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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: ManBearPig... on October 12, 2006, 07:03:16 PM
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Each year Americans drink 15 billion gallons of carbonated drinks.
That's rougly 50 gallons per person.
That's rougly 500 cans per person.
That's rougly 70,000 calories.
That's rougly a 20 lb gain a year. per person.
every year.
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and coffee with sugar,and fruit juice, koolaid, slurpys, etc.
Artificial sugar is key.
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400 Cokes a year!
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=96691.0
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Because peoples are lazy, someone said to me one day ''how many hours of tv are they watching?, can't you take one hour and a half and train'', most of them will never do it, why, too hard , too complicated, i don't like to do that, on and on.....
fast food and tv, that's the key, then 10 years later they wake up........ but it's gonna be harder to lose that extra fat and they will probably quite after 3 months.
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tv, computer, over eating, "super size it" and being lazy
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The portions in the US are larger than most places in the world... I always gain 5 lbs when I go to america
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Actually,
These really aren`t valid reasons of why America is fat.
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people are just getting lazier by the day. when i was a kid we used to go to the park, play baseball, baseketball, and all that shit. now i go by my old neighborhood and the parks and fields are empty. kids just sit inside on the comp and playstation eating shit
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Because peoples are lazy, someone said to me one day ''how many hours of tv are they watching?, can't you take one hour and a half and train'', most of them will never do it, why, too hard , too complicated, i don't like to do that, on and on.....
fast food and tv, that's the key, then 10 years later they wake up........ but it's gonna be harder to lose that extra fat and they will probably quite after 3 months.
Yep, in a nutshell.
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Actually,
These really aren`t valid reasons of why America is fat.
c'mon genius. dont hold back.
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WOULD IT MAKE IT YOU FEEL BETTER IF WE WERE FUCKEN STARVING?
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just makes me look better by comparison.
you can REALLY notice the difference if you go to europe...even in a place with lots of heavy foods like italy id say less than10% of the pop is fat.
id say as much as 40% of the women have nice legs, asses and bodies...compared to maybe 10% of american women. everywhere you see people walking around, being outside and actually using their bodies and enjoying real life.
americans tend to spend less than 10 minutes a day actually outside...just sit in front of a screen and drink sodas all day.
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The portions in the US are larger than most places in the world... I always gain 5 lbs when I go to america
Portion sizes are huge in restaurants in the US.
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american are universally known as fat fucks
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Americans work longer hours than any other country in the western world and spend allot of time traveling to and from work, many don't have time or don't make a consious effort to set aside time make sure their diets are in order. In the US fast food is cheap, readily available, the saves the hard working person allot of time. I'm an American living in Norway, the first thing I noticed about these social-capitalist style European countries is how they work a very strict 8-4 or 9-5 day, and many don't have the rediculous travel times we do in the states - and fast food is very expensive and not affordable for the average person to eat daily. Hell just look at the problems they had in Germany when Wal-Mart wanted folks to work longer than a 35 hour work week - in western europe people believe in going to work and getting the fuck home in time to enjoy the rest of the day!!! In the US people work very hard to make ends meet and many reward their hard days with bad foods.
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The land of the
fat free!!!
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Americans work longer hours than any other country in the western world and spend allot of time traveling to and from work, many don't have time or don't make a consious effort to set aside time make sure their diets are in order. In the US fast food is cheap, readily available, the saves the hard working person allot of time.
when you consider the fact that the average american also watches several hours of tv a day, this excuse doesnt really hold up.
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Exactly.
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most americans are just big people,,,both males and females,,,its as simple as that (irish,,scotish,,etc)
when you have big/thick people,, frame wize/bone wize,,,and you combine it with good ole whole milk, ham and pizza hut plus some macs and good ole sonnys,,,you create a belief in the american female's head that the average guy is 220lb,,and that makes her think that being 180lb makes her look good.....
the coutry is severly obese. if you gotta work out at 5'7 to maintain yourself at 240lb insted of 260lb ,,,you my friend are obese.
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people are just getting lazier by the day. when i was a kid we used to go to the park, play baseball, baseketball, and all that shit. now i go by my old neighborhood and the parks and fields are empty. kids just sit inside on the comp and playstation eating shit
Whats so bad about that? Actually I like it, keeps the noisy, little pains in the ass in the house making their parents life hell, not mine.
