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Unfortunately they're not conducive to lowering health care costs.........Quote:
Originally Posted by vy65
Most health issues arise from following the herd so to speak. Most often people will simply eat what others around them do. The likelihood increases with time.
Is that just a guess from observation or ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Agloco
There have been a couple of studies showing that overweight and obesity are "contagious", in the sense that if your friends or co-workers are fat or obese, your probability of being fat/obese is higher, even when the friend is at a distance. The average black or Latino in SA, of all ages, is an irrefutable observation that fat/obesity is "contagious".Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
Imagine that effect when one or both parents exemplify overweight/obesity AND feed their diet to their kids.
Cows and people will eat pretty much whatever they're fed, and that is whatever makes the most profits for the food producer. The taxpayer-subsidized Standard American Diet, S.A.D, eaten by herds of Human-Bovines, is clearly pathogenic.
Yeah, I found this:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa066082
Interesting
Over a decade of personal observation. Also, herd behavior is quite a well chronicled phenomenon.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
The Most Powerful Response To The 'Let Him Die' Party
http://front.moveon.org/the%2Dmost%2...330971-ElRGuHx
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most tea baggers see themselves as Christ-centered "Christians" full of love and compassion for their fellow man (well, as long as he is lucky, white, American, rich, "Christian")
Steve likely smoked and is responsible for his own death.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
There are problems with her story. You simply cannot replace an older person with a younger one. There has to be just cause because the laws protect against it. Maybe he was too unhealthy to competently do his job already.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
I wonder what we would find if you could dig up the whole truth behind her story.