Originally Posted by
Brontide
While what we eat is important I think it's less important than the absolute lack of physical exercise. If people got anywhere near the appropriate amount of exercise it would matter a lot less what they ate. Poor diet does compound the lack of exercise.
I'm in the process of working off 15 years of weight and I'm still "overweight" by 10 pounds or so. Most of the people that I see in wally world are clearly obese by BMI standards if I'm still classified as overweight.
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Well - as was being discussed on this thread, due to the diets most Americans have, unless families begin to cycle, run, x-country ski for long stretches of time during the weekends, no amount of physical activity is going off-set the calories these people consume. Diet is the most important part of weight loss, and most of these people, even if they begin to walk or ride, chances are, the exertion would not be sufficient to off-set the caloric intake.