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  1. Whats everyone's favorite explanation of the obesity epidemic in america?

    I'm a big fan of the lowered cost of food due to industrialized production, ie GMO/Monsanto style large scale, high yield production of a few staple crops (corn, soy, proteins). I'm a time scale of 100 years, not the last decade. Source: http://mjperry.blogs...ave-fallen.html

    There may have been a time where mass produced food as we see it today was economically nonviable. The cost of labor and food prices made it so. Raising chickens and a vegetable garden may have historically been the cheapest options, in addition to the healthiest (if 'healthiest' even has meaning in the 1800's). Today, running a garden or chicken coop is a sign that you have the leisure time and space (ie wealth) to do so.

    Ok, so now that people can afford to eat themselves into the grave, why do they? I believe the answer to why lies in an emergent property of cheap food combined with capitalism. My favorite explanation is by David Kessler - so called hyperpalatable foods. it has been shown that there is a optimum combination of sugar, fat and salt which creates the most pleasure. This is why foods at large successful chains are distinctly "restaurant-y". All dishes undergo a development cycle where they are tweaked to pack the most palatable punch - every facet of a snickers bar (peanut size, moisture content, salt level, viscosity of caramel, etc) is tightly controlled, tested and optimized to the most delicious point possible. HFCS is not the culprit, only the cheapest means to the optimum sugar/fat/salt ratio.

    http://www.amazon.co...n/dp/1605297852

    There you have it. cheap, hyperpalatable food.

    I agree with this. Also it's not like fast food/junk is cheaper than preparing meals yourself... it's just easily accessible and convenient for most.

    On another note

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  2. ENFP

    • slightly expressed extravert
    • moderately expressed intuitive personality
    • distinctively expressed feeling personality
    • moderately expressed perceiving personality

    Other ENFPs:

    Fidel Castro

    Muammar Gadaffi

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    Jerry Seinfeld

  3. To the person who wanted to get more pull ups in. Odd how no one suggested this but train your forearm and wrist (part of training forearms) if you are not already? Pull ups aren't all lats. Don't just dangle there imagining your lats flexing or something lol get a barbell behind your back and do some wrist curls, do some reverse grip barbell curls and hammer curls and you only need to dedicate <10mins to this once or twice a week.

    My forearm training pretty much consists of regular deadlifts and RDLs. I just mentioned the lats part cause I pretty much only used my arms when I started out. But I'll try that and see how much my pullups/chins improve. I'm trying to do kipping pullups more often for conditioning for when I don't have time to do hill sprints, sometimes I have trouble keeping the momentum going

  4. found my late grandfather's collection of watches from the 50's (and probably older). these were pretty much in storage for 50+ years up until last week. i know next to nothing about watches aside from what gets discussed here but i thought i would make a contribution to the thread. sorry for the crap pics

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  5. I was doing my laundry when the washer started leaking. And now there's water in the basement. Clearly it picked just the right time cause now I'm running out of clean underwear

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