Eating healthy and exercising, is the key to living to 100? Really now?

[loveisbeautiful]

I answered a question by a girl who said
"she can't stand fat people". Reading the
answers, I notice some people agree with her.
I see a lot of weight questions on here and
I realized something, people like to assume
a persons over weight because they're lazy
and eat a lot. But, could care a less to get to
know the really reason why the person
is overweight. I think people like making
snap judgements about people, without
really knowing anything about them or
there life. I truly believe people like being mean.

I guess people don't realize that no one
chooses to be over weight. It's not like
a person wakes up one day decides "today's
the day I get fat and eat as much as I can.
All while having my self esteem be non existent.
subjecting myself to rude comments and
rejection. And, potentally being at risk for
health problems. Let's start that plan today"
It's not a choice, it just happens. And, some
people that over eat do it because there depressed
or something tramatic happen to them and they're
trying to cover up the pain with comfort food.
Plus, say a person does want to lose weight.
Do you know how hard that is? You can't just
have the weight loss fairy to come and make
it better, it takes tons of work. And, even then
there's no promises. So, people need remember
that the next time they just want to deem someone
"lazy" because of there weight!

Now, I realize people think that eating right
and exercising will guarantee you a long
life. Well, if that's the case. Then tell me, why
did one of my mom's co-workers who ate
right. exercised daily. went to the doctor
regularly. Why did he then drop dead of
a heart attack while running on the beach?
I mean, if being healthy is the end all be all.
Why do even healthy people, get sick?

I'm awfully curious how you're all going to
spin this answer so please, tell me?

[shacodraco]

I don't really care about living to 100, shit happens and even the healthiest person can die at any time because of an accident/disease/whatever. I'm just not attracted to overweight people because it doesn't turn me off. I don't really care why someone is overweight it won't change my attraction level. Personally I would never let myself become overweight because I like being in shape.

You just have to control your hunger urges and work out before you become obese. I know once you become obese it's hard to lose weight and you don't have motivation so that's why you should not let it come to that point. For a lot of people their parents are to blame because they let their kids eat as much as they wanted so they grew up fat.

[ilovchipmunk]

I believe there are two entirely different "healthy" are referring by your way and mine. let's talk about yours first. your "healthy" is the media the newspaper the public the everything told you that's the golden theory in order to get "healthy", and that's also not quite true. Why? let's move to my thought. Everyone is this world is different, born in different way, different race, different environment, drink different water, breathe different air, the parameters of basic body are exactly not similar, so wouldn't be a little strange to punch the goal by using only one rule on every human? balance is everything, some jackasses just trust those "expert" over what the body telling them, what can i say.

[loveisbeautiful]

Um, I'm confused. How do you know what my definition of healthy is?
Just out of curiousity.

[ilovchipmunk]

true, idon't know. because there isn't one. No one is really that by meaningful "healthy", grab up a bunch of random people anywhere, do a full physical examination to them, definitely will find out plenty of problems on their bodies just they aren't in any medical field and they havn't had a good doctors, they think they're RELATIVELY "healthy". so due to any medical resource they're able to reach, it's not quite hard to understand the difference of The sloppy doctor told you you're in "healthy " line and Your body's biological system really that smoothing. We have no clue about what's wrong with inside our bodies then we trust the doctor, the exam ot judge the physical status, truth is there are crisises , fuse running within and no one (including your doctor, and on the account of present scientific level) gonna find out what is it. maybe a small knot could trigger the crash. body is such brittle.

[kangy]

I don't bother about living to 100 , in fact i don't want to..
i prefer to have a healthy mind and body , when death comes it would, to me keeping myself healthy is just being happy.
as for people who are overweight, i find it rude and mean to laugh at them , whoever do so are just mean people. but they can choose to workhard and lose weight, we saw this happened to people around us i believe. if a person doesn't want to put in effort to lose weight then it is his choice or her, but dont blame on media or others.

[loveisbeautiful]

But, that's the thing. 1) It's not that easy to lose weight. 2) No one chooses to gain
weight and that's what people fail to comprehend.

[kangy]

they can watch their diet. before they snack on ice cream, tidbits etc shouldn't they think before they plunge into it. they chooses this diet of their own so they can't blame people. yes it isn't easy to lose weight but it isn't impossible, it takes a lot of determination and perservance.
it is still their choice. i find it funny when people keep saying they dont have a choice when they actually do

[Lolomon]

I can tell you their are many underlying internal reasons why people are overweight. And a lot of doctors have a prejudice towards fat people as well, but modern science is catching up to what ancient medicine has known, and a lot of people in the future won't have to be overweight, plus everyone's body is just different no two bodies are created equal

[molan]

"It's not a choice, it just happens"

No, you eat by choice, it didn't just happen. You are trying to talk about the causes of eating-disorders and that is fair, but don't pull shits like it just happens.

A drug addicts don't want the sides effect either, but they do choose to take drugs, it's not just happened.

[loveisbeautiful]

People take things on here too literally. What I mean is, say a girl gets raped
and she doesn't know how to handle it and she has no one to talk to, so she
turns to food. She turns to it for comfort and to feel something for 5 mintues
other then pain. That's what I mean when I say "it just happens". No one wants
to over eat or subject themselves to peoples cruel words. But, food can be comforting
in times of pain and anything else your feeling. So, maybe they choose to eat it.
But, they're not doing with hopes of becoming 500 lbs and having people treat them
like crap.

Also, same thing with drug addicts. Nobody wants to be drug addict or alcoholic,
but when you mix that stuff with depression and pain it becomes addictive. So, again
they choose to try it but they sure as hell don't want all the misery that comes with addiction
and that is what people need to realize.

[molan]

I think everyone realises it already, I have never heard anyone say otherwise.

[AdamThomas]

Healthy people get sick, but they get sick much less than unhealthy people. But then I don't understand people who want to live to 100 or longer, to the point where they can't wipe their own arses anymore. I'd rather die younger and enjoy life.

[Klaatu51]

i'm 101 yo i smoke around 50 cigarettes per day and i'm still alive... WTF?

[loveisbeautiful]

Haha, funny :P

[Klaatu51]

sorry my great-grandpa posted from my account

[loveisbeautiful]

Haha, am I suppose to believe that?

[Klaatu51]

if you want why not? LOL

[loveisbeautiful]

Haha, okay.

[Likes2drive]

Yeah I heard of that happening too, I think some people push them selves more than their body can handle , we are all different genetically so some people can do what ever to there bodies and some can't