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Because peoples are lazy, someone said to me one day ''how many hours of tv are they watching?, can't you take one hour and a half and train'', most of them will never do it, why, too hard , too complicated, i don't like to do that, on and on.....
fast food and tv, that's the key, then 10 years later they wake up........ but it's gonna be harder to lose that extra fat and they will probably quite after 3 months.
How Come I eat Mcdonalds everyday just about and Burger King, Ice Cream Cookies Doughnuts and spend a lot of time watching Tv,Reading and on the computer and do NO cardio, yet manage to stay in single digit bodyfat?
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I love the excuses so far.....hahahahaha
Nobody has gotten the right answer yet as to why people are fat.
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Don't forget the beer and wine sections in most supermarkets are just as big or bigger than the soda section. And alcohol in my opinion puts on the pounds quicker than soda. At least some soda has caffeine in it to boost your metabolism some.
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I love the excuses so far.....hahahahaha
Nobody has gotten the right answer yet as to why people are fat.
you dumb fuck
you practice portion control combined with exercise.. brilliant... you have fucking ZERO muscle mass
TA, get off of your high horse. You are contributing nothing to this conversation
dumb fucking piece of shit
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The economy demands longer work hours and longer commutes
its as simple as that
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I love the excuses so far.....hahahahaha
Nobody has gotten the right answer yet as to why people are fat.
There is no specific answer, it's a number of factors, including bad diet, little excercise. Bad diet can be split up in too much fastfood, to much refined sugar, too big portions etc. The reasons behind those factors again have different causes, like lack of time, lack of knowledge, instant gratification motivation etc, sugar addiction. Suggesting that there's one answer is a folly. All this is no excuse for being aboses, but it shows obesity stems from cultural values to self-destructive behaviour to genetics in some cases. And all these factors intertwine and interact...
Besides, being single digit BF is different from being healthy, around 15% BF is perfectly normal and healthy, constantly being below 10% can lead to reduced immune-system functioningand disruption of the hormonal system, among others.
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Each year Americans drink 15 billion gallons of carbonated drinks.
That's rougly 50 gallons per person.
That's rougly 500 cans per person.
That's rougly 70,000 calories.
That's rougly a 20 lb gain a year. per person.
every year.
FAST FOOD FAST FOOD FAST FOOD :)
PB
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There is no specific answer
there is actually
mine
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there is actually
mine
;) if only life was that easy....
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our society demands convenience to supply productivity. we're all just rats on a revenue wheel to our respective governments.
obesity is just an economic side effect
it is that simple
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Many factors including too much time online.
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our society demands convenience to supply productivity. we're all just rats on a revenue wheel to our respective governments.
obesity is just an economic side effect
it is that simple
that's like saying it's a side effect of a certain lvl of civilization. Well, for a functional answer it's a bit too much of a meta level isn't it?
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I drink carbonated drinks like deit pepsi and I have abs bro.
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I think it is basically a matter of the diet. Large portions, as well as unhealthy foods seem to be fairly popular.
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I have to go to the US to see it for myself, I really can't belive that there are so many fat people.
on the plus side we have a lot of thick healthy chicks, nice big tits and ass. I love a girl with some good size on her.
these young girls running around with 25-35% BF..hmmmmmm
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that's like saying it's a side effect of a certain lvl of civilization.
wouldnt you agree that all civilizations are fabricated by their economic environment?
Well, for a functional answer it's a bit too much of a meta level isn't it?
semantics
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There is no specific answer, it's a number of factors, including bad diet, little excercise. Bad diet can be split up in too much fastfood, to much refined sugar, too big portions etc. The reasons behind those factors again have different causes, like lack of time, lack of knowledge, instant gratification motivation etc, sugar addiction. Suggesting that there's one answer is a folly. All this is no excuse for being aboses, but it shows obesity stems from cultural values to self-destructive behaviour to genetics in some cases. And all these factors intertwine and interact...
Besides, being single digit BF is different from being healthy, around 15% BF is perfectly normal and healthy, constantly being below 10% can lead to reduced immune-system functioningand disruption of the hormonal system, among others.
Don`t forget too many Chicken Breasts and Protein Shakes.
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I work out 5 days a week, but I eat like shit 7 days a week.
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wouldnt you agree that all civilizations are fabricated by their economic environment?
semantics
Semantics, mais non! Suppose you work a government organisation bestowed with the task of a program to reduce obesity and you were asked to try to get useable strategy for the problem, would you come up with the same answer? Short career it would be...
