People living longer... or not...?

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We had a walk around lovely Camarthan Town earlier today - 95% of the people were over weight.

The Memsahib noted that all this stuff about people living longer won't be an issue soon as we're getting to the end of the healthier generation brought up in the 50's to 70's, and entering the fat zone.

As it's always said, you don't see fat people in old folks homes (staff excluded).

Was an interesting point I thought.

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geeks said:

I assume the OP is a picture of perfect health and physique to be casting aspersions on 95% of the population of one area?

Why the personal comment?

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True - I suppose not everyone can fall around the middle of the bell curve.

Will be interesting to see what happens - either way, as said, the NHS will take a massive kicking.

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Yeah - he looks great.

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Watch 'Secret Eaters'.

It's usually a combination of denial and delusion.

They're asked at the start what they think their calorie intake is. They all, without fail, think it's at least half of the reality.

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Terminator X said:

Henners said:

I work with a lady who's about 350lbs and really struggles day to day, yet has a bacon sandwich each morning and crisps with a brown lunch and red coke.

That can't be it though, she must also east sweets, donuts etc until they burst out of her ears ... cals in vs cals out is all it is after all.

TX.

Had a guy work for me, Egytian fella, 150kgs, his (tiny) wife would try and put him on all sorts of diets to the piont where she'd prepare and pack meals for him - he'd eat those by 10am. He'd disappear for a while every now and again, a bit like a smoker popping out, but you'd not see him eat anything else during the day - we were in an office block with a cake shop and a Burger King downstairs...

He got bigger in the time I worked with him.

Wouldn't exercise as everything hurt his ankles (gravity is a bh) and couldn't swim.

Lied to himself and to the people he apparently loved - he'll be dead by 60, if not earlier.