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Two years ago, the Hardee's fast-food chain introduced the 1,420-calorie 107-fat-gram "Monster Thickburger." It contains two 1/3-pound slabs of Angus beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese, and mayonnaise on a buttered sesame-seed bun.

And it's damn tasty. Have one for lunch, skip supper, spend the next day on the toilet.

/overweight by about 50lbs

Ryoshin

ok that was to much info

Stand by your man: More than a decade ago, Manuel Uribe, now weighing 1,200 pounds (the equivalent of five baby elephants) and bedridden for the past five years, was abandoned by his wife because she was frightened by his increasing size.

No shiat!

She probably thought she would get lost in his folds.

Now, I am no supermodel, but I always have to wonder: how the hell does someone let themselves get so fat? I mean, you'd have to actively pursue it to get past a thousand pounds, wouldn't you?

That article should have been titled '20 things you never knew about being a shallow, self centered, image obsessed asshat but were afraid to ask'.

FTA - 10. Duke University Medical Center found that women and men who lost 10 percent of their total body weight reported a significant improvement in their sexual quality of life.

Because it gave them more sucking power?

15. Recent studies have shown that obesity can cause you to lose sleep.

16. On the other hand, a lack of sleep may result in obesity.

17. It's a vicious cycle.

17 shouldn't be an item on the list. Cutesy writing like this I'd expect from Cosmo, but I don't want to see it from my "science" mag.

/grumpy
//already lost Popular Science and Popular Mechanics
///They better not take Discover and Sci Am too.

Weaver95: That article should have been titled '20 things you never knew about being a shallow, self centered, image obsessed asshat but were afraid to ask'.

Said article is not talking about a little "junk in the trunk", its talking about obesity, which is a serious health issue. Nothing about image.

21. Obese people are like school on Saturday.

1400 calories? That's it, that would be my glob of food for the day. WTF.

Oh, and I'm agreeing with dumpstergirl here.

This article is astonishingly devoid of science for a "science publication"

But is she cute in the face?

on this note, I'm going to go have a cookie.

1,400 calories is like my breakfast.

/not fat
//weightlifting makes you huuuuungry

21. If you start doing more than what you eat... you will lose wait.

If on the other hand you choose to continue to eat more than you do... you're going to keep getting fatter, fatty.

//weightlifting makes you huuuuungry


It does? Usually when I'm done I don't want to eat at all...it's running which makes me hungry on occasion

wait = weight...

Hotttt Pocketttttt

/Jim Gaffigan

(NSFM)

Also: 2. According to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, nearly half the 4,000 people responding to an online survey about obesity said they would give up a year of their life rather than be fat.

Doesn't it work the other way around?

didn't used to be fat when I worked in a manual labor job that was bassically working out 8 hrs a day...

have cushy job where I do nothing physical at work, have gained 100 lbs over the last 3 years....

I think its God's revenge for being hard on fatty's when I wasn't.......

6. In 2004, the Federal Aviation Administration increased its estimate of the weight of the average male from 170 to 184 pounds.

7. Airlines spent $275 million on 350 million additional gallons of fuel in 2000 to compensate for the additional weight of their passengers. Now we know why the peanuts are no longer free!

Mmmmm cellulite shakes

Devanney : 21. If you start doing more than what you eat... you will lose wait.

I can't weight to lose wait.

I blame the PC! god damn internet!!

19. If the entire morbidly obese population of the U.S. lived in one state, it would be the 12th highest-populated state, with more people than Virginia.

Okay, this is scary.

Polyhazard:
Now, I am no supermodel, but I always have to wonder: how the hell does someone let themselves get so fat? I mean, you'd have to actively pursue it to get past a thousand pounds, wouldn't you?

When someone is that obese, you're dealing with more than poor eating habits. There's either depression or a medical problem involved as well. Many morbidly obese eat when they're depressed. Comfort food. They reach a point where they figure they so far gone, it doesn't matter anymore. Once you pass that point and eating becomes your only pleasure, it's only a matter of time.

It's like an alcoholic on a bender, only the alcoholic can pass out and sober up.

Koggie cmon... I fixed it...

played 5 hrs of vball and an hour of field hockey, so I could've prettymuch ate whatever I damn well pleased.

FTFA:

2. According to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, nearly half the 4,000 people responding to an online survey about obesity said they would give up a year of their life rather than be fat.

