A question about seriously overweight people?!
Question: You've all seen those programs on TV about hugely overweight people who seem to do nothing but eat all day. My question is ... how do they afford to by all that food??? I mean, supermarket shopping is expensive and fast food isn't cheap - do these people go out to work? A lot of them seem to be too overweight to be able to do a full time job - where do they get the money from? Welfare??
Answers: You've all seen those programs on TV about hugely overweight people who seem to do nothing but eat all day. My question is ... how do they afford to by all that food??? I mean, supermarket shopping is expensive and fast food isn't cheap - do these people go out to work? A lot of them seem to be too overweight to be able to do a full time job - where do they get the money from? Welfare??
The answer is ... it doesn't stop with the people you see on t.v.. This starts as a problem because a number of reasons . First is the lack of education we have about leading a healthy lifestyle in our public schools. Have you seen the nutritional guidelines for our children's lunches. I checked it out because I'm learning about nutrition and was wanting to know what is available at my kids school. Well one day they had a 550 calorie lunch ( acceptable) then the next days lunch was 1200 calories ( unacceptable). I found they are also putting trans fats in our kids lunches still. Fast food joints have st oped using trans fat, why haven't our schools? Then secondly the ignorance to the fact that 75% OF THE FOOD SOLD ON OUR GROCERY STORES IS OVERLY PROSESSED AND CHEICALIZED and most of the time unreccoizable from what it was grown to be. I found tryijng to eat healthy natural real food. It is way cheaper to get higher calerie hihger fat and more prossesd foods you can get more of the bad stuff on a low budget rather than the same amoutnt of healthyer choices.When you have a budget you have to do what you can. And most of important to provent obesity you need to balance your activity level with your food intake. Dont' eat more than you move.
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maybe the food they eat has high fat in it and full of calories
I know........I've often thought that myself. It has to be Benefits doesn't it?
The whole point is the programs have got it wrong. People who are overweight DON'T always eat all day. Many of them probably know about good nutrition than the average person. They are also good at balancing a budget. Statistically speaking, people who are overweight are also more likely to be on welfare, not because they don't work but because they are too busy making ends meet.
A lot of times they have family members that are helping them eat themselves to death. The family will either buy the food the obese people want or make the food themselves or both.
I've watched these programs too, and have come to the conclusion that these people have relatives and love ones who prepare and serve them food.
These people may mean well, but they are "enablers" to the overweight person......by feeding them more than they actually need.
On the Discovery Channel, there was a young man who weighed about 700lbs, and he would send money down stairs in a bucket for "take out" if his family didn't continually cook and serve him. Very sad!
As to where the money comes from......probably family and maybe welfare in the form of disability payments......at 700 lbs, I doubt if he would have been able to work or even get a job.
according to all the charts I'm heading that way. I work in an office and one other person I know with a weight problem works on the phones and when you speak to her she sounds skinny. I do not spend a lot on food . I have kept records for my dietitian and I would not be spending more than $50 a week but my weight is not improving. I have also been to lectures good but still no improvement. I know what to do and do not buy fat foods just the meals I have are simply too big only a plate full but am in the process of getting smaller plates. I go out for meals once a week and share a meal at the central market so it is not a great expense.
Some people who are very obese are classed as disabled and so would get both the mobility and personal care components of disability benefit and possibly income support as well. I know some people who are on