fat christians

[appdaze]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/ ... p=features

interesting article.

"A 2006 Purdue study found that the fundamental Christians are by far the heaviest of all religious groups led by the Baptists with a 30% obesity rate compared with Jews at 1%, Buddhists and Hindus at 0.7%. "

"Similarly, a 2011 Northwestern University study tracking 3,433 men and women for 18 years found that young adults who attend church or a bible study once a week are 50% more likely to be obese. "

how do your churches stand?

[JohnnyBurrito]

My church is starting the Daniel Fast...it's obviously not related to obesity, but it could help!

[AppGrad1]

Should have read "fat Christians" but you can write it any way you want to.
The auto spell even capitalizes it. It took effort to make it little letters...

Also, no one came to my church to survey.
I'm sure surveys always come out the way the surveyor wants it to. I even took a class/workshop about how to skew results in your favor...

[ASUPATCH]

Testing the word christian on my phone. Didn't auto capitalize for me.

[newtoasu]

Should have read "fat Christians" but you can write it any way you want to.
The auto spell even capitalizes it. It took effort to make it little letters...

Just out of curiosity I went out and started a new thread just to see what it required to not capitalize "fat christians." Nothing. There is no auto correct in the title or even the red squiggly line for a misspelling. The title of a thread takes whatever you type without corrections or suggestions.

BTW, to be technically correct, it should have read "Fat Christians" because it is a title.

[AppGrad1]

Y'all need religious, not pagan phones...

[newtoasu]

Y'all need religious, not pagan phones...

I tried mine on a Toshiba Laptop, not a phone, but you are correct about the pagan, at least I feel that there is a devil inside this thing many times!

[AppGrad1]

Y'all need religious, not pagan phones...

I tried mine on a Toshiba Laptop, not a phone, but you are correct about the pagan, at least I feel that there is a devil inside this thing many times!

Lol. I agree. Satan lives inside my phone too. My phone and 2nd round playoff games are the only things that can make me curse!

[bcoach]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/ ... p=features

interesting article.

"A 2006 Purdue study found that the fundamental Christians are by far the heaviest of all religious groups led by the Baptists with a 30% obesity rate compared with Jews at 1%, Buddhists and Hindus at 0.7%. "

"Similarly, a 2011 Northwestern University study tracking 3,433 men and women for 18 years found that young adults who attend church or a bible study once a week are 50% more likely to be obese. "

how do your churches stand?

I am trying to figure out a reason for this post and this is all I can come up with.
We need to recruit Baptists for O and D lines, Jews for kickers, and Buddhists and Hindus for goal posts.

[appdaze]

Wasn't trying to bash any religion and they are right the titles of threads don't auto correct and I'm a 2012 American so I admit I rely on auto correct more than I should.

I posted it because it is certainly a culture that is within American churches where they indulge in big meals all the time. The church I grew up in had a perfectly good basketball gym that couldn't be used for basketball because the congregation was too wrapped up have meals every week to bother clearing the floor of the tables, chairs and whatnot.

I did have a feeling our resident preacher would jump on this thinking I was bashing.

As far as questioning posting this I put it in the NON APPALACHIAN folder for a reason. This is where this type of thing gets posted. I posted it to hear other peoples opinions...you know....like every single thread ever started on any forum ever in history?????

Obesity is absolutely an American issue so I thought it was worth posting.

[AppGrad1]

Wasn't trying to bash any religion and they are right the titles of threads don't auto correct and I'm a 2012 American so I admit I rely on auto correct more than I should.

I posted it because it is certainly a culture that is within American churches where they indulge in big meals all the time. The church I grew up in had a perfectly good basketball gym that couldn't be used for basketball because the congregation was too wrapped up have meals every week to bother clearing the floor of the tables, chairs and whatnot.

I did have a feeling our resident preacher would jump on this thinking I was bashing.

As far as questioning posting this I put it in the NON APPALACHIAN folder for a reason. This is where this type of thing gets posted. I posted it to hear other peoples opinions...you know....like every single thread ever started on any forum ever in history?????

Obesity is absolutely an American issue so I thought it was worth posting.

