When did people get so big?? Observations from the grocery store. | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 65408061 United States 09/08/2019 12:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes, I don't think carbs are good for you, I can sure tell a difference in how I feel when I eat them. I rarely eat carbs but was craving a piece of pizza yesterday, figured I buy the premade crust and add good things - organic tomatoes, broccoli, beef, and good cheese, it was awful. I felt awful after eating a slice, throwing the rest away today. I hate to waste food, but no, I'm not eating that. Not even feeding the crust to the dog or chickens, that ain't good for no-body. Wrong. everything in moderation and balanced. |
DuckNCover User ID: 77927596 United States 09/08/2019 12:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For whatever reason I really noticed it yesterday morning at the grocery store. The people were huge, not just overweight, but tall. I am an over 50 woman and stand at about five feet tall with a medium build. Quoting: Turtle Flower When I was in high school 80-83 it seemed the tallest girls were about 5’7” or 8” and I remember my friend on the boys basketball team was the tallest at 6’4”. There were only a few overweight kids, and they weren’t obese, but chubby. I went to school in what would be considered rural SC and our school was about 60% white to 40% black (as an aside, there were no racial issues at all as I remember it and everyone got along). I first noticed super big people about 10 years ago on a visit home while in a bar. The bar was full of what looked to be college kids and as I was trying to leave a girl stood up in front of me and all I saw was her butt. She must have been 7’ feet tall, and she was big. I was shocked, so much so, I still remember it. I felt bad for her, actually, and imagined it had to be uncomfortable as she kind of lumbered out in front of me. So yesterday morning we’re in the city doing our shopping at Kroger, we’re mostly there for produce and dairy and a few odds and ends, and the store is busy. It was one of those days where it seems everyone is blocking the aisles or standing in front of what I need, and the energy felt rushed, like there wasn’t enough for everyone. Approaching the diary section I was cut off by a tall, obese woman with a huge buggy (shopping cart) and stopped and stared, every person in the diary section was huge, like over 6 feet tall and fat. The women were big, the men were bigger, and the children were well on their way to being bigger than their parents. What in the hell? Being small has its advantages and I slithered in and retrieved the butter (not margarine) I was seeking, and we got out of there as fast as possible. Hubby and I talked about it on the way home, reminiscing of what we remembered from our youth and how people have changed. He went to school in New England and said there was only one fat kid in his high school. Now everywhere you look you see giant people, not just overweight, but tall. I don’t recall ever being aware of my small stature until the last decade, and at 5’1” there were shorter people than me in my dealings, but now I rarely see them and when I do they are older. It’s easy to see that we are evolving to be bigger, looking at uniforms and dresses from the civil war era shows they we have gotten larger, and even looking at sewing patterns from the 1960s show that women have gotten bigger. I wonder how much of that is a natural event, and how much is from the bad food, water, and prescriptions. The people I saw yesterday are not healthy, and it was funny, or scary, that I saw one average sized person and she stood out. The young woman of a normal size stood out because she was the only one in the store who looked healthy. I can explain this: calories, our diet has a lot more of them now, easier and cheaper. That explains why kids today are bigger and adults and fat.. cut the calories or get more active or even both. Calories isn't the problem exactly the problem. After all its just a unit of energy. The issue regarding size is growth hormones and steroids in milk/dairy/beef/chicken. Obesity is caused by 2 things, fat and processed sugar. You cut both those out of your diet, you could eat 10,000 calories a day and not gain weight.. I agree, but we all need a degree of good fat (HDL) in our diets. Otherwise, our bodies would not function properly. From ingesting processed sugar, our body develops insulin resistance. Therefore, the body can't burn the fat that we used too... Metabolism changes as we get older. I remember when I could eat a whole pizza and not gain weight. Now if I eat a slice, I'd gain a pound... |
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Turtle Flower (OP) User ID: 77987607 United States 09/08/2019 12:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have one friend on facebook that I can predict her migraines by her feed of where she's eating - I'm right every time. Quoting: Turtle Flower Interesting have you told her? You should literally take notes/screenshots or something to prove it to her. No, I've seen her get really upset at people for offering suggestions about her chronic migraines. People don't like to hear that their diet is affecting their health. I do the same things with flu shots, pay attention to who posts about getting their shots and then watch how many times they get sick with sinus infections and colds. The average sick periods after flu shots is about three times from what I've seen. People also get real angry when you suggest that maybe it was the shot that made them so sick all winter. "In order to arrive at what you are not, You must go through the way in which you are not." -TS Eliot [link to www.turtlesvoice.com] Momma Said Write A Book About It - New novel [link to www.amazon.com (secure)] [link to www.facebook.com (secure)] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73841345 United States 09/08/2019 12:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan Yes, that is bad. We try to buy organic grass fed meats, and accept donations from our friends who hunt. We don't buy our meat from Kroger. I bought grass fed beef from uswellnessmeats, and I had dropped one in the garage, found it four days later and the stuff was still bright red and had no stink to it. I threw it all out. I don't know what they are putting in the meats but it will not rot anymore and neither will dairy products. Chicken is a joke as it is dipped in bleach, put a chicken to boil and the steam smells just like bleach. