What do you think of the obesity epidemic in the U.S.?

Meal timing is irrelevant to weight control. Excess caloric intake leads to gains. I typically eat 2000 calories within an hour of going to bed (and yes I've eaten all day as well). I stay within my needs and I achieve my goals.

Thanks for the lesson in nutrition but that's not what this topic is about. This topic is about obesity and why in a general sense Americans are over weight. I agree with you that Meal timing is irrelevant but again that is not what I was getting at. I was getting at, most Americans are full by lunch time on a typical 3 square meals a day as breakfast, lunch, and dinner are still heavily promoted and believed as the normal and proper way to eat.

The rest of us who don't eat too much for breakfast or lunch do fine with dinner. They're eating too much for breakfast and lunch. It still comes down to eating too much, not what name a meal is given or what time it is consumed.

Yes i agree. They are eating too much because breakfast, lunch, and dinner all promoted as eating healthy. All three are promoted, mostly by TV ads and even taught in children's school text books. I remember learning about breakfast, lunch, and dinner my elementary text.

When I am referring to time, I am referring to leangains 8 hour timing window. You may choose any 8 consecutive hours of the day you want. Now as for timing window, I understand what you are saying but meal window timing does add a benefit over spacing your meals out. Take lean gains approach for example. The timing window to eat is 8 consecutive hours a day. It's barely long enough to fit two meals in when compared to the traditional 3 square meals. Following the 8 consecutive hours works because you do not have enough time to let food settle in and eat another big meal when compared to the traditional 3 meals a day approach.

Meal timing is irrelevant to weight control. Excess caloric intake leads to gains. I typically eat 2000 calories within an hour of going to bed (and yes I've eaten all day as well). I stay within my needs and I achieve my goals.

Thanks for the lesson in nutrition but that's not what this topic is about. This topic is about obesity and why in a general sense Americans are over weight. I agree with you that Meal timing is irrelevant but again that is not what I was getting at. I was getting at, most Americans are full by lunch time on a typical 3 square meals a day as breakfast, lunch, and dinner are still heavily promoted and believed as the normal and proper way to eat.

The rest of us who don't eat too much for breakfast or lunch do fine with dinner. They're eating too much for breakfast and lunch. It still comes down to eating too much, not what name a meal is given or what time it is consumed.

Yes i agree. They are eating too much because breakfast, lunch, and dinner all promoted as eating healthy. All three are promoted, mostly by TV ads and even taught in children's school text books. I remember learning about breakfast, lunch, and dinner my elementary text.

When I am referring to time, I am referring to leangains 8 hour timing window. You may choose any 8 consecutive hours of the day you want. Now as for timing window, I understand what you are saying but meal window timing does add a benefit over spacing your meals out. Take lean gains approach for example. The timing window to eat is 8 consecutive hours a day. It's barely long enough to fit two meals in when compared to the traditional 3 square meals. Following the 8 consecutive hours works because you do not have enough time to let food settle in and eat another big meal when compared to the traditional 3 meals a day approach.

I ate a 4000 calorie lunch on Sunday then followed it up, 4 hours later, with 20 oz of chicken breast, 1/2 lb of potato, 1/2 of spinach. An hour after that another 2000 calories of food consisting of a pint of ice cream, corn bread, pop tart & Ben & Jerry's ice cream sandwich.

Your statement is pretty broad. I can easily exceed my caloric goals within an hour windows. My goals are very high to begin with as well, 4,000 daily.

The government created the obesity epidemic. It is no accident that obesity began to rise when the government started telling people what to eat. More carbs, less mess and fat.
I started losing weight when I starting eating more fat and meat and less carbs.

Same. I also don't crave sugar and sweets. The Food Pyramid: the best advice I didn't take

Meal timing is irrelevant to weight control. Excess caloric intake leads to gains. I typically eat 2000 calories within an hour of going to bed (and yes I've eaten all day as well). I stay within my needs and I achieve my goals.

Thanks for the lesson in nutrition but that's not what this topic is about. This topic is about obesity and why in a general sense Americans are over weight. I agree with you that Meal timing is irrelevant but again that is not what I was getting at. I was getting at, most Americans are full by lunch time on a typical 3 square meals a day as breakfast, lunch, and dinner are still heavily promoted and believed as the normal and proper way to eat.