BTW Civilization and economic environment are interacting.
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I work out 5 days a week, but I eat like shit 7 days a week.
No such thing as eating like shit.
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Don`t forget too many Chicken Breasts and Protein Shakes.
I won't .... ;)
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Semantics, mais non! Suppose you work a government organisation bestowed with the task of a program to reduce obesity and you were asked to try to get useable strategy for the problem, would you come up with the same answer? Short career it would be...
BTW Civilization and economic environment are interacting.
Oui! Well it would be a counter productive strategy wouldnt it...after all, what Im suggesting, is it's the very environment they've created that's the cause.
btw Didnt Tom Clancy say that?
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weight gain is a simple matter of mathematics.......CALORI ES IN VS. CALORIES OUT plain and simple, if you eat more calories than you use you will build bodyfat and store adipose tissue it's as simple as that, it doesn't matter if the calories are from tuna and brown rice or pizza and ice cream, excess total calories equals bodyfat.
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Stupidity and lack of knowledge is the underlying reason.
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How Come I eat Mcdonalds everyday just about and Burger King, Ice Cream Cookies Doughnuts and spend a lot of time watching Tv,Reading and on the computer and do NO cardio, yet manage to stay in single digit bodyfat?
bro you were barely 8-9% for the mr getbig you are in double digits by no means overweight but you a5ren't in single digits
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Another.... A big filling hamburger $1.00 ready in two minutes and on every corner. Chase that down with some sugar water and bingo.... your fat!
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bro you were barely 8-9% for the mr getbig you are in double digits by no means overweight but you a5ren't in single digits
that mother fucker really pisses me off. The bastard came in second and won't shut the fuck up. Most people that come in second will congratulate the winner and strive to make improvements. Not this little piece of shit.
I know a girl, skinny as a bean pole, can't be more than 10% BF, never worked out before. But I don't need see her running around with the "skinny school girl principals".
and for the record she has more muscle mass than that dumb german mother fucker.
Go to any 3rd world country where people are starving and you will guys with more muscle mass than gay donis
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No such thing as eating like shit.
That's because you don't leave the gym in search of the nearest Oreo cookie. :D
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How Come I eat Mcdonalds everyday just about and Burger King, Ice Cream Cookies Doughnuts and spend a lot of time watching Tv,Reading and on the computer and do NO cardio, yet manage to stay in single digit bodyfat?
Fast metabilism and you exercise.....don't you get sick of eating junk food ?
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Dumb and fcuking fat ass americans wont change their shitty habits anytime soon
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that mother fucker really pisses me off. The bastard came in second and won't shut the f**k up. Most people that come in second will congratulate the winner and strive to make improvements. Not this little piece of shit.
I know a girl, skinny as a bean pole, can't be more than 10% BF, never worked out before. But I don't need see her running around with the "skinny school girl principals".
and for the record she has more muscle mass than that dumb german mother fucker.
Go to any 3rd world country where people are starving and you will guys with more muscle mass than gay donis
And lets see how you compare......I am confident that I would easily best you. If you disagree, please state why and provide unequivocal and irrefutable proof.
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when you consider the fact that the average american also watches several hours of tv a day, this excuse doesnt really hold up.
Diet info is treated like nuclear missle codes also. Like the "Glycemic Advantage", and "Relecore" to "shrink belly fat" bullshit. It's all smoke and mirrors. How many time have you heard people say "this diet didn't work for me", or "I work out all the time and nothing happens". 3500 cals burnt = 1 pound loss, 500 cals a day subracted from your BMR = 1 pound a week, another 500 cals burnt on cardio = another pound. With that equation you can get as agressive as you would like with fat loss. My 2 cents
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Americans work longer hours than any other country in the western world and spend allot of time traveling to and from work, many don't have time or don't make a consious effort to set aside time make sure their diets are in order. In the US fast food is cheap, readily available, the saves the hard working person allot of time. I'm an American living in Norway, the first thing I noticed about these social-capitalist style European countries is how they work a very strict 8-4 or 9-5 day, and many don't have the rediculous travel times we do in the states - and fast food is very expensive and not affordable for the average person to eat daily. Hell just look at the problems they had in Germany when Wal-Mart wanted folks to work longer than a 35 hour work week - in western europe people believe in going to work and getting the f**k home in time to enjoy the rest of the day!!! In the US people work very hard to make ends meet and many reward their hard days with bad foods.
agree..my hours are from 630-330 mon-fri..and when i leave at 330 i get grief for it...like i should be working longer just to appear like i'm giving a good effort..i'm like, doesn't the time i work from 630-330 matter anything? my boss is like no...no one cares about that..they want the extra effort...it's a product of this country..fuckers work you to death, tax your balls off, and wonder when a wacky s.o.b shoots up a office complex.
