About fat people......

[Little Star]

This is just a question. How about all the stuff our government allows to make bigger chickens, beef,pork, etc. (even veggies). If it makes them bigger why would it not make humans fatter also?

[Little Star]

1. Someone please answer.

I'll visit the lounge more often.........
I know none of you know me in here because I'm mostly in GD.
But, I do read the Lounge almost daily.
I think there may be a connection to all those growth hormones, etc. U????

[SteppingRazor]

2. This question's much, much too serious for the Lounge, I'm afraid...

you're far more likely to get fat jokes than a straight answer. That said, I'll certainly grant that you have a point. I mean, it just makes logical sense that fattier foods make for fattier people.

[MissMillie]

4. I don't know about you, but I don't eat chicken feed

:shrug:

[Orrex]

6. I work for chicken feed--does that count?

It certainly doesn't fatten my paycheck any...

[MissMillie]

7. I hear ya

:thumbsup:

[Gormy Cuss]

3. The Lounge has been discussing the causes of obesity in a different thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6490261&mesg_id=6490261
It may help to pose your question there.

[Orrex]

5. It's a question of concentration, really

I can't give you numbers, but if let's say that 100 units of growth hormone are required to plump up that chicken. Of that 100 units, only 1 lingers in the muscle tissue after butchering. Of that 1 unit, only 1% survives the preparation, cooking, and digestion processes, so that the human is only getting 1/100 of one percent of the amount required to fatten the bird. Unless you're eating the equivalent of 10,000 chickens, you won't even reach the threshold necessary to plump up the chicken in the first place. Additionally, there's the matter of accumulation: how much of this ingested, chicken-processed growth hormone lingers in the body, and how much is simply excreted? And according to another measurement (I don't have a source to cite, alas, but I read it within the last year), the amount of growth hormone absorbed through this manner of ingestion is a tiny fraction of the amount already naturally coursing through our veins.

Your question is valid, and there's certainly good reason to investigate it, but there's far too much ill-informed fear-mongering in the mainstream and alternative media about the supposed dangers of growth hormone (and the like).

[Omphaloskepsis]

8. I don't eat the fat on animals...

I'm sure what they give the critters is intended to create muscle mass. Since we eat the muscle.

So that doesn't really explain the fat (if it puts muscle on the animals, wouldn't it do the same for us?). I would say the TV and junk food are what is making people fat. And people drive everywhere.