The rest of us who don't eat too much for breakfast or lunch do fine with dinner. They're eating too much for breakfast and lunch. It still comes down to eating too much, not what name a meal is given or what time it is consumed.

Yes i agree. They are eating too much because breakfast, lunch, and dinner all promoted as eating healthy. All three are promoted, mostly by TV ads and even taught in children's school text books. I remember learning about breakfast, lunch, and dinner my elementary text.

When I am referring to time, I am referring to leangains 8 hour timing window. You may choose any 8 consecutive hours of the day you want. Now as for timing window, I understand what you are saying but meal window timing does add a benefit over spacing your meals out. Take lean gains approach for example. The timing window to eat is 8 consecutive hours a day. It's barely long enough to fit two meals in when compared to the traditional 3 square meals. Following the 8 consecutive hours works because you do not have enough time to let food settle in and eat another big meal when compared to the traditional 3 meals a day approach.

I ate a 4000 calorie lunch on Sunday then followed it up, 4 hours later, with 20 oz of chicken breast, 1/2 lb of potato, 1/2 of spinach. An hour after that another 2000 calories of food consisting of a pint of ice cream, corn bread, pop tart & Ben & Jerry's ice cream sandwich.

Your statement is pretty broad. I can easily exceed my caloric goals within an hour windows. My goals are very high to begin with as well, 4,000 daily.

Well, I hope you never have to quit working out, for some reason. Packing it in like that, in the absence of working out, would get you very quickly to packing it on (fat, I mean).

Meal timing is irrelevant to weight control. Excess caloric intake leads to gains. I typically eat 2000 calories within an hour of going to bed (and yes I've eaten all day as well). I stay within my needs and I achieve my goals.

Thanks for the lesson in nutrition but that's not what this topic is about. This topic is about obesity and why in a general sense Americans are over weight. I agree with you that Meal timing is irrelevant but again that is not what I was getting at. I was getting at, most Americans are full by lunch time on a typical 3 square meals a day as breakfast, lunch, and dinner are still heavily promoted and believed as the normal and proper way to eat.

The rest of us who don't eat too much for breakfast or lunch do fine with dinner. They're eating too much for breakfast and lunch. It still comes down to eating too much, not what name a meal is given or what time it is consumed.

Yes i agree. They are eating too much because breakfast, lunch, and dinner all promoted as eating healthy. All three are promoted, mostly by TV ads and even taught in children's school text books. I remember learning about breakfast, lunch, and dinner my elementary text.

When I am referring to time, I am referring to leangains 8 hour timing window. You may choose any 8 consecutive hours of the day you want. Now as for timing window, I understand what you are saying but meal window timing does add a benefit over spacing your meals out. Take lean gains approach for example. The timing window to eat is 8 consecutive hours a day. It's barely long enough to fit two meals in when compared to the traditional 3 square meals. Following the 8 consecutive hours works because you do not have enough time to let food settle in and eat another big meal when compared to the traditional 3 meals a day approach.

I ate a 4000 calorie lunch on Sunday then followed it up, 4 hours later, with 20 oz of chicken breast, 1/2 lb of potato, 1/2 of spinach. An hour after that another 2000 calories of food consisting of a pint of ice cream, corn bread, pop tart & Ben & Jerry's ice cream sandwich.

Your statement is pretty broad. I can easily exceed my caloric goals within an hour windows. My goals are very high to begin with as well, 4,000 daily.

Well, I hope you never have to quit working out, for some reason. Packing it in like that, in the absence of working out, would get you very quickly to packing it on (fat, I mean).

Simple math equation. I eat to meet my current goals, whatever I decide they are. Gain/lose/maintain.

Americans are overwhelmingly so so SO fat. I see people who I wonder HOW can they be fat, due to their jobs, like police officers, nurses/doctors, gym teachers, mail carriers. If you work in health care you KNOW the effects of obesity, and if you have a very active job (like gym teacher) what is going on? Do they stuff themselves after school, or what?

I really feel pity for obese children. It's not their fault as they have no control over what they eat and by the time they understand what's been done to them so much damage has been done.

