Joetheeskimo Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Man, and I thought I ate too much junk food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-64 Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Modern junk food is responsible for 90% of kids behaviour and learnign difficulties, and apparently for a lot of mental illness as well... but its damn hard to avoid. Hey, Banjamin Franklin was a fat guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Hey, Banjamin Franklin was a fat guy. I think his weight was "beer" related though.. and well, Beer is a major food group isn't it? hehehe.. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 *insert extremely long post here* Hehe, I didn't expect you to go through all that trouble, but hey, I'm just making sure you have facts to support what you said, because multiple people have said that but have never had the facts to back it up. Cheers Also, I'm glad you took that as well as you did, because looking back, I sounded like an asshole, and I didn't mean to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 I will admit that i made up 74.3% of the statistics in my previous post on the spot! But i reckon 90% is pretty accurate... Beer on the other hand has no drawbacks whatsoever! (statistically proven. honest!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Beer on the other hand has no drawbacks whatsoever! Not always true, sometimes beer can cause you to bleed from the head. Usually when you get drunk and a guy smashes your bottle over your head for chatting up "his woman". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Speakin out of first hand experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reclaimer Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Damn...sucks to be him. Feel sorry for the family, but couldn't they do something more other than telling him to stop eating? Like locking up the junk food. I think it's partially the parents fault for letting this happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuu Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I think his weight was "beer" related though.. and well, Beer is a major food group isn't it? It was for a long time since clean water was hard to come by. Alot of times it was better to drink beer just because it was more sterile then the local watering hole. GOD WANTS US TO LIVE, SO HE GAVE US BEER! Fuu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Damn...sucks to be him. Feel sorry for the family, but couldn't they do something more other than telling him to stop eating? Like locking up the junk food. I think it's partially the parents fault for letting this happen. He was 20. I highly doubt "locking up the junk food" would really stop him from buying some for himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Actually, to be fair, nothing in his diet, except for maybe the French Fries, could really be classified "junk food." Beans are actually good for you, and white bread and butter, while perhaps not as good for you as a whole-grain alternative, is also OK, if taken in moderation. That's the key, I think: If you take anything to the extreme it can make you sick. The fact that he never ate ANY fruits or vegatables is actually more telling than the things he did eat. Someone else could eat those very same things at every meal and live to be 100,.. as long as they also ate some other things as well: Some protien; some green leafies; a little fruit; and you could be a very healthy, if a bit gassy, person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good Sir Knight Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Only in America... or was this in the UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Yeah, I had junk food when I was a little kid too, and my parents always tried to stop me? Point is it's not completely the parent's fault; they should have tried harder yes, but the kid shouldn't have been so ridiculously stupid. <-- Special K challenge to get back my abs for running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Only in America... or was this in the UK? I believe in the UK... If it were in the U.S... someone would be blaming someone else for it and try to sue them, or the nearest fast food chain they could find hehehe.. (and yes, I live in the U.S.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Beans are actually good for you Unless they were the junky ones sauced with deep molasses and syrups of all kinds. Basing his food choices upon evidenced ones, I'm going to assume those are the kinds of beans he ate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
•-BLaCKouT-• Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Nah, the beans in question were another brand of these; http://www.heinz.com.au/html/products/products.asp?ID=74&categoryID=1 Again, not epecially unhealthy if eaten in moderation. And yeah, it was in the UK, up in Sunderland. Going with the general concensus on this, I'd blame him and his parents equally. I find it hard to feel any sympathy for him, although I do for his family. From the way the article was worded (heard it on the Radio news as well), I got the impression he was living at home with his parents. Especially as he ended up in a wheelchair, to 'tired' to move. So with regard to locking up the junk food, yes they were perfectly capable of doing it. Harsh as it sounds, when he started protesting and refusing to eat sensibly, they could point out that's why the ****er was in a wheelchair to start with And as for refusing a life-saving operation... Building up a mental picture of a young man who can literally eat himself to death with crap, and is presumably therefore pandered to in doing this; I'm picturing... Let this be a lesson to all of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 I'm picturing... heh heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 also about the beer - cup of wine or light alcoholic beverage (dunno bout beer) a day is good for you. (not meaning getting ****faced drunk )Some of these beverages contain cancer fighting ingredients. Also some good antioxidants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 I was kinda kidding about beer having no drawbacks... you should try wandering around the streets of my town at 1am on a saturday without getting punched to see a few of them... though when i went for my company annual health check the only recommendation i got was "drink more alchohol". If i remembner rightly, 7 or 8 units a week is optimal, and once you get over around 18 units or so then the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. My problem is that if i drink 8 units of beer a week then I will pork out like crazy unless i start doing more exercise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reclaimer Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 He was 20. I highly doubt "locking up the junk food" would really stop him from buying some for himself. They could've stopped it at a younger age is what I'm trying to say. I understand what you mean, but the guy wouldn't have been at this point unless he had eaten like hell over a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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