Bacon Meme of the Week
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9 responses to “Bacon Meme of the Week”
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YOLO baby, YOLO.
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I should have thought it was the beta amyloid plaques…
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Who cares?
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talk about a nation of “fatties”…
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The fattest person I know is on SSI and Medicaid. He spends most of his SSI money on fast food and Starbucks.
He’s something like 5’5″ and weighed 280 lbs. I think that’s referred to as “morbidly obese”.
He says it’s the medicine he’s on that’s making him fat. I guess that medicine is what causes him to each too much and sit around all day doing nothing.
I went to high school with this person. He lived in a trailer park then.
Remember how I mentioned “couch surfing”? That’s what this guy does. It works well for him, because, being at least a 5th-generation Virginian, he has a large selection of relatives in various parts of the state to sponge off of.
It’s also interesting that despite growing up in Northern Virginia (he was born in Fairfax and his family moved to the trailer park in Manassas when he was 5), he has an accent.
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Right. Don’t disagree but anecdotal is one-off stuff rather than actual statistics IMO.
If we think that a higher percentage of fatties don’t work and are receiving entitlements – and we actually show it – that would be convincing!
interesting chart:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/11/13/obesity-and-poverty-dont-always-go-together/
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Different sources come to different conclusions:
“It is well known that poorer Americans are more likely to be obese or suffer from diabetes; there is a strong negative correlation between household income and both obesity and diabetes. This negative correlation, however, has only developed in the past 30 years, according to researchers. Since 1990, the rise of obesity and diabetes was fastest among the poorest US regions.”
“It is well known that poorer Americans are more likely to be obese or suffer from diabetes; there is a strong negative correlation between household income and both obesity and diabetes. This negative correlation, however, has only developed in the past 30 years, according to researchers in Tennessee and London. Since 1990, the rise of obesity and diabetes was fastest among the poorest U.S. regions, says Alexander Bentley of the University of Tennessee in the US. The timing also fits with the generations exposed to high fructose corn syrup in foodstuffs and drinks, says Bentley, who is the lead author of a study in the journal Palgrave Communications, which is published by Springer Nature.”
I’d give you a link to the article, but this thing would probably just mark my post as spam..
It’s on Science Daily’s website.
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There’s a fair amount of evidence. I agree.
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We’re less impressive when they include Australia.
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