There's some good evidence that we also absorb them at different rates. Something I read recently shed light on two instances:
uts easy to cure obesity, just have a famine and a petrol shortage. or move to sub Saharan Africa and live on 5 dollars a day, that will sort it out, or just live on that much where you are now
You're close, but off by a bit. In wealthy countries - especially the US - the cheapest foods are more processes, generally higher in fat and salt. So obesity in the US is generally higher among those in the lower income brackets, because they have trouble affording the more healthful foods. Obviously, that's not accurate in all cases, but in some areas it's almost impossible to get good food. They're referred to as "food deserts", where there's maybe a couple of convenience stores (not selling fresh produce or much of healthy food at all) within reach.
we've had this discussion before, the people in food deserts will get fit walking to the supper market to buy fresh food, , and as a general rule the more nutritious a foood the cheaper it is to buy, but the longer the preparation .
The US is the exception to the “the healthier it is, the cheaper to buy” rule. I remember seeing a video that said this (and many other things) in my sports nutrition class in grad school a while back. In practically every country, a meal made from scratch is far cheaper than a processed and boxed up meal; in the US, crappy frozen food isle stuff is cheaper.
Yeah, again, that assumes it's both safe and feasible to walk to fresh food. Sometimes, it's more than 10 miles. While that's walkable, the time needed isn't reasonable for someone who is probably already working two jobs. You seem to not get the distances that can exist in the US without reasonable public transport. And then there's the safety issue. Walking late in some food deserts is a pretty bad idea.
If I get the job I'm currently trying for, I'll probably get close to what I was making almost 20 years ago.
If I get the one I’m going for (and have a great chance as my prospective boss and interviewer is a good friend), I’ll be about even with my 2009 salary after a year (the job has defined pay grade steps). Somehow the recession ended a few years ago. Sure. Because the cost of living hasn’t gone up in the 12 years in between those. That’ll hopefully be a $12k raise from my current job.
May I ask what kind of work you will be doing? Just curious.
This has been a good year of training. My fitness has improved and I am going into this summer in better shape than I have been in 10 years, which is a good thing. Well, I know there are areas where I need to do better, like sugar, simple carbs, and lunches out. I am hopeful that making these changes, along with the natural increase in physical activity that happens every summer will help with the weight loss. But I have lost and gained weight enough times to know obesity is a long term problem that never really goes away. You just get better control of it at times, and at other times, it gets control of you. I lost a lot of weight in high school and kept it off until I went off to college, when I gained a lot of weight. More recently, I lost a lot of weight 15 years ago and kept it off for 5 years, then gained a lot of it back after I had an injury that kept me away from the gym for a few months. For the last 10 years, weight loss and gain has been a bit seasonal, losing a bit of weight in the summer months, gaining it back in the winter. Part of my coming back to martial arts was to get back to the notion of staying in shape year round.
I'm hoping to be working as an implementation consultant for a bank-oriented tech firm, on a loan origination platform. It's a half-technical job.
Had I actually done that, I'm not sure it would have changed much. I had mono my last semester in college (after about 6 years) and had to drop two classes I needed to graduate: macroeconomics and psych senior seminar. I did all the work for both, but missed too many classes to be able to do the final exam (in econ) or participate in the final discussion (in senior seminar). But my degree would have been in General Psychology, which wouldn't help much for the kinds of jobs I've tended to prefer. I am always leaning on my psych background, and continue to learn more there. Frankly, if I'd had the time and money over the last 10 years, I'd have finished that degree and gone on to do a masters, mostly because I always wanted to. I did go back and start working on a business degree about 10 years ago with an online college, but the cost was too high and the quality of classes too low (nearly all the content was discussion among the students, most of whom didn't appear to have even read the text...just reading the text was by far the most useful part of the class).
I haven't seen enough solid evidence on this to fully satisfy me, but what I have seen tends to agree. We now know that genetics is more than whether you have a given gene - they can be "activated" (my term, maybe not the correct technical term) and "deactivated" during our lives. It seems there's probably some of this going on with childhood obesity. And artificial sweeteners are probably making the problem worse.
I different circles of course, it sounds similar to the program directors I often deal with. They launch new products and product changes.
In this case, it's helping a new bank client implement the new system. There's some project management, some back-end configuration, and some client training.