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The true reason is that people always try to fulfill themselves with food and drinks. Excessive eating is a lazy habit of bits of hunger and a sign of being too soft and weak inside the body.
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The true reason is that people always try to fulfill themselves with food and drinks. Excessive eating is a lazy habit of bits of hunger and a sign of being too soft and weak inside the body.
very true.
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bro you were barely 8-9% for the mr getbig you are in double digits by no means overweight but you a5ren't in single digits
he's lost more fat since the 'mr getbig' so he's leaner now.
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And lets see how you compare......I am confident that I would easily best you. If you disagree, please state why and provide unequivocal and irrefutable proof.
How exactly wouold he do that? Where is your irrefutable and unequivocal proof of anything?
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I thought America was fat because they took nutritional advice from Melvin Goodrum? LOL
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How Come I eat Mcdonalds everyday just about and Burger King, Ice Cream Cookies Doughnuts and spend a lot of time watching Tv,Reading and on the computer and do NO cardio, yet manage to stay in single digit bodyfat?
Who cares, it's not healthy. It's crap food and I'm not talking about because it is high in fat and or carbs.
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How exactly wouold he do that? Where is your irrefutable and unequivocal proof of anything?
He has proof of shit. ;D
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when you consider the fact that the average american also watches several hours of tv a day, this excuse doesnt really hold up.
If we did more cardio while watching TV, we'd be a lot better off.
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Americans are degenerating rapidly.
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btw: I have a client from Norway. They're on holiday most of the time. ::)
Are you telling me you wouldn't prefer to live like that if you got the same wage? You actually WANT to work? lol
Whats there for Americans to be so proud about for working stupid long hours if you can get paid the same in another country and have more time off and less hours?
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Are you telling me you wouldn't prefer to live like that if you got the same wage? You actually WANT to work? lol
Whats there for Americans to be so proud about for working stupid long hours if you can get paid the same in another country and have more time off and less hours?
Ha ha exactly. Working long hours, travel to and from work in slow traffic taking a looooong time, and only 2 lousy weeks vacation. The American Dream! OMG I'm jealous. ::)
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Ha ha, look at these bunch of fat bottom degenerates, avoiding to walk the stairs. Weak! ;D
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It's pretty simple:
Intake (food) - [expenditure (work, working out, cardio etc.) + regulatory requirements (brain activity, body temperature maintenance etc.) >= Weight gain
Period
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Ha ha, look at these bunch of fat bottom degenerates, avoiding to walk the stairs. Weak! ;D
24hr in San Diego.
I used to live about 1 mile from that gym.
Nasser trains there occasionally
;)
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Ha ha, look at these bunch of fat bottom degenerates, avoiding to walk the stairs. Weak! ;D
That has to be a joke!!!
Who the fuck uses a escalator when he goes to a gym??
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That has to be a joke!!!
Who the f**k uses a escalator when he goes to a gym??
Actually...that gym has always been known for having alot of hot girls that work out there
So....I would bet....alot of guys go there
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Actually...that gym has always been known for having alot of hot girls that work out there
So....I would bet....alot of guys go there
just plain stupid.
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just plain stupid.
It's the way it was built....they could have used stairs I'm sure
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Diet info is treated like nuclear missle codes also. Like the "Glycemic Advantage", and "Relecore" to "shrink belly fat" bullshit. It's all smoke and mirrors. How many time have you heard people say "this diet didn't work for me", or "I work out all the time and nothing happens". 3500 cals burnt = 1 pound loss, 500 cals a day subracted from your BMR = 1 pound a week, another 500 cals burnt on cardio = another pound. With that equation you can get as agressive as you would like with fat loss. My 2 cents
I agree with the names and such, but consumers are just as dumb as the names. I worked at a supplement store in high school and I'd always get asked if Creatine was a steroid. Fat ladies would ask if a diet pill is actually going to work, like they just had to sit on the couch pop a diet pill and watch it work?! Plus parents would come in and buy their kids at 14 or 15 creatine, pro-hormones, and anything else. My buddy got caught by his parents with steroids in high school and his mom brought him to the store and spent over $500 just so he wouldn't do steroids. Stupidity is the name of the game in most Americans.
