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RECESSION LARDASSIFICATION

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@ January 12, 2009 8:49 AM Permalink | Comments (28) | TrackBacks (0)

This statistic should astound you .. then again, if you have been to Disney World lately, maybe not. The number of American adults who are obese has surpassed the number of adults who are merely overweight. More than 34% of adults are considered obese. That is more than 72 million Americans. This is compared to 32.7% of adults who are just overweight. I'm not a genius, but that means that almost 70% of our population is made up of lardassess ... blubber butts .. however you want to classify them.

But don't worry, now we have an excuse. Because of the downturn in the economy, health professionals are worried that Americans are going to gain more weight. More weight?? They are calling it "recession pounds" and it is exactly what you think: people in a recession spend less money on food and end up buying a lot of junk and fluff for their money. They aren't eating as healthy and therefore gain weight. Naturally this affects the poor the most. EVERYTHING affects the poor the most. Even the end of the world will have a disproportionate affect on the poor. Don't worry .. I'm sure the Obama administration is working on a government program to make grocery-buying a fair playing field for everyone.

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  • BMI is only part of the picture...
    Those who are athletic/body builders but considered obese with BMI need to lighten up. Another good metric is diameter of waist compared to height. Your waist should be no more than half of your height. I'm guessing those body builders who fail the BMI test have a waist size less than half their height. Frankly, I think it is a better metric. If you fail both, then you probably are obese.
    By FeedFwd @ 01/19/09 02:07:11 PMreport abuse
  • Fat peeps look out
    Yeah, soon it will be illegal to be overweight...they will take your children, restrict you when you buy groceries, and take away travelling by bus/train/taxi with excuses such as "it takes more FUEL to haul you around than REAL people"
    If someone really cared about health in America, there would be more people working for the FDA and more people making sure salmonella etc stayed OUTA the food supply...
    By Laura @ 01/19/09 10:22:53 AMreport abuse
  • Pixar got it right with Wall*E
    Anyone else recognize the irony while watching Wall*E. A generation of lard asses living in a near comma induced entertainment world.
    By Sean Brogan @ 01/17/09 03:20:58 PMreport abuse
  • bmi
    I don't need a BMI to tell me when I'm becoming fat. I just pull out last year's jeans and no more Twinkie's for me!
    By carol @ 01/17/09 10:20:13 AMreport abuse
  • Recession Lardassification
    Aw come on Neal, you know that THEY "always" price the healthy food out of the range of us poor simple folk! (being facetious of course)
    By Ernie Herd @ 01/16/09 07:41:53 PMreport abuse
  • more than their "fair share"
    maybe Osama Obama will conclude that too many people occupy more than their fair share of the BIOMASS. We need to redistribute the weight. Kinda redefines the term "fat-cats" doesn't it?
    By dawg4fr @ 01/13/09 12:18:47 AMreport abuse
  • Disney Lards
    Neal: Took my family to Disney for the holidays and you are sooooo right. Disney msut be making a fortune on motorized scooters for the unbelievably large. It is sickening to see. I have no problem with an actual physically disabled person's need for a wheelchair or scooter but I felt like I was at Daytona Beach Biker week with the number of fat butts on scooters. They need to put down the giant turkey legs and get off their fat butts and walk a bit. P.S. The bus comment was right on. Scooters add ten minutes to the stop so they can be strapped in like giant astronauts.
    By Disgusted @ 01/12/09 09:18:39 PMreport abuse
  • Be Thankful...
    Obesity is one of the FEW things that politicians can't transfer to the non-obese.

    Just think- money can be transfered from those who have worked hard to earn it, to those who haven't. Ditto property. Those two things are pretty all-encompassing.

    Do you doubt for an instant that, were there way to efficiently transfer the excess weight from some Homo Spherian to people who watched what they ate and exercised regularly, politicians wouldn't figure out some way to mandate such a practice? And they'd have every excuse in the book, from "general welfare" to "for da chilrunz!!!1!".

