Article: Will The New FDA School Snack Rules Help Obesity?
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fueledpassion
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How about no rules or laws and just let each district or state decide what they want or need?
Bigcountry08
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Because unfortunately the majority of the American population are supporters of a nanny state. It's apart of our natural animal instinct to want to take the easiest route of survival. I mean really why work hard if someone is willing just to hand it to you.
These guidelines will have no effect on the US's obesity problem, because obesity isn't caused by the food you eat it's a genetic disorder that can't be helped....
fueledpassion
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lol, well said.
I hope the "nanny state" is a fling that correlates to a particular generation. If we get lucky, maybe it'll live and die in that generation of people (which currently seems to be about half the Gen X'ers and all of the Millennials, myself excluded obviously)...
Oh and to add to your comment "It's a part of our natural animal instinct..." - a proverb to the nanny state'rs - animals don't have dominion over the earth, men do.
Clemenza
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Well said
nemix
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so your saying over the last 20+ years that obesity rates sky rocketing are all due to genetics? There are all these people saying they have thyroid problems when stats show only 5-10% of the population have them but 30%+ are obese and what is it now? 50-60% are overweight?
some people can't help it because of genetics, sure, but a lot of people can't help it because they have no self control when it comes to food and drinks.
Bigcountry08
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I was being sarcastic, I personally don't believe genetics play a role in obesity what so ever. The equation is simple taking In more calories then the body needs leads to fat gain, taking in less calories them the body needs leads to fat loss it's that simple.
fueledpassion
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Well, I would reword it to "taking In more calories then the body needs leads to weight gain, taking in less calories them the body needs leads to weight loss it's that simple."
I realize you might have meant it that way but yo-yo dieters that starve themselves and trigger the homeostatic mechanisms in the body will actually lose about half muscle mass and half fat mass in their weight loss efforts. Thing is, there are tons fo studies that indicate that within a year, the majority of those individuals gained back all of their fat mass and added even more to the baseline. Whats worse, unless the individual starts lifting weights, they don't put the muscle mass back on with the rebound weight gain. So basically, when it is all said and done, starvation diets result in a yo-yo effect, which leaves the person with more fat and less muscle mass, lowering the overall BMR and making it even harder to lose weight the next go around.
Caloric deficits tend to lower BMR by eating away at amino acids through gluconeogenesis. Doing this to the extreme - like eating less than your BMR, will trigger homeostatic mechanisms and cause your body to "fight" the weight loss. Of course, macro composition, meal timing, meal size and meal variety play key roles in this too. It's a system that is far more complicated than "calories in, calories out".