AND STOMACH FAT. Bodyfat (adipose tissue) gives all these Living Organisms a place to live. People age past 30 and 35 they accumulate all this living material living inside their fat.

So the stomach fat that began as "just fat tissue" morphs into a living organism conglomerate and begins producing Creative-Reactive Protein and cortisol, plus all those organisms are crapping all the time so your Immune System gets so overworked it starts malfunctioning.

And MEDICARE refuses to pay to have it surgeried off. Hospitals & their physicians claims it would be Cosmetic Surgery. A patient is sick and they all tell ya to go straight to Hell pay for it any way you can.

That is why everybody is staying sick for. Health insurance providers pass the buck so Medicare is paying for expensive aftercare somewhere down the road from a waterfall of cascading illnesses and afflictions.

I saw a way to stop it back in 1996 => http://tinyurl.com/ParadiseWeightLosst
13 years ago when the Obesity Epidemic should have NEVER STARTED.

Being poor/having less money can and will make you fat. Compare the cost of a bag of apples to a box of little debbies the next time you're at the store.

I've been poor and fat so I know.

There are too many thin people out there that have no sympathy for overweight people... Although I see some really obese people and wonder how they got that way... I've been fighting obesity all my life I was a fat baby 11 pounds 10 oz... and a fat kid 200+ pounds at 12 years old... and a fat man up to 350 pounds...
Only recently have I discovered the way to lose weight...
And that is reducing your glycemic load... ie starches, sugars, empty carbs like pasta, bleached rice, flour, potatoes and such...
I'm now down to 275 and counting... and I love it...
For more information on glycemic load go to Nutritiondata.com

I have a black hole in my stomach ^_^

So... no, the economy is not affecting my weight...

I'd actually be happy to gain a pound or two...

lol...cry some more John...

anyways, I'd have no problem w/ a tax on heavily refined foods, processed foods or fast food. Before anyone screams, I'll consent to one point and ask you to consider 2 other points.

First, I agree that this would most likely be a regressive tax. I'm not sure of any way of avoiding that.

point 1) We already engage in social engineering. The links between food and health (and thus health cost) are clear. There is no reason why encouraging consumption of less refined (and hence more healthy?) foods isn't an acceptable target for social engineering.

point 2) I'd agree that removing the subsidies is a superior solution. However, the subsidizing of America's food is so complex, so intertwined w/ other parts of society that it may not be possible to eliminate subsidizing. As an example of complexity, consider federal money for roads. Ask yourself what percentage of rural (really rural) roads carry enough traffic to justify federal money. Now ask yourself the same question while considering the additional hardship involved in harvesting w/o those roads.

Note, I am not saying that we shouldn't try to reduce subsidizing. I am saying that it may not be possible to completely eliminate it.

well, enough for now.

I don't know if it's the economy so much as Americans in general have been on the path to raising the number of obese people for years now.

Let's tax fat people. Obama raised the taxes on cigarettes, come on Barrack, tax them too if you're going to tax me. Let's see that federal Big Mac tax, hypocrite. Everyone can be unhealthy but me.

Fast food = cheep food = save money = gain weight = loose health = medical growing needs. Wow. I guess poor and sick may help the economy. How sad.

Processed foods are often cheaper.

If we can blame tobacco companies for a generation of smokers then we can blame the fast-food conglomerates for a generation of fatties.

Yes but Americans getting FATTER is primarily because Fat has never been correctly defined. There's baby fat left over from childhood, there's fat that goes inside us, there's fat that goes all through us underneath our skin even on our nose and ears and lips.

All of that is TRUE FAT but the fat on people's waistlines is something else. Inside waistline fat cortisol is produced, excess Creative-Reactive Protein is produced, and these chemicals produced in waistline beer belly gut fat is killing us, not the fat itself.

WHICH all means waistline fat is a gland. I used to call it a benign cancer but nope, it sits there overproducing chemicals that are killing us. And yet it also serves another hideous purpose. The human Immune System and some colon microbes also both shunt poisons out of the bloodstream and colon into waistline fat so the fat is a POISON REPOSITORY.

THAT IS WHY when people try to diet it off they can get deathly ill from those concentrated stored poisons re-entering their bloodstream. Concentrations of C-RP rises quickly and stops the dieter's heart instantly to a stop => sudden death.

DOCTORS and MEDICARE and HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS refuse to face these facts because if it becomes known waistline fat is A POISON CONCENTRATED GLAND producing deadly chemicals they would have to surgery it off. That would be money out of their pockets. By refusing to do FULLY PAID fat reduction surgery (by insisting it's cosmetic therefore elective) they doom millions to remain obese AND out here experimenting with weightloss drugs that can damage their heart valves (heart valve proplapse).

Insurance providers are causing cascading disease syndromes and increased rates of kidney dialysis by leaving patients solving their own medical problems.