I do think now that the government is involved in healthcare there is going to be a drastic shift in how obesity is perceived. I predict that within a decade people are going to have to pay extra for things for being obese, in the same way smokers are. For example, take life insurance. Want life insurance? You can get it, but if you smoke you pay extra. Soon it's going to be the same for obesity.

The statement is broad because it is in reference to the topic at hand, the reason why most Americns are obese, and not your individual calorie intake. Troll on.

You miss the point entirely, not surprising. I eat within my caloric limits (as pertaining to my goals). It has nothing to do with promoting an eating style, which seems to be your agenda. You try to vilify the traditional western eating habits of three meals a day. When simple education on caloric needs would do just fine. People would then be able to continue on with their meal traditions. That is what they are now, the family dinner has become a bonding experience for many families. A common time to come together and discuss the day that has gone by, not that I practice this myself, but that is what it has become so I accept it as reality.

I think there is more going on with food when you survey pets and it is telling.
I say this from experience with a cat I had that developed diabetes in the
nineties. The vet at the time was only treating one other cat for this. When
we would buy syringes at the pharmacy, they were floored it was for
a cat!

Hardly anyone I knew or met knew of a cat with late onset diabetes
then... and now they run pet food commercials about it today! Many people have diabetic
pets now. Sure, some people over feed their animals but this cannot
account for every case.

What's in the pet food - has it changed over the years, too? What's
going on?

Yes, the USA does have our weight issues...It speaks volumes that our First Lady, Michelle Obama, has made this her national cause! Our school systems have cancelled required physical. Education and most have cancelled former required Home Economic classes. Basically we are still going backwards on this issue. Our media does not help by comparing too thin airbrushed models with being the norm. The children are defeated before they start....It's not just poor people either. I live in a fairly well educated, financially successful area of the US and you see more overweight, obese people than normal weight much less thin people. In fact, I am in the overweight class and yet am considered thin by my neighbors and sometimes even my doctors. I am a home health RN and the vast majority of my patients are overweight and struggling with diseases that are caused by poor heart, bad joints, breathing problems. This problem is feeding into our overwhelming health care crisis and our ability to financially care for our older Americans. As a golden Buckeye card holder and a silver sneaker member (fancy way to say over 60 years),it bothers me that a lot of my patients have diseases that they should not have or not be this advanced for at least a decade.....it is why I started on this site. Time is not on my side if I don't stay on my path to weight loss and better health!!!!

I think alot of it is that people are so busy now that they eat out more. Or else they eat cheap cuz food is expensive and buy alot of boxed foods and things higher in sodium and higher calories to save money. And alot of stuff in schools prob are loaded with preservatives cuz they come in bulk and that prob is part of it. And the new thing for kids is gaming systems and i pods and such so they spend less time in activities that gets them outside and moving around instead they spend more time in front of a computer or a screen. They should make healthy foods cheaper for people that would help alot. Would be a good thing if they put the actual nutrition info along side all the restaurant foods also and if they offered healthier drink options other than soda at fast food places.

What I would like to know is if people are eating more calories and being sedentary because they are unwell and feeling sluggish? Or are they unwell because they are eating too much and exercising too little? And, if so, why is this just a recent phenomenon? And even our pets are obese? I wish they would make serious epidemiological studies on this.

People eat more and move less because society doesn't demand them to do more. When left to our own devices many will self-destruct. It this point the "epidemic" is so advanced that most people don't even know how to start to change. It is really quite sad.

After reading a few pages of this topic, I have just suddenly felt so lucky to have CHOICES. Choices in what i eat, what to teach my children, how to raise my children, and what to feed them. I am fairly young, just starting out. I do not plan to have children until "i can afford to put them in any sports team they would want" (haha that is my "sign" i can afford children).

But though it is sad to see others fall, I have always been one to think "Survival of the Fittest"...and that is all it is. Some care, some don't - those that CHOOSE not to change, don't survive as long as those who do.

But though it is sad to see others fall, I have always been one to think "Survival of the Fittest"...and that is all it is. Some care, some don't - those that CHOOSE not to change, don't survive as long as those who do.

Allele frequencies are not altered by longevity.

I blame the Food Pyramid .

that's actually a huge part of it. misinformation is a killer. people have been force fed that they were supposed to eat 11 servings of pasta and white flour A DAY!

couple that with the computer age and people sitting on their *kitten* all day and you get a helluva lot of fat people.