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I think a lot of the decline in physical fitness for the general public is also due to the devalueing of the human body. You used to be a valuable worker if you were in good shape because you could handle a larger workload and accomplish things much more quickly and easily than someone who was not as fit. With the industrial revolution, all men became equal in the eyes of employers regardless of fitness. Add to that that as corporations have grown, they have gotten better and better at devalueing the individual, investing less and less in their employees and trying to figure out how to get the maximum amount of work out of them while still technically following labor laws. When you work for Wal-Mart you know that they don't care about you. And in the training you are exposed to hours and hours of indoctrination and corporate dogma, basically saying "Ask not what the company can do for you, but what you can do for the company". Sacrificing time and aspects of your life and your self are glorified, whereas putting the company anything but first is demonized. It's no surprise then that particularly in American culture where this has been taken to the biggest extreme, that we have people who are working far more and harder for much less at the expense of their health. Most employers don't respect their employees and actively train them to not respect themselves, so of course they're not going to take good care of themselves.
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It all comes down to laziness. Parents allow their kids to play playstation instead of join a sports team.
Fast Food became something of convenience because families are too busy trying to provide for their families
We have lost the sense of family...a nice dinner or breakfast at home with the family....
We have become the fattest nation because of laziness and the dollar!! Fast food has no nutrition at all..and in the end they are the ones profiting
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It all comes down to laziness. Parents allow their kids to play playstation instead of join a sports team.
Fast Food became something of convenience because families are too busy trying to provide for their families
We have lost the sense of family...a nice dinner or breakfast at home with the family....
We have become the fattest nation because of laziness and the dollar!! Fast food has no nutrition at all..and in the end they are the ones profiting
you are right on about these points and i may also add that also what is in american medcine cabinets are not helping the matter...From pain killers to anti/depressants...And the fact that half of americans smoke and are always trying to stop...And all the stupid get togethers that we try to have in this country...From X/mas to thanksgiving/birthdays/sporting events ect...They are all based around large amounts of food/alcohol...
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It all comes down to laziness. Parents allow their kids to play playstation instead of join a sports team.
Fast Food became something of convenience because families are too busy trying to provide for their families
We have lost the sense of family...a nice dinner or breakfast at home with the family....
We have become the fattest nation because of laziness and the dollar!! Fast food has no nutrition at all..and in the end they are the ones profiting
Plus the Goodbum Principles!
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I'm not a grunt and own my own company. So, yes. I do want to work because more work = more money. There is no same wage for fewer hours going on here. There is also a component of pride and satisfaction that comes in a day of good hard work done. Confidence that you can actually pull off a project and aren't a lazy f**k. Ironic how you all call us Americans fat and lazy because we, apparently, watch TV 24/7, yet, you all are laughing at us because you like your 2 months holiday and 6 hour work days. Talk about lazy.
Ok well you cant really relate this to self employed people as your wage is dependant on your workload. In general self employed people work way more hours and work harder world wide, not just the USA.
If you had a permanant job with a company however whos going to not want longer holidays and shorter hours if your wage is the same? Also Europeans are a lot more active than Americans so having time off work doesnt equate to being lazy. You dont HAVE to lay in front of the TV for a whole week when off work.
There isnt much to be proud of in being a population of overworked people (although the US has lots to be proud of of course).
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I just looked at my social security benefits statement the other day and the US government now expects me to work to 67 in order to get full benefits when I believe it used to be 65. The US government wants me to work until 67. I might just be working for walmart when I get to be in my sixties as a greeter with one foot in my grave.
And the less employers can give you the more they can put in their own greedy little pockets.
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I have a 5 page essay due tomorrow on this same subject. :'(
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Ok well you cant really relate this to self employed people as your wage is dependant on your workload. In general self employed people work way more hours and work harder world wide, not just the USA.
If you had a permanant job with a company however whos going to not want longer holidays and shorter hours if your wage is the same? Also Europeans are a lot more active than Americans so having time off work doesnt equate to being lazy. You dont HAVE to lay in front of the TV for a whole week when off work.
There isnt much to be proud of in being a population of overworked people (although the US has lots to be proud of of course).
i have read that its much more stressful to work for someone then it is to work for yourself...