[citation][nom]weierstrass[/nom]How about a weight tax?[/citation]
tax us when evolution kicks in, at least than you have no reason to be fat.
we are fat now because most jobs no longer require us to move around for hours apon hours a day, and most of those jobs are minimum wage or barely more than minimum and un desireable.
whether we move around all day, or we sit down all day to work doesn't matter, our bodies want food.
for me to be satisfied with a meal, its about 1000-1500 calories worth of food, even when the food is healthy. if i eat less than that, im constantly hungry, but god knows i probably don't need more than 1000 calories a day to sustain my current life style. and what is this, running 1 mile nets you want 50 caleries... yea, i could exaust my self running all damn day but it wouldn't even make a dent and i will not work over 8 hours a day, than spend the rest of my day working out just so im not taxed.
point being wait till we evolve to where out current life styles are compensated by our meals, in 1-200 years i would say we will ajust completely for technology not requiring us to move as much.
[citation][nom]chairman ray[/nom]While I agree that a high-degree of self presence in virtual worlds may lead to motivation for weight loss, attaining this high-degree of self presence requires one to invest a significant portion of time on these online activities, which is one of the leading causes of obesity in the first place.The most obvious discredit towards this research is that in every game, the characters you play as or design are already meant to be attractive and it has never, ever curbed obesity. These characters serve to get the player to play more, rather than less. If attractive characters encouraged people to get off the computer and go outside, developers would be making ugly characters instead.[/citation]
get us a game where we move around.
if a game with 1 to 1 sword combat ever really came out, and required me to move, i would be in shape just because i love that style of game.
[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]How about you let fatties be fat? Sure, they cost more in healthcare but they die sooner, they create revenue for businesses that sell food and they make the rest of us look better in comparison.[/citation]
how about people design health care around fat people? make an mri 2-3 times larger inside, and you wouldn't need a zoo to lend you theirs for a 400lb person.
also, define fat, because skinny people are usually less healthy than people who are on the edge between obese and in shape according to that retarded bmi system.
[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]Also, lack of activity isn't the main cause of obesity. It's overeating, it's the food. The way fatties eat, they'd have to swim 6 hours a day like Michael Phelps to create a calorie deficit. And that would just make them more hungry, so it's a vicious cycle.[/citation]
i would rather be dead than hungry, and as i said, a filling meal for me is 1000-1500 calories of food that is healthy, much more when its not healthy food. [citation][nom]joytech22[/nom]What they SHOULD do is create a VR headset and body suit and create a game similar to GMOD (Or use GMOD). Then through this suit the user should be able to play around with spawned objects like bouncy balls and play sports through the game.They not only would have fun in this virtual world, but they could also do some real working out (As in, they could run around) and they'd be able to have fun while doing it.Although.. I'm not sure how it would be more fun than doing the real thing unless they are playing over the net or something.[/citation]
you make that sword fighting game, and i will be fit enough for the olympics.
[citation][nom]the1kingbob[/nom]This is partly true. If people were not so fat, the nation as a whole wouldn't be spending so much money on food and health related problems to being fat. They would though, be spending money on activity based consumer products. This overlooks the drastic savings to businesses that provide healthcare coverage. We already see a shift, companies realize that it is economically beneficial to pay employees to work out to get long term savings and discounts from insurance companies.I agree with your second comment, diet is 80% of weight control. You can run for an hour on a treadmill, but it is going to help much if you eat a few donuts for breakfast. The problem is what we eat, but more importantly how much we eat.[/citation]
and that is why i gave up ever trying to get thin.
ever look at a work out diet?
ever get a work out program try it for a while, see no results only to find out that its not the work out its the diet and how small the portions are or how much i hate every single food they suggest i eat.
[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]There is also the job aspect. Alot of american jobs are now barely active, from a physical aspect. You sit behind a desk or counter all day, hardly doing anything physical.[/citation]
and the jobs that are all active, are low paying and undesirable.
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