3. Between 15 percent and 30 percent also said they would rather walk away from their marriage, give up the possibility of having children, be depressed, or become alcoholic rather than be obese.

4. Five percent and 4 percent, respectively, said they would rather lose a limb or be blind than be overweight.

Isnt a healthy diet easier to deal with than giving up a year of your life, the ability to have children, and losing a limb? WTF is wrong with some people?

RocketRod: But is she cute in the face?

She's got a great personality!

RocketRod: But is she cute in the face?

Damn you!! Cue evil flashback!

In college, a sweet, but obese coed complained to me that she always was given the "backhanded compliment" that she was "cute in the face" (she really was), so I said "That's mean, I think you're cute...period" or some such disastrous utterance (just trying to be nice!).

She semi-stalked me for the next two years.

dumpstergirl: 17 shouldn't be an item on the list. Cutesy writing like this I'd expect from Cosmo, but I don't want to see it from my "science" mag.

Agreed.

I still like the Discovery channel, but I think they jumped the shark with shows about hot rodding motorcycles and home improvement.

Want a science mag? OMNI, Journal of [insert specialty here].

/is not obese
//not fat, even
///doesn't care who is...except if they are my friends or family and are putting their health at risk

The only thing worse than fat people are fat people defending their decision to be fat.

Saturn5: Polyhazard:
Now, I am no supermodel, but I always have to wonder: how the hell does someone let themselves get so fat? I mean, you'd have to actively pursue it to get past a thousand pounds, wouldn't you?

When someone is that obese, you're dealing with more than poor eating habits. There's either depression or a medical problem involved as well. Many morbidly obese eat when they're depressed. Comfort food. They reach a point where they figure they so far gone, it doesn't matter anymore. Once you pass that point and eating becomes your only pleasure, it's only a matter of time.

It's like an alcoholic on a bender, only the alcoholic can pass out and sober up.

Also, a lot of medications can adversely affect your metabolism and can lead to excessive weight gain.

I went from 140 lbs to 220 lbs in the course of two years, while not changing my eating habits or activity level due to one medication I was on. I went off it a couple years ago, and I'm still trying to get rid of the weight. I'm down to 200, but want to lose another 20 permanently.

Yeah, it sucks.

I liked that story. It was like news, only without wasting space with useful information.

21: if men lose weight, they can find their penis again

22: fatter women give a better bj, but there is a point where it's just revolting

/not overweight
//20 lbs underweight, actually
///1400 calories is a small snack
////oh, the joys of being an ectomorph

21. It IS possible to lose the weight.

/250 to 160 in a year and a half (6 ft male)
//being 17 at the time probably helped
///back up to 190
////damn

Might have something to say about this! At least you dont have to go in to work?

I don't think anyone chooses to be fat...rather, they consistently choose not to do the things they'd have to do to become thin.

The wankspeak comes because there's so much judgment and social opprobrium (some of it in their minds, some of it in the 'culture' (another way of saying it's in their minds), and some directly leveled upon them by others) attached to the disinterest.

From 1991 to 2000, the average weight of Americans increased by 8.5 pounds.

I'm no statistigrapher, but that's pretty farked up right there.

FTFA: It's a vicious cycle.



I eat because I'm not happy, and I'm not happy because I eat.

The first law of thermodynamics applies even to people with glandular problems.

"4. Five percent and 4 percent, respectively, said they would rather lose a limb or be blind than be overweight."


/I wouldn't go THAT far.

What about that idiot who allowed herself to be crushed by the fat fark next to her on a transatlantic flight? Jeez, show a little backbone and complain rather than trying to squeeze in half a seat.

If anyone's interested, TLC is airing I Eat 33,000 Calories A Day again at 11pm EST. I caught the last 15 minutes of it earlier tonight, and it's really, really sad. Some people are addicted to food like it was crack cocaine.

I've always wondered if more men or more woman are fat.

"I'm not fat! I'm big boned!"

rockforever: Might have something to say about this! At least you dont have to go in to work?

I heard that guy's ass has its own congressman!

Goodbye Moderation!!!

"17. It's a vicious cycle. "

and with that it loses all credibility. The secret to losing wright I found in "Bloom County" in 1985. Eat less. Exercise More.

Its that simple.