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Statistic I heard today was that over 50% of the adult, UK population were overweight. How can this be? If more than half of people are that fat then the average needs to be realigned so that a smaller percentage are above it. \You surely cant have a greater percentage in that category without it making people in that category normal ie not overweight. I think!
Thankyou4calling said:
Statistic I heard today was that over 50% of the adult, UK population were overweight. How can this be? If more than half of people are that fat then the average needs to be realigned so that a smaller percentage are above it. \You surely cant have a greater percentage in that category without it making people in that category normal ie not overweight. I think!
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Bread Is Dangerous
Important Warning for those who have been drawn unsuspectingly into the use of bread:
1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
Important Warning for those who have been drawn unsuspectingly into the use of bread:
1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
9 out of 10nammynake said:
Thankyou4calling said:
Statistic I heard today was that over 50% of the adult, UK population were overweight. How can this be? If more than half of people are that fat then the average needs to be realigned so that a smaller percentage are above it. \You surely cant have a greater percentage in that category without it making people in that category normal ie not overweight. I think!
'Overweight' is defined by BMI, not by the average weight of all people in the UK.Then the number needs to be revised at which people are determined overweight surely, it cant just be a fixed number, if people are getting heavier, which they are, you have to revise, no? Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff