<![CDATA[Why is Mommy and Daddy so fat?]]>1. Sleep debt. Getting too little sleep can increase body weight. Today’s Americans get less shut-eye than ever.
  2. Pollution. Hormones control body weight. And many of today’s pollutants affect our hormones.
  3. Air conditioning. You have to burn calories if your environment is too hot or too cold for comfort. But more people than ever live and work in temperature-controlled homes and offices.
  4. Decreased smoking. Smoking reduces weight. Americans smoke much less than they used to.
  5. Medicine. Many different drugs – including contraceptives, steroid hormones, diabetesdiabetes drugs, some antidepressants, and blood pressure drugs – can cause weight gain. Use of these drugs is on the upswing.
  6. Population age, ethnicity. Middle-aged people and Hispanic-Americans tend to be more obese than young European-Americans. Americans are getting older and more Hispanic.
  7. Older moms. There’s some evidence that the older a woman is when she gives birth, the higher her child’s risk of obesity. American women are giving birth at older and older ages.
  8. Ancestors’ environment. Some influences may go back two generations. Environmental changes that made a grandparent obese may “through a fetally driven positive feedback loop” visit obesity on the grandchildren.
  9. Obesity linked to fertility. There’s some evidence obese people are more fertile than lean ones. If obesity has a genetic component, the percentage of obese people in the population should increase.
  10. Unions of obese spouses. Obese women tend to marry obese men. If there are fewer thin people around – and if obesity has a genetic component – there will be still more obese people in the next generation.

American Medical Association

SOURCE: Keith, S.W. International Journal of Obesity, advance online publication, June 27, 2006.

You will notice that nothing was said about eating too much or too little or not having enough physical activities in one’s life.

]]>https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/3751/why-is-mommy-and-daddy-so-fatRSS for NodeMon, 01 Jun 2026 08:40:19 GMTSun, 16 Jul 2006 14:56:52 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Mommy and Daddy so fat? on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:10:43 GMT]]>It’s simple. The study was done by the same crew who studied secondhand smoke. All the brains in the world, yet the common sense of a one-eyed goose! Remind you of anyone around here??

]]>https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82881https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82881Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:10:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Mommy and Daddy so fat? on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:23:01 GMT]]>I replaced my fast food addiction, and dorito addiction and oreo addiction (still feeding my ice cream addiction and caffiene addiction) with:

64 ounces of water per day
1 yogurt cup (Light’n’fit Dannon)
2 Monster “Lo-Carb”
24 ounces of homemade starbucks “french roast” coffee, unsweetened, black
1 8-12 ounce steak
1/2 sweet potato
1 ear sweet corn (in season)
1 pound cherries

That’s my daily intake of food.  Roughly 1600-1800 calories.  My rested metabolic rate is 2248 calories, according to the machine at Bally’s Total Fitness.  Add to that 550 calories burned on the elliptical (how accurate that is I don’t know) over 35 minutes per day, and I am dropping about 1-3 pounds a week.  Figure in 4-6 months I should be down to my pre-birthing weight.

With that said, the real point of the article was this:

Why is dietting and aerobic physical activities NOT listed in the top ten methods of loosing weight/weight gain???  If you didn’t know better, by reading that article, you’d think it’s perfectly acceptable to have 2 egg mcmuffins for breakfast, 2 big macs for lunch and a large pepperoni pizza for dinner every day!  Doubly good if you practice your Nintendo 360 skills at the same time!

]]>https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82866https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82866Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:23:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Mommy and Daddy so fat? on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:27:06 GMT]]>In all honesty?

ham and 2%swiss sandwhiches on light wheat
hundred calorie pack of penaut butter cookies (to satisfy my Nutter Butter addiction with less fat, trans fat, and calories)
Kashi bar (more peanut butter)
Flavored and regular water…

And a thermos of hot black coffee (100% Columbian of course… Sumatran on the weekends…)

And about 25 cigs a day :-)

]]>https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82863https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82863Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:27:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Mommy and Daddy so fat? on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:13:44 GMT]]>Hardee’s.  So whats the substitute?

]]>https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82859https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82859Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:13:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Mommy and Daddy so fat? on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:14:58 GMT]]>6 Newcastles a day, and a lot of time here…

Still losing weight thanks to cutting Hardees out of my diet :-)

]]>https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82857https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82857Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:14:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Mommy and Daddy so fat? on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:57:56 GMT]]>How about meals of budweiser beer.  Then t.v. or axis and allies or the comp.  But moreso the budweiser.  Ahh, diesel fuel.

]]>https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82855https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82855Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:57:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Mommy and Daddy so fat? on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:55:09 GMT]]>I know a LOT of Depo users that will disagree with you…  50-100 pounds in a YEAR from women who otherwise were never heavy before, and who SLOWLY drop that weight after ending Depo…

]]>https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82854https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82854Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:55:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Mommy and Daddy so fat? on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:25:42 GMT]]>Many recent studies have shown no real increase in weight secondary to contraceptives.

]]>https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82853https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82853Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:25:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Mommy and Daddy so fat? on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:45:16 GMT]]>The REAL reason people are overweight…

Too much eating, especially of ultra-high calorie fast foods as well as other high calorie processed foods
Too little excercise.

That is it.  Not rocket science.

Yes, contraceptives can have a serious impact, especially Depo.  But that can be countered via removing the two primary risks above.

And FYI:  That first I will swear upside down and sideways to.  Since January, I have dropped 25 pounds simply by taking my home-prepared lunch to work and dropping the 5 times a week trip to a fast food place.  No other changes… just killing fast food lunches.

]]>https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82848https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/82848Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:45:16 GMT