Nobody in rural Iowa is eating that stuff. They could sell 52oz. cups of gravy there.
Most Obese States
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I've said this for years. Diet controls your weight, but exercise controls how good you feel.
I think the rural food issue is tied to poverty. Anyone who can afford to water their garden has one in a small town. Farmer’s market twice a week with actual produce. Of course unless you have a big freezer you still have a problem part of the year.
It sucks, because I’m not hating on people for being fat or wanting people to feel bad, but there are no good excuses. You can make whatever excuse you want, but no places have become less hospitable to exercise in the last 40 years, and good foods are probably more accessible.
The truth is that the bad habits are just also easier to feed (no pun intended), and many people have chosen to be more sedentary and to eat more sugars and processed foods. If you live in a rural area, you can easily have a large garden. That’s exercise and food that is better for you and tastes better honestly. But it’s work to get outside and do it…and it’s also more work to cook/prepare it the right way…
I mean, this actually exists
You would be surprised how fast you can burn calories by switching up the way you workout. I’ll do a hard leg workout for about 45 minutes to an hour and burn 700 calories, and then do an incline walk at a fairly decent pace and burn another 3-400. You have to really push yourself though to get there. Most people when they workout are just half ass moving around to the workouts or not truly hitting them hard. If you make a workout kick your ass you can burn quickly.
Anyone trying to lose weight should absolutely lift weights. You get the calories to continue to burn even after you are done as the muscles repair themselves. I try to get people to lift with me all the time who are just walkers or runners.
Lambeau Field on Sundays is #1 on the obesity list and it's not even close.
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As someone that has lots of friends and family in both the twin cities and Madison as well as rural SE Minnesota and western Wisconsin I can assure you there is a big difference. There is even a difference in rural northern and NE Minnesota vs southern. Access to and the desire to do year round active hobbies plays a big role.
SEC! SEC! SEC!
Workout to grow it, diet to show it.
Agreed. Don't worry about cholesterol. Cholesterol is in every cell in the body. Most of the cholesterol in your body was made by your body, not ingested. Cholesterol is essential.
Want to avoid/reverse obesity and the chronic diseases rampant today, the diseases making most people fat and sick? Avoid Omega 6 fatty acid, specifically lineolic acid, like the plague it is. Avoid all seed oils and anything fried in seed oils, avoid all fake/processed foods, avoid chicken, pork (all fed high Omega 6 diets which winds up in their flesh). Eat ruminant meats - beef, lamb, goat, etc. Eat only real food, never fake/processed food. Simple. But not easy.
I have no clue where the avoid seed oils things comes from, but I’m fairly positive that has been debunked.
No need to avoid healthy omega-6 fats - Harvard Health
Omega-6 fats were once criticized as unhealthy, but researchers for the American Heart Association have concluded that they are in fact beneficial to the heart. ...
www.health.harvard.edu
Also, there is nothing wrong with eating pork or chicken, either. This seems like some of those extreme “health” people you see on tv basically saying you can never eat anything it will kill you.
