"In the United States in 2010, over 63% of people are overweight or obese."

You can watch all four parts of the HBO-documentary "The Weight Of The Nation" over here:

http://theweightofthenation.hbo.com/

in this forum we have the right to bear butter, gravy, syrup, etc...

"bear gravy" haha. sounds hardy

bourbon soaked bacon and cheddar waffle chops smothered in bear gravy

I read the title of this thread as "79 million Americans are predictable."

Me too.

I watched a pretty good documentary called forks over knives the other night that touched a bit on obesity, but mostly talked about diseases and illness that seem to be mostly from having an animal based diet instead of a plant based diet, it was pretty eye opening

I stopped eating red meat about a year ago. I still eat chicked and fish, but hopefully also give up chicken in the near future. It's not so much about health reasons (though I know it's not good for you) but I just started to have this naive thought in my head everytime I was at the meat counter "Could I kill a cow or a pig", and came to the conclusion that I couldn't, so I stopped eating red meat alltogether.

Cows and pigs are pretty easy to kill. I bet you could do it.

my wife doesnt eat any meat except for seafood partly because she could catch and clean a fish if she needed to to survive, and though i still eat most meat, i have always felt like some day i would get away from it because i dont like the idea of something having to die for my food, and i know i couldnt kill my own food( dont even think i could a fish if i ate seafood). since we have been together (going on 5 years now) i have almost totally cut out read meat, i dont like most pork so i dont really eat it, and poltry is something that i get tired of pretty easily, so with all the meatless products she has introduced me to, i feel like i could stop eating meat all together some day soon. i do however know its gonna be real hard for me to give up dairy products, but i may do it someday, we are getting ready to reall clean up our diet, and ill see how i handle the dairy stuff going away.

Especially pigs. One year, a friend invited me and a few others to his land specifically to exterminate a group of feral hogs that he had trapped. We took care of all twenty-two with nothing more than a 9mm and a child's beginner rifle.

By many accounts the greater Seattle area has a fairly "fit" population so I don't see a lot of this 63% (from the original post) first-hand, but I was down at the Super Mall in Auburn, WA today (like 40 minutes outside of Seattle) and after about 10 minutes of people watching I was like, oh yeah, 'Murica.

I don't know where this starts, but as a relatively new parent, I think it's fair to say it starts with parenting.

lol Auburn. You probably saw a lot of Puyallup plumpers there.

dr. pepper

Did they dare venture outside the South Hill Mall?

You catch the video of that 105 year old Texas Rangers fan who threw out a first pitch? Man she was awesome and said her secret to long life was 3 Dr. peppers a day.

i didn't see that, but i will now seek her out and she will become my lady love

i saw lenny had the last post in this thread and assumed it was his formal announcement.

Announcement that all his posts are predictable?

Oh shit, lenny got bammer'd

so you knew i was going to post what i was drinking in this thread?