    But they can't. This is one instance of people who abdicate self-responsibility NOT being able to dump the consequences of such onto others. They are forced to face the end result of their dietary choices EVERY time they look in the mirror. No faking reality on this one.
    By Kirk Johnson @ 01/12/09 08:54:30 PMreport abuse
  • A healthy diet is more costly
    A truly healthy diet does cost more than a diet full of trash. At my supermarket, lean beef costs more per pound than fatty ground round and the ingrediets for homemade chicken noodle soup cost more than a box of Easy Mac.

    I think, however, that how you eat is more about priorities than how much money you have. Americans just don't make a healthy diet a top priority. And that goes for middle class folks, too. I can't tell you how many times I've seen dolled-up stay-at-home moms at my middle-class grocery store, yaking on their expensive cell phones and pushing their carts full of convenience foods like toaster pastries, sugar-coated cereal, cookies, frozen and boxed meals, and other items I call "colorful boxes of death". I've heard people gripe and moan about seeing welfare recipients buy nothing but trash, but you know, they're not the only ones. Americans love convenience, we love garbage food, we have no taste for good stuff.
    By Kore B. @ 01/12/09 04:13:31 PMreport abuse
  • Lardassification
    Good Googly Moogly that is sickening... not to mention the Methane gas likely expelled. Where are all the Global Warming wackos when you need them?
    By Ric Gleason @ 01/12/09 12:51:15 PMreport abuse
  • LardAssiffication
    Just wondering if there has been any study that ties obsity to global warming - cause the two, according to the media appear to coincide. Just sayin.
    By SRH @ 01/12/09 12:33:55 PMreport abuse
  • RECESSION LARDASSIFICATION
    Hey Neal,
    BMI does over-inflate the overweight/obese statistics. I am 5'11" and 200+/-5 pounds. I am considered Obese. B%ll sh*t. I'll concede that I could afford to loose 20 or 30 pounds to get back to my middle-age weight (I am 62). I do 100 pushups and 100 situps at a time. I brisk walk my Akita/Pit Bull for 2 miles every other day...must be the corn bread or deep fried turkey?
    Figures don't lie (they sit on folding chairs) but liars figure...the BMI.
    By Buddy in Huntsville @ 01/12/09 12:30:16 PMreport abuse
  • fat people on airplanes
    That looks frighteningly similar to the lard-ass seated next to me on the flight from Toronto to Atlanta. She had been assigned the aisle seat, but I refused to be crushed (didn't explain myself....just told her I wasn't sitting in the window seat). She was irritated, but to avoid an embarrassing scene she reluctantly took the window seat. Needless to say, we didn't engage in any light-hearted conversation. She won in the end though, because she ended up occupying half of my seat and didn't have to pay for it. On a positive note, I did stay cozy warm.
    By Jeff @ 01/12/09 12:08:57 PMreport abuse
  • Fatasses
    Ok, here's what Obama REALLY needs to do...put an "anti-obesity plan" into effect, by imposing a "fat tax" on all junk food. This will increase government revenue, and at the same time, should help slow down consumption of junk food that's bad for you. But it will never fly..why? Two reasons... 1) it imposes personal responsibility, and 2) chances are those lardasses that are buying the junk food are probably those that elected Obama in the first place.
    By Frito-Lard @ 01/12/09 11:58:52 AMreport abuse
  • Fat People
    All I can say is poor chair.
    By John @ 01/12/09 11:38:35 AMreport abuse
  • Fat people
    You say the number of fat people is growing...well your right...and they all shop at the Mall of GA!!!!
    By Jean Goodin @ 01/12/09 11:12:54 AMreport abuse
  • Tonnage
    Yep. These are the same lazies that will drive around a parking lot 15 minutes looking for a closer space to save 20 steps. And they wonder why they are fatasses.
    By Jon @ 01/12/09 11:11:21 AMreport abuse
  • BMI is BULL!
    It doesn't take body composition into account. I went to grad school with a guy who was a competitive bodybuilder--11% body fat, all muscle. Basically, you'd kill to have a physique like this guy's. What did the BMI say about him? Obese. I was merely very fit and well muscled, so I came out as overweight.
    By Bubba @ 01/12/09 11:10:47 AMreport abuse
  • Neil
    Love ya Neil, but you're probably in the 70% of lardasses too.

