2006 Story Set
| Date: June 27, 2006 They looked at more than 100 studies on potential contributors to obesity besides diet and exercise, and concluded there was at least some support for these 10: (We can all rest easy now - they have proven we are not making it up) 1. Inadequate sleep. (Average sleep amounts have fallen, and many studies tie sleep deprivation to weight gain.) Because if you are still staggering around at 2AM, chances are you are shoving something into your mouth. Wine to let you sleep, like "shut your hip up!", has calories. Getting up early leads to fancy Starbuck's coffee things. Who can resist that blueberry muffin? 2. Endocrine disruptors, which are substances in some foods that may alter fats in the body. Sugar is one. Salt. White stuff. I have lots of these. Basically, I should just stop eating. 3. Nice temperatures. (Air conditioning and heating limit calories burned from sweating and shivering.) Cold will make you want to eat more and eat hearty (like beef stew or a steak). Heat will force you to salads (and cold cuts), not to mention Haagen Daaz.. Comfortable - you will do what you want. 4. Fewer people smoking. (Less appetite suppression.) I'd like to find an appetite-suppression thingy. I'd even take up smoking. I know I will never allow them to give me Chemo. 5. Medicines that cause weight gain. HRT for one. Progesterone accounts for an AVERAGE of 9 lbs monthly swing. OF course, I'd like to keep my bones. 6. Population changes. (More middle-agers and Hispanics, who have higher obesity rates.) Oh thanks a lot! Middle-Aged. I am not ready for that! I don't care if I am 64! It's the New 40! 7. Older birth moms. (That correlates with heavier children). Now, now. I was 40 - but I got back down to 132 at one point. 8. Genetic influences during pregnancy. Morning sickness that ran all day and forced dry crackers into your mouth to keep from puking all over your desk. Not to mention the craving for milkshakes (MacDonald's.) He came out and was a big milk drinker. Breast-fed for 6 months too. Like that would help the weight-loss. 9. Darwinian natural selection. (Fat people out-survive skinny ones). My family goes back a long ways. We all have the gut. My brothers and I. Strong farmer types. Yea-vol. 10. Assortative mating, or "like mating with like. Translation: fat people procreating with others of the same body type, gradually skewing the population toward the heavy end. Well, that won't fly. I live alone. My husbands were skinny. I need a big cuddly husky man in my life. Oh, wait. I used to have one. There's a reason for ya! |
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