Gluttony is a sin, so why is a so called christian nation (US) having obesity problems?

Good question. I suspect people like to choose their sins and make excuses for them while looking down on other peoples sins. It's the "log in your own eye" thing.

Uhh your hero said we are not a Christian nation.

Their cups runeth over.

I have no idea what you mean by that or what you're trying to imply. However by your capitalization of the C, I would say you're an overweight or obese christian who has trouble accepting reality and truth.

The food in the U.S. is filled with GMO's and preservatives for starters. Very little of what you can buy either at a restaurant or at the grocery store is even authentic food anymore. I'd be willing to bet this is where the obesity is coming from.

Peace.

Probably because our food is overly processed and has no nutrients, so the body thinks it's being starved and stores it. Mega-corporations maximizing profits at our expense.

I mean come on guys and gals, I really want to know what you overweight and obese christians think of the whole gluttony thing. Everyone knows the 7 deadly sins. So how do you justify your gluttony? Just ignore it? How can anyone who is obese or very overweight possibly call themselves a christian, much less a good one.

haven't you ever heard about church folks? They go tot church and listen to preaching all day, then they come home and eat all night! That's why they're fat!

I didn't know a nation that has a hundredfold more choices of food and virtually everything else was forced to buy bad food. So these corporations, they come to your house, point a gun to your head and make you eat their food? These companies are what they are because of what people's demand made them to be.

Why blame food? Food doesn't ram itself into their mouths without them knowing, it's always a conscious choice to eat and a conscious choice to buy that food and eat more than their bodies require to sustain themselves.

The reason for all this bad, processed food is the gluttonous desire for food to begin with! And the reason good healthy food is expensive is because there is less demand for it.

because they are only christian when it suits thems. Go watch the crowd at restaurants after church lets out on Sunday and see what heathens they become. Phonies...

What kind of loving christian are you to try and attack me for no other reason than your fear of the truth and a valid question which has not been answered by a single christian. I'd like an answer from a real christian if possible, not these fearful fakes who just use the label of christianity to make themselves feel better.

And hey, at least I don't have my head up there :)

some medication has the side effect of weight gain.

Who said I was Christian you ass backwards YOB?

It may be a contributing factor but a minor one. The major one being the input of food into the body which is then converted to energy for use and the waste converted to fat. And if medication does induce weight gain, the solution would be to offset the side effect by consuming less food. I've seen too many people in my life eat to excess and gluttony, then cry about being fat.

Obviously you're not a real christian but you care enough about the subject to respond emotionally and capitalize the C, so chances are you think you're a christian. You also seem to have an unnatural obsession with asses...

Is being a self-righteous asshole a sin?

Nothing self-righteous about anything I've written. I'm merely here to get answers about something I am interested in. Is playing a christian when you're not a sin? Aren't there any real christians on here? You know, the ones who actually know what love is and have it inside of themselves, for themselves and other people.

Yep!

As for the original posts question.

1) High fructose corn syrup. Contain a lot more calories than the "taste" indicates. (and, it's shoved into just about everything, even pizza sauce.)

2) "Diet" soft drinks. Trick the mind (and the person) into thinking that they can drink all they want with no consequence. In part this is due to the blood sugar levels not changing to reflect what the body thinks it should expect from the intake. In effect, this trains the "subject" to consume more and more.

I'm sorry, I don't understand what certain products have to do with being gluttonous. Do these soft drink companies and food companies force you to buy these products? Do they threaten you or your families unless you buy their products? I am a bit confused here...

Why do people blame food and companies who sell them? It's these overweight people who are buying these from them and keeping them in business, giving them all these profits and forcing them to supply what they demand by voting with their wallets.

I get it, there is bad food and drinks, but water has no HFCS in it last time I checked. Nothing really explains why a majority christian nation accepts and ignores the sin of gluttony.

Rules for Radicals

* RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

I'm not religious, troll. What is your religion? I'm sure it can easily criticized also.

Christians are about as self righteous as it gets. Calling them out on their bullshit only makes them feel victimized and persecuted resulting in more self righteousness.

Guess there are no real christians here, what a shame...

Your lack of education betrays you!! There are people who overeat.
However calling the entire population of the US as gluttonous? Really?

Are you and your ignorance aware that cattle are fed growth hormones here?
Are you also aware that those same growth hormones, that are helping cows produce 10 times more milk per day than normal, can also adversely affect people?

Obesity and gluttony are not the same. Check your dictionary.
If you have one that is.

I don't understand why you assume I have one, it would be wise to learn not to assume anything. I'm just trying to gets some answers, in order to help me understand the people who claim to believe in god, and yet blatantly do not follow the very beliefs they claim to have.

it isnt because of gluttony, its because the foods that americans are eating are full of sugar. Sugar is what makes ppl obese.

Are you aware that people's gluttonous desires are what make these farmers and companies go to such lengths to provide such amounts of food and drink to satisfy demand? Basic economics. The supply would not be there if the demand was not.

Other animals produce milk, no one forces you to buy cow's milk, and as always there is a choice. Where did I call the entire population of the US as gluttonous? I don't recall or see anything like that written by me.

Obesity is being very overweight, people become overweight because they eat more than their bodies use and the "waste", or wasted food, gets converted and stored as fat. That is the very definition of gluttony. If the body used everything people put in it, there would be no fat, so fat is merely a sign of wasted food.

Because the weight problems for the most part in the US are not from gluttony.
They are from the soy and gmo corn and high fructose corn syrup and other poisons put in our food that messes with the metabolism.

Add that to a lifestyle which almost requires one to be sedentary and you have an overweight population.

No the foods that have been pushed on the population by the corporations that Americans have been brought up to trust CHANGE THE METABOLISM

Americans are learning that those very corporations have lied to them.

Correction: Is being an arrogant self-righteous asshole a sin?

I guess if they had a religion that allowed them to lie, cheat and steal from people not of their religion it would be easy, right?