    Just so ya know.
    By Buster @ 01/12/09 11:10:24 AMreport abuse
  • Lardassification
    Does this count?

    http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l122/bgamelson/FatMan.jpg
    By Bill Gamelson @ 01/12/09 10:49:58 AMreport abuse
  • Alter the statistics to fit the conclusion!
    BMI does NOT measure obesity - but that's how it's being used, because it's the fastest way to make the statistics fit the conclusion.

    BMI is convenient: it's just a ratio of height to weight. It's more difficult to measure body fat ratio - which would tend to measure obesity, but would tend to disinclude those disgusting mesomorphs (muscular folks).
    By Jubilation T. Cornpone @ 01/12/09 10:21:23 AMreport abuse
  • Lard Asses
    First, I completely agree with the BMI chart nonsense, especially true if you are a tall male that builds up any muscle mass. The data is likely flawed.

    Even so, obesity is an epidemic that is rapidly losing any kind of stigma. (Woe unto you if you reject a fat chick... pretty soon lawyers will start convincing single women over 30 who are fat that there is someone to blame and sue!) The "recession pounds" thing goes right with that sort of nonsense. Yes, you can eat "junk" for relatively cheap. You can also eat non-processed, healthy food for cheaper. Fresh vegetables and completely unprocessed foods will always remain some of the least expensive items at the store IF you're not too lazy to prepare them. Also, I have eat out the least lately that I have in several years... and I can already feel the difference!
    By Jared A. Chambers @ 01/12/09 10:12:51 AMreport abuse
  • Disney Lard Asses
    Amen to Boortz! We went to Disney over Thanksgiving, and although we saw plenty of people who were justifiably using those electric scooters (truly handicapped people), I believe we saw more cases of just plain fat people using them to motor around.

    My favorite moment: when a lard-ass on a scooter buts in front of someone and says, "Scooter people go first!"

    We tried taking Disney transport from our hotel one day, but the bus drivers have to strap the lard butts in their scooters in first, and it takes a good 5 - 10 minutes per scooter to get them strapped in. So we skipped the buses from then on and drove to Disney.

    A friend of mine was in Europe on a tour once, and the tour guide said, "If you want to feel thin, go to America." Amen.
    By Bman @ 01/12/09 09:29:01 AMreport abuse
  • Fat is Green!!
    "Recession Fat" is simply a means of providing alternative energy. A few weeks ago there was a report about a liposuction doctor in California that was using human fat as biofuel.
    And if fat can be used as fuel, then south Georgia will become the new Kuwait. Although until an efficient extraction system is developed I'm going to look pretty strange chasing blimpos around Walmart with a Hoover
    By Neil Russell @ 01/12/09 09:17:15 AMreport abuse
  • LARDASSIFICATION
    You don't have to go to Disney World to see this. Run down to your local Golden Corral or Ryan's steakhouse where they have a buffet. Fatties on parade!
    By Scott @ 01/12/09 09:05:52 AMreport abuse
  • Lard butts
    http://boortz.com/slideshow/inpage/book-signing-barnes-noble-the-avenue-wes/3
    By Hugo's ghost @ 01/12/09 09:03:35 AMreport abuse
  • Obesity and BMI
    Any statistic that is based on BMI is trash. I have an atheltic body and am 2 pounds from being "obese". How many in this study fit the same mold?

    Yes, I agree people such as the person in the picture are obese, but the study uses the BMI scale as the basis for its findings. Therefore, it seems safe to assume the numbers are distorted by people like me.
    By Paul @ 01/12/09 09:02:08 AMreport abuse
  • Is the data correct?
    Looking around I beleive that this statistic is probably right, but how is the data collected. At 6 feet tall and weighing 200 pounds, I would be considered overweight by the charts. I am a wrestling coach and can guarantee you that my body fat is around 10 percent. I think these numbers could be a little inflated.
    By Brad @ 01/12/09 08:59:50 AMreport abuse
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