Real Weight loss?

[PJgunner]

Originally posted by DaMadman
You know why tehy were all thin?? it's because they didn't have the Money to buy large amounts of the things they ate.

People ate bread and fillers (carbs) back then because they didn't have the $$$ to buy extra meat. They ate things fried in lard because Lard was CHEAP. The bread and butter and jelly (if you were luck) was on the table to fill you up after the real food was gone and you were still hungry. People ate spaghetti because it was cheap and filled you up and it didn't have 2 pounds of ground beef in it. It had a little meat to flavor the sauce and that was it. You get the drift

Bottom line is people ate what they could afford, now people have the $$$ to afford everything the want to eat and then some....

Just Super Size it.....

You're only partly right here. People did physical labor. They didn't have a backhoe to dig those ditches, they used shovels and dug them by hand. Even though they ate lots of carbs, those carbs were the fuel that kept them going.
My late father-in-law made the comment that, "There afren't any more ditch diggers anymore." Maybe that's one reason obesity is a problem these days.
I do have the theory that the meat we eat today is so contaminated with chemicals used by the feedlots to fatten up cattle that some of it must fremain in the meat and is fattening up up for the kill, not to mention all the antibiotics those cattle get to keep them from getting diseased. Could this be the reason many germs in humans today are so resistant to antibiotics?
Let's see here. lack of physical labor in the workplace because machines do it faster, save business money and jobs get done quicker saving even more money. Livestock is given feed laced with chemicals to fatten it up in as short a time as possible using less feed which saves business money., yet they charge more for that meat. That meat also is fed antibiotics to keep the herd penned up in crowded conditions healthy which end up in our bodies. The combination of fattening up chemicals and antibiotics ending up in out bodies making us gaim weight as well are immunizing bacteria in out body against antibiotics used to kill them. Is something wrong with this picture? It's all about money, and if the greedy kill us off due to obesity caused by their product, I guess it is just Tango Sierra for us.
Do you know that you can not legally go to a ranch and buy a steer to butcher? It's against the law. The brand has to be inspected by a FEDERAL brand inspector. Guess who got that law put in place? The big meat packing companies, that's who.
I lived for ten years in a small rural town in Nevada and got fairly friendly with several ranchers by shooting coyotes on their land. I asked about buying a steer to butcher and was told about the laws preventing the rancher from selling me the beef.
They say wild venison (deer, elk caribou and moose) have little or no cholesterol in their meat which makes it healthy to eat. Guess what? Range beef doesn't have any of that crap in it either. It get into the meat at the feed lot. Surprise! Surprise! (In my best Gomer Pyle accent.)
It's all about the money, and we have trhe ebst government business can buy.
Sorry if I got too far off thread, but I feel it is relevent.
Paul B.