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77794334 United States 09/08/2019 12:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have noticed this for quite some time! Another thing I have noticed is a lot of men young and old look like they're 8 months pregnant other wise they don't look much overweight/fat. It's weird seeing this I bet they haven't seen their feet in years! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69153735 I agree with those that said there is all kinds of crud in our foods may very well be a contributing factor along with little or no exercise! yes hubby has the belly but hes muscular everywhere else. i dont understand it. i dont have it and if i see it coming on, i stop eating, do a few situps, even skip my OMAD. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76202283 United States 09/08/2019 12:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What state are you in? Where Im at, all the people are shrinking. I see the kids that get off the bus from High School , they are as short as elementary school kids Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77568399 I have a woman friend whose 5'5, She says she went to Walmart, every corner she went around, she was eye to eye with all grown men, yes many were Mexican but many were white men too, she asked why all these men are short Regional diets vary, and it sounds like the region you're in is malnourished. Dairy products have tons of chemical additives in them, so combined with meats, there's a chemical additive overload on most Americans. When I was living in Mexico I had very little meat and dairy. It was mostly corn, vegetables, and fruits. When I was living in India there was almost no dairy, mostly wheat, rice, and vegetables. In Thailand there was tons of chicken, rice, and vegetables, no dairy. When I was going to college in Italy there was small amounts of dairy, nothing like you see in the U.S. |
MrBlack User ID: 73636933 United States 09/08/2019 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan Yes, that is bad. We try to buy organic grass fed meats, and accept donations from our friends who hunt. We don't buy our meat from Kroger. I bought grass fed beef from uswellnessmeats, and I had dropped one in the garage, found it four days later and the stuff was still bright red and had no stink to it. I threw it all out. I don't know what they are putting in the meats but it will not rot anymore and neither will dairy products. Chicken is a joke as it is dipped in bleach, put a chicken to boil and the steam smells just like bleach. Bread and buns seem to take forever to mold anymore as well. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 16762662 United States 09/08/2019 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan Yes, that is bad. We try to buy organic grass fed meats, and accept donations from our friends who hunt. We don't buy our meat from Kroger. I bought grass fed beef from uswellnessmeats, and I had dropped one in the garage, found it four days later and the stuff was still bright red and had no stink to it. I threw it all out. I don't know what they are putting in the meats but it will not rot anymore and neither will dairy products. Chicken is a joke as it is dipped in bleach, put a chicken to boil and the steam smells just like bleach. Most city water nationwide has bleach in it. In Nashville, TN in midtown, you can SMELL the bleach in the water; it is so gross, and, it fades out dark clothes prematurely. To be a serious cook here you can not use tap water, everything has to to be made and washed with filtered water. |
RepublicofTexas User ID: 73680073 United States 09/08/2019 12:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What state are you in? Where Im at, all the people are shrinking. I see the kids that get off the bus from High School , they are as short as elementary school kids Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77568399 I have a woman friend whose 5'5, She says she went to Walmart, every corner she went around, she was eye to eye with all grown men, yes many were Mexican but many were white men too, she asked why all these men are short They were not Mexicans, but instead were Guatemalans. Make America Strong Again Make America Sexy Again I'm fukken this monkey, you just shut up and hold the tail." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77794334 United States 09/08/2019 12:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan Yes, that is bad. We try to buy organic grass fed meats, and accept donations from our friends who hunt. We don't buy our meat from Kroger. I bought grass fed beef from uswellnessmeats, and I had dropped one in the garage, found it four days later and the stuff was still bright red and had no stink to it. I threw it all out. I don't know what they are putting in the meats but it will not rot anymore and neither will dairy products. Chicken is a joke as it is dipped in bleach, put a chicken to boil and the steam smells just like bleach. well look at the chicken when you open the package.look for the holes. the use long ass needles to INJECT solutions right into the meat which makes it weigh much more. they SAY its a salt or something solution, wont hurt you but i dont believe it. i still eat only a little chicken, if i have nothing else.i have no choice sometimes. