coralewisjr:
I find it funny that so many Americans have TVs in their homes and America has so many overweight people. If people would stop watching TV (or at least watch it a lot less) and go outside and play, ride bikes, take a nice long walk, etc., then people probably wouldn’t have such a hard time losing weight.
Also, remember that beauty comes from the soul. You could be really ugly and still be a beacon of God’s love to others.
my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne
This is extremely presumptuous.
I’m offended that you think it’s “funny” that America has so many overweight people due to television and that your brilliant solution is for everyone to “go outside and play.” Right, that will solve everything. I think statements like this just contribute to stereotypes about those people who suffer from the obesity epidemic and imply laziness as the sole causation for overweight struggles.
Sure, a sedentary lifestyle doesn’t help anyone and many who are sedentary happen to be obese–as I heard one obese person say to their personal trainer, “YOU try working out with an extra 100lbs on your back.”
There are so many other reasons for obesity that have nothing to do with tv watching. For instance, my weight has rapidly increased over the last two years. I have always been active, I played on sports teams in high school and college, I work out at the gym 4x a week and WE DO NOT HAVE CABLE. However, my bloodwork shows that I have hypothyroidism, insulin resistance, low progesterone and poly-cystic ovarian syndrome. My body weight is too high now, despite my efforts and my healthy eating lifestyle. But my bloodwork tells me that unless and until I am properly medicated, my efforts to maintain a healthy weight will continue to go nowhere. I am constantly fighting doctors who just want to look at me and say, “go to Jenny Craig and your problems will be solved.” Finally they are beginning to listen now that the bloodwork backs up exactly what I’ve been saying all along, but receiving the proper medication is still a long process and prolongs my weight problem.
I noticed another thread of yours that indicated you have trouble gaining weight. I felt compassion for you when reading about that struggle. I would hope that you could empathize with those of us on the other side of the spectrum who, for whatever medical reason, do not have well-working metabolic systems and instead must fight to remain healthy. The last thing any of us wants to hear is that our struggle is all wrapped up in how much TV we watch! Because that is simply not true.
Furthermore, as weight creeps up, depression sets in and it sometimes is difficult to keep one’s motivation up to fight what seems to be a losing battle. Studies show that sedentary lifestyles happen in correllation with weight gain. Meaning that the heavier a person gets, the more discouraged they are and the more difficult it is to physically move around and exercise.
I don’t know why you threw the comment in about beauty, either, but…I guess it makes sense to you, somehow.
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i hate that! i whine at them to get outside, but you know little kids… blob. instead of watching tv, i spend time with my animals, my music, school, or i help mom do work around the house. if i dont do any of that, i go take a walk in the woods and dream about things i want to do later sooo… in others words, i join the club!
I can see entirely where you are coming from…there is altogether too much sitting down doing nothing and that includes TV, it’s the same as doing nothing, a sloath uses up more energy than a human watching TV!
(it’s a fact…don’t ask me how I know all these useless bits of info, it due to my interest in the natural world and nature). So you are justified in p(name removed by moderator)ointing one of the reasons people become over-weight, people would benefit from getting out into the nature God has provided and raising their heart-beat in exercise. Some of it is disease, some of it is cultural and social, some of it is poor diet etc etc, it’s not all down to the TV.