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    I can't blame the obesity epidemic on Reagan. It really seemed to start in the 90s when everyone was freaked out about fat so everything on store shelves became low fat. But low fat food was juked full of sugar instead, and with how addictive sugar is it sold better and companies just left the added sugar in once the low fat trend died off. Sugar is the enemy and we have so much of it hidden in our food. Back in the Reagan days I didn't see fat s like you see everywhere from especially the early 2000s and on after the low fat craze had gotten us all consuming a lot more sugar for a few years.
    Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with the no fat frozen yogurt

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    Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with the no fat frozen yogurt


    Thanks for ruining my daddy's business you fat .

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    As others have said, Tex Mex is tasty but some dishes aren't photogenic. But your point is correct. Many Americans have made poor health choices over the past 40 years. Also coincides with the Reagan tax cuts when obesity started to rise. Likely due to more people having to work longer and harder to make ends meet, meaning no time for exercise and cooking at home.
    Because harder work leads to obesity. Sitting on your ass in front of one of your 4 televisions or playing video games all day and snacking - gorging doesn't do that.

    If people were thinner before, it's because of the type of food they ate and the amounts, like common sense would dictate. Eating out or ordering in weren't things in the early 80's. I don't know anyone who's parents let them sit in front of a game console all day and night eating and gaming. You can play partisan excuse wheel all you like, you're likely going to land on red each time.

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    What explains this growth in obesity? Why is obesity higher in the United States
    than in any other developed country? The available evidence suggests that calories
    expended have not changed significantly since 1980, while calories consumed have
    risen markedly. But these facts just push the puzzle back a step: why has there been
    an increase in calories consumed? We propose a theory based on the division of
    labor in food preparation. In the 1960s, the bulk of food preparation was done by
    families that cooked their own food and ate it at home. Since then, there has been
    a revolution in the mass preparation of food that is roughly comparable to the mass
    production revolution in manufactured goods that happened a century ago. Technological innovations—including vacuum packing, improved preservatives, deep
    freezing, artificial flavors and microwaves—have enabled food manufacturers to
    cook food centrally and ship it to consumers for rapid consumption. In 1965, a
    married women who didn’t work spent over two hours per day cooking and
    cleaning up from meals. In 1995, the same tasks take less than half the time. The
    switch from individual to mass preparation lowered the time price of food consumption and led to increased quan y and variety of foods consumed


    https://www.brown.edu/Research/Shapiro/pdfs/obesity.pdf

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    I dropped 40 lbs over the last few years by calorie deficit. I went from 185 to 145.

    I was over 200 lbs at one point.

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    I dropped 40 lbs over the last few years by calorie deficit. I went from 185 to 145.

    I was over 200 lbs at one point.
    145? Good god you're either short or you're a stick. Maybe both

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    145? Good god you're either short or you're a stick. Maybe both
    Both

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    Looks like Bexar County's hospitalizations have ticked up slightly after falling slightly the last few days.

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    Looks like Bexar County's hospitalizations have ticked up slightly after falling slightly the last few days.
    Because it was ticking down it's possible they let some people in that they would have initially just sent home. My 90 yo great aunt got a positive test and her doctor decided for her to ride it out at her place

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    145? Good god you're either short or you're a stick. Maybe both
    i feel personally attacked (i'm 5'11 145)

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    I dropped 40 lbs over the last few years by calorie deficit. I went from 185 to 145.

    I was over 200 lbs at one point.
    Props, tbh.

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    i feel personally attacked (i'm 5'11 145)
    Toothpick

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    I didn't want to be both old and fat. Terrible combo

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    It's wild to me that Bexar county has more positive cases than Japan. But, Japan has about 5x more deaths.

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    i feel personally attacked (i'm 5'11 145)
    do some pushups and eat some chicken for sake

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    do some pushups and eat some chicken for sake
    He'll just burn it off, tbh.

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    i feel personally attacked (i'm 5'11 145)
    You guys are sticks. Better that than fat for sure but damn mixing in a milkshake in your diet at least once a year won't kill you

    https://www.bannerhealth.com/staying...n/ideal-weight

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    I didn't want to be both old and fat. Terrible combo
    Black lung, beat up liver ok tho

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    It's wild to me that Bexar county has more positive cases than Japan. But, Japan has about 5x more deaths.
    Japan has been wearing masks. It's pretty much the only thing they have done to combat SARS-Cov2. Early on Shinzo Abe was pulling the same kind of denial crap that Trump was though because he didn't want to lose the Olympics. I watch Japanese news every day (trying to improve my listening and reading skills) and it was disgusting hearing Abe and other government and IOC officials talk like the Olympics were still 100% a go during March and at least a good part of April (can't remember when they were officially postponed to 2021). Japan's success is the one thing that makes me question Michael Osterholm's theory that transmission is coming mostly from aerosols and not droplets, because if that was the case it should probably have been spreading like wildfire just from people breathing while packed into the trains in Japanese cities. But people wear masks and don't talk whatsoever on trains (it's insanely rude in Japan to talk on a train, almost as bad as wearing shoes inside) so probably not a whole lot of droplet transmission.

    As for the deaths, they almost all came pretty early on back when doctors were overusing ventilators and there was no drug treatment. And we haven't really seen San Antonio's deaths max out yet I doubt.

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    Japan has been wearing masks. It's pretty much the only thing they have done to combat SARS-Cov2. Early on Shinzo Abe was pulling the same kind of denial crap that Trump was though because he didn't want to lose the Olympics. I watch Japanese news every day (trying to improve my listening and reading skills) and it was disgusting hearing Abe and other government and IOC officials talk like the Olympics were still 100% a go during March and at least a good part of April (can't remember when they were officially postponed to 2021). Japan's success is the one thing that makes me question Michael Osterholm's theory that transmission is coming mostly from aerosols and not droplets, because if that was the case it should probably have been spreading like wildfire just from people breathing while packed into the trains in Japanese cities. But people wear masks and don't talk whatsoever on trains (it's insanely rude in Japan to talk on a train, almost as bad as wearing shoes inside) so probably not a whole lot of droplet transmission.

    As for the deaths, they almost all came pretty early on back when doctors were overusing ventilators and there was no drug treatment. And we haven't really seen San Antonio's deaths max out yet I doubt.

    Could be other factors, too. Past exposure to similar viruses, diet, etc.

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    Black lung, beat up liver ok tho
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    "scientists today have a better sense of how to measure COVID-19's lethality, and the numbers are alarming. Using a more sophisticated calculation called the infection-fatality rate, paired with the past few months’ worth of data, the latest best estimates show that COVID-19 is around 50 to 100 times more lethal than the seasonal flu, on average..."

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/s...lity-rate-cvd/

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    ".........Using a statistical model, epidemiologists at Columbia University estimated the infection-fatality rate for New York City based on its massive outbreak from March 1 to May 16. Their results, published online as a non-peer reviewed preprint on June 29, show that the coronavirus may be even deadlier than first thought. According to their data, the COVID-19 infection-fatality rate is 1.46 percent, or twice as high as earlier estimates(and much higher than a misinformed rate being widely shared on social media). This risk varies by age, with those older than 75 having the highest infection-fatality rate, at 13.83 percent......"

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