Obesity now a global issue - Page 3

On May 30 2014 00:27 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

this is a web forum not a phd thesis.
i basically subscribe to Dr. John Berardi's research results.as noted in a previous post...

ok great... take in 48,000 calories in 1 feeding every 14 days.
compare that with 6 meals a day.

frequency of eating matters.
you've already put the 24 hour assumption in your post with your "per day" thing with food.

nice attempt to shift the debate into your own assumption set.

frequency of eating matters.
your body will go into starvation mode with method 2.

On May 30 2014 00:42 Pandemona wrote:
Interesting issue as many people are lured into all sorts of issues when it comes to their diets. But that shouldn't be where we point all the problems too, food has to be eaten or your not going to survive. What you need to look at is why people do not get the exercise they need.
People cant buy fresh vegetables and what not in some countries/cities due to prices is so high compared to a frozen pizza or whatever. So what is the excuse of not walking to walk in the summer (if you can) or going for a cycle or whatever.
Exercise is the key to beating obesity for me not changing the way food is.
I mean who can resist McDonalds or whatever take away when they do stupidly cheap offers.

It is a problem and we need to tackle it with exercise!!

On May 30 2014 01:02 DrCooper wrote:


Sorry that is bro-science. There are no studies that point to a higher meal frequency leading resulting in a higher metabolic rate or better weight loss. Even John Berardi agrees with that. Now there is very little research on the "health" perspective (Vitamins, Cholesterol, etc.) of meal frequency. All studies that investigate meal frequency seem to focus on weight loss/metabolic rate.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9155494
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19943985
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20847729

The price of foods is a huge issue. I was travelling in central america this spring and a bottle of water was more expensive than in europe. But if you like coke, you got that dirt cheap.

On May 30 2014 00:42 Pandemona wrote:
20minute exercise x 4 days a week with dumbells on a friday is all i do.

On May 30 2014 02:23 FractalsOnFire wrote:
What I am really curious about is how first world Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore maintain such low rates of obesity, yet have western food influences (McDs, KFC etc) and in the case of Singapore, cheap relatively unhealthy options as well (e.g hawker centres)

On May 30 2014 02:33 Bongy wrote:
In my opinion obesity is a personal issue. I don't think any country needs to do more to regulate this as people who don't like being obese are themselves required to change their diet and/or exercise. It is not hard to know that water has less calories than cola. And everyone knows the word calories, if they don't quite understand what it is then it is only a google search away.

On May 30 2014 02:43 urboss wrote:
Yeah, that's true, fast food is probably not the only explanation.
Japan has the second highest McDonald's density world wide.
http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-around-the-world-density-map-2013-7

I don't know what's wrong with Libya for example.
They don't even have a McDonald's there.
They are still a developing country.
And they're supposed to have the healthy Mediterranean food.

On May 30 2014 02:32 barbsq wrote:

IDK about other areas, but in Japan, it's all about eating smaller portions. Case in point, my younger brother who went there for a few weeks said he basically felt as though he never had enough to eat, and could eat 2-3 meals worth of a normal japanese person's food in a single sitting.

On May 30 2014 02:23 FractalsOnFire wrote:
What I am really curious about is how first world Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore maintain such low rates of obesity, yet have western food influences (McDs, KFC etc) and in the case of Singapore, cheap relatively unhealthy options as well (e.g hawker centres)