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75746711 United States 09/08/2019 12:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan yep Nope... once and for all, trace metabolites do not cause the same effect as the raw compound. It's a misnomer. So once a hormone is metabolized/converted by the body it no longer effects another animal that eats it. Right? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77794334 United States 09/08/2019 12:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan Yes, that is bad. We try to buy organic grass fed meats, and accept donations from our friends who hunt. We don't buy our meat from Kroger. I bought grass fed beef from uswellnessmeats, and I had dropped one in the garage, found it four days later and the stuff was still bright red and had no stink to it. I threw it all out. I don't know what they are putting in the meats but it will not rot anymore and neither will dairy products. Chicken is a joke as it is dipped in bleach, put a chicken to boil and the steam smells just like bleach. Most city water nationwide has bleach in it. In Nashville, TN in midtown, you can SMELL the bleach in the water; it is so gross, and, it fades out dark clothes prematurely. To be a serious cook here you can not use tap water, everything has to to be made and washed with filtered water. every few months, our well that several neighborhoods share here in Central Florida, is treated with bleach and gawd knows what all else. it takes a few days for the bleachy smell taste and feel to ease off. those few days are the hardest for me because they strip my bladder, its very harsh but i have that or coffee to drink.i just plow through until it clears up again. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 65408061 United States 09/08/2019 12:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan yep Nope... once and for all, trace metabolites do not cause the same effect as the raw compound. It's a misnomer. So once a hormone is metabolized/converted by the body it no longer effects another animal that eats it. Right? No it does not |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77794334 United States 09/08/2019 12:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When is the last time you were in Vegas? It's a whole city of obese walmart shoppers. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73636933 As far as the height thing I think it's natural evolution. The taller people stand out, get noticed, reproduce and have bigger kids. The food and water wasnt poisoned a hundred years ago like it is now and people were already getting taller. I've got friends who live in the historic section of St. Augustine (the oldest city in the country) and their house is referred to as 'the hobbit house'. She's 4'8", and he's 5'2". The house is perfect for them at over 200 years old you can tell how much shorter everyone was back then. I'm 6'3" and I have to duck through every door frame and in the bathroom I have to piss with my neck sideways and head against the ceiling! The obese factor is definitely nefarious in nature. Maybe we are being plumped up for a harvest. If the "elite" plan was less than that they would have went a route that wouldn't have a population of cows consuming every natural resource to sustain their overweight bodies. yes i had the SAME thought! a HARVEST! what do farmers like? more meat on their animals... which freaks me out because that kind of shit has been in stories for a long time. whatever is happening is not good... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77794334 United States 09/08/2019 12:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Probably when they started packing all of our meat products full of growth hormones to maximize profits... that’d be my guess. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan Yes, that is bad. We try to buy organic grass fed meats, and accept donations from our friends who hunt. We don't buy our meat from Kroger. I bought grass fed beef from uswellnessmeats, and I had dropped one in the garage, found it four days later and the stuff was still bright red and had no stink to it. I threw it all out. I don't know what they are putting in the meats but it will not rot anymore and neither will dairy products. Chicken is a joke as it is dipped in bleach, put a chicken to boil and the steam smells just like bleach. Bread and buns seem to take forever to mold anymore as well. not for me, Florida with no AC in the kitchen, your bread has a two day shelf life before the mold attacks it. mold is our state flower i swear, or it should be. i want to keep it in the fridge but he hates that so... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 74457708 United States 09/08/2019 12:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Depends on what store you go to. From my observations: Walmart = fat/messy people Shaw’s = fat/lower class Stop and shop = middle class mix of it all Dave’s market = mostly in shape upper class Whole Foods = thin, good looking people upper class mostly |
))) CHL2T ((( User ID: 77263290 United States 09/08/2019 12:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As I recall, you are a writer correct? That being said, what you've describes sounds like a perfect storyline! Call it "The Big Ones" or something similar and make it about how the lefty shadow government is producing these freaks to someday attack and wipe out the right.... Now that's a GLP lovers read right there! Be sure and send me the the first copy! |
