America is an expansionist power
POSTED BY: dreamtrove
UPDATED: Saturday, January 3, 2009 22:14
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I was never overweight until I got an IT job as a database engineer. Deskjobs man.
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"What's up with being comfortable in an uncomfortable body??"
The couch.
It's easy to be comfortable there, no matter what ...
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ETA: I can't account for the young heavy people, but to some extent I can account for the older heavy people.
When you are young and invincible you accumulate all sorts of dings, and can carry them, along with illnesses and ailments, due to high levels of human growth hormone. As you age and HGH drops, the illnesses and ailments you used to carry without much problem cause increasing symptoms. Too, many of the dings you got when you were younger come back to haunt you. Moving hurts. Moving more hurts more. The tendency is to move less. At the same time, metabolic rate drops. Eating, however, continues like before. Combining these leads to weight gain.
I was watching 'Extreme Bodies' and I think the title was 'The Super-Obese' - it highlighted people who were originally lean and fit and later became extremely heavy. Most of those people became less active due to injury, and also continued to eat as they had done in the past.
It reinforced my observations about the trends that cause weight gain with age.
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