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shateredsoul1979:
Uhm, most of the truckers I know are pretty overweight. I do not agree with the BMI as the only way to asses whether someone is overweight, but if you look at other countries 1st and 3rd world people eat much smaller portions than we do. Our regular size drink is their super large size.

Vigo:
Haha, I was going for movie stereotypical bar room brawl kinda trucker.  ;)

shmokes:
Plus I'm not sure the CDC is even using BMI, or solely using BMI, or using BMI without correcting for its deficiencies.  Are you sure that you can attack the veracity of the claims at all based on BMI shortcomings?  I mean, either way we're just splitting hairs, since we both agree that there's a major problem with obesity in the U.S..  But still, I wouldn't be surprised if the CDC's statistics are more sophisticated than just BMI averages.

Vigo:
The CDC set the BMI as the standard definition of Obesity. Their study would definitely be using their own definition. Here is the link to the CDC definition of obesity:

http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/defining.html

But yeah, we are agreeing on the issue, this is pretty much just mucking over the details.  :lol

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 14, 2011, 04:27:40 pm ---Gotta love a country where even the unemployed people are fat.

--- End quote ---


This is exactly why I will never buy the "people are often fat because they are poor" idea.  Sorry, when I was poor, fat wasn't happening.  No matter how many ramen packets or peanut butter sandwiches I ate it just didn't happen.  I never managed to get to 30% bodyfat eating 3oz of cube steak and 4 potatoes.  Real poor food, the "I have $2 to feed myself today" food, doesn't make you fat no matter how much of it you eat.

Fast food is expensive.  Frozen food is expensive.  A person who really is hurting for money cannot afford dense calorie heavy fat garbage foods.  That's the food they're saying the fat lower class is getting fat on, right?  Value meals, frozen pizzas, fast food?  That stuff was an occasional indulgence when I had no money at all.  

BTW, for the pullup bar I put a couple screw hooks into my basement rafters and ran a 3/4" pipe across them.  Cost was about $5. 

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