RepublicofTexas User ID: 73680073 United States 09/08/2019 12:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nope... once and for all, trace metabolites do not cause the same effect as the raw compound. It's a misnomer. So once a hormone is metabolized/converted by the body it no longer effects another animal that eats it. Right? No it does not Growth hormone does pass through into milk. This is the supposed reason for so many precocious children now, Make America Strong Again Make America Sexy Again I'm fukken this monkey, you just shut up and hold the tail." |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 71318064 United States 09/08/2019 12:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For whatever reason I really noticed it yesterday morning at the grocery store. The people were huge, not just overweight, but tall. I am an over 50 woman and stand at about five feet tall with a medium build. Quoting: Turtle Flower When I was in high school 80-83 it seemed the tallest girls were about 5’7” or 8” and I remember my friend on the boys basketball team was the tallest at 6’4”. There were only a few overweight kids, and they weren’t obese, but chubby. I went to school in what would be considered rural SC and our school was about 60% white to 40% black (as an aside, there were no racial issues at all as I remember it and everyone got along). I first noticed super big people about 10 years ago on a visit home while in a bar. The bar was full of what looked to be college kids and as I was trying to leave a girl stood up in front of me and all I saw was her butt. She must have been 7’ feet tall, and she was big. I was shocked, so much so, I still remember it. I felt bad for her, actually, and imagined it had to be uncomfortable as she kind of lumbered out in front of me. So yesterday morning we’re in the city doing our shopping at Kroger, we’re mostly there for produce and dairy and a few odds and ends, and the store is busy. It was one of those days where it seems everyone is blocking the aisles or standing in front of what I need, and the energy felt rushed, like there wasn’t enough for everyone. Approaching the diary section I was cut off by a tall, obese woman with a huge buggy (shopping cart) and stopped and stared, every person in the diary section was huge, like over 6 feet tall and fat. The women were big, the men were bigger, and the children were well on their way to being bigger than their parents. What in the hell? Being small has its advantages and I slithered in and retrieved the butter (not margarine) I was seeking, and we got out of there as fast as possible. Hubby and I talked about it on the way home, reminiscing of what we remembered from our youth and how people have changed. He went to school in New England and said there was only one fat kid in his high school. Now everywhere you look you see giant people, not just overweight, but tall. I don’t recall ever being aware of my small stature until the last decade, and at 5’1” there were shorter people than me in my dealings, but now I rarely see them and when I do they are older. It’s easy to see that we are evolving to be bigger, looking at uniforms and dresses from the civil war era shows they we have gotten larger, and even looking at sewing patterns from the 1960s show that women have gotten bigger. I wonder how much of that is a natural event, and how much is from the bad food, water, and prescriptions. The people I saw yesterday are not healthy, and it was funny, or scary, that I saw one average sized person and she stood out. The young woman of a normal size stood out because she was the only one in the store who looked healthy. ...at 5 ft tall, everyone looks big to you, you're literally less than an inch from being officially labeled as a midget/dwarf... you're like a Tom Cruise movie where they surround him with shorter people to make him appear bigger than he is...then you see him in real life and he's the size of a 3rd grader... |
Happy in Nature User ID: 77553547 Nicaragua 09/08/2019 12:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am in the same age group, high school in Florida and only a couple of fat (not obese) kids in a school of 1500. It is the growth hormones in dairy and meat, coupled with the appetite stimulants in processed food. High calorie beverages (Big Gulps, frou frou coffee drinks) make it worse. My diet is primarily organic vegan, though I do eat organic meat, dairy and eggs on occasion. I drink maybe 2 sodas a year. When I visit the US, I am usually the one with the healthiest weight wherever I go. I really feel this on my flights, as I am usually the smallest of my seatmates whose girth spreads into my precious seat space. I try to have compassion, as I can see the population is controlled by eugenicists. It is difficult to break away from their control. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75394950 United States 09/08/2019 12:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 50 years ago Quicksilver nailed it: [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77984428 United States 09/08/2019 12:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The population is being poisoned. The food is no longer optimally nutritional. Keto diet is optimal. Glyphosate herbicide residue contamination, Genetically Modified Products, High Fructose Corn Syrup, and Hydrogenated transfat oils ect... aid in low body metabolism and fat conversation. Remarkably some people are genetically immune to the toxins in the food supply. Dr. Robert Lustig is an endocrinologist and professor of pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California-San Francisco. In this video, he sits down with CrossFit’s Rory McKernan to explain sugar’s toxicity, outline the stakes of sugar consumption and offer suggestions for addressing the ongoing sugar crisis. “Sugar is toxic,” Lustig explains. “It proffers a set of biochemical alterations that are detrimental to human health—unrelated to its calories.” In this way, Lustig says, sugar “is very much like alcohol,” and chronic metabolic diseases associated with alcohol are becoming prevalent in children with high-sugar diets. When asked about the state of pediatric medicine in the United States, Lustig says, “We have a problem.” Because the food industry has negatively influenced nutrition science for the last 45 years, many people still abide by the mistaken belief that a healthy diet is attained by regulating calories and saturated fat. This misconception has led to a rise in chronic metabolic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes in adult and youth populations. Source - [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] |