All I'm saying is there are an estimated 2.1 billion Christians in the world. Nearly one third the total population. This survey looked at 3400 Christians. That comes to .0000016347 percent of those supposed Christians. I don't think the survey is veryaccurate. Interesting point though.
And thanks for the compliment on the resident pastor...

[MountainMan]

Correlation does not imply causation.

Perhaps more Baptists (fundamental Christians) live in the southern U.S. which is known to have a higher rate of obesity. Perhaps more Buddhists and Hindus live in India and parts of Asia where people are starving. Just throwing out ideas. I don't claim to have analyzed the issue.

[appdaze]

Correlation does not imply causation.

Perhaps more Baptists (fundamental Christians) live in the southern U.S. which is known to have a higher rate of obesity. Perhaps more Buddhists and Hindus live in India and parts of Asia where people are starving. Just throwing out ideas. I don't claim to have analyzed the issue.

This was an american only survey. Obesity has become an american problem that is a fact. The healthcare industry can vouch for that with mounds and mounds of information. This study very well could have some legitimacy to it but I'm not a major fan of the survey study either but, as I said before I was just posting it to see what others thought.

[bcoach]

Correlation does not imply causation.

Perhaps more Baptists (fundamental Christians) live in the southern U.S. which is known to have a higher rate of obesity. Perhaps more Buddhists and Hindus live in India and parts of Asia where people are starving. Just throwing out ideas. I don't claim to have analyzed the issue.

This was an american only survey. Obesity has become an american problem that is a fact. The healthcare industry can vouch for that with mounds and mounds of information. This study very well could have some legitimacy to it but I'm not a major fan of the survey study either but, as I said before I was just posting it to see what others thought.

Well then on a serious note yes it is a very serious problem. We are now seeing teenagers having heart attacks. It is very difficult to get much attention or action in this area. If you want to see just how difficult it is to get anyone to be serious about this problem go see what they are serving in cafeterias in our hospitals. They are creating there own business.

[appdaze]

Well then on a serious note yes it is a very serious problem. We are now seeing teenagers having heart attacks. It is very difficult to get much attention or action in this area. If you want to see just how difficult it is to get anyone to be serious about this problem go see what they are serving in cafeterias in our hospitals. They are creating there own business.

The cafeteria food isn't the problem. That stuff is incredibly controlled. They can't even serve things like fries more than a few times a month. The problem lies with the kids going home and being fed fast food constantly and sitting in front of some sort of technology that doesn't allow them to burn off all the unhealthy things they just ate. Humans are meant to be active. Technology has changed us from a physical species to a mental species and its having horrible effects on our physical side. Gluttony has become the American way so while I don't know how close the articles stats are the point of it all is quite right. I've seen plenty of churches where their main event is the big congregation meal.

[AppGrad1]

Well then on a serious note yes it is a very serious problem. We are now seeing teenagers having heart attacks. It is very difficult to get much attention or action in this area. If you want to see just how difficult it is to get anyone to be serious about this problem go see what they are serving in cafeterias in our hospitals. They are creating there own business.

The cafeteria food isn't the problem. That stuff is incredibly controlled. They can't even serve things like fries more than a few times a month. The problem lies with the kids going home and being fed fast food constantly and sitting in front of some sort of technology that doesn't allow them to burn off all the unhealthy things they just ate. Humans are meant to be active. Technology has changed us from a physical species to a mental species and its having horrible effects on our physical side. Gluttony has become the American way so while I don't know how close the articles stats are the point of it all is quite right. I've seen plenty of churches where their main event is the big congregation meal.

You know, you make a whole lot of sense in your article until you keep going back saying people are getting fat from church fellowship meals. That has got to be the most absurd thing I've ever heard. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion but for some reason you love tying negative things back to the church??
People are getting fat from church fellowships? Give me a break..

[JCline0429]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/ ... p=features

interesting article.

"A 2006 Purdue study found that the fundamental Christians are by far the heaviest of all religious groups led by the Baptists with a 30% obesity rate compared with Jews at 1%, Buddhists and Hindus at 0.7%. "

"Similarly, a 2011 Northwestern University study tracking 3,433 men and women for 18 years found that young adults who attend church or a bible study once a week are 50% more likely to be obese. "

how do your churches stand?

As is quite often asked of me "what is your point?"

[JCline0429]

Well then on a serious note yes it is a very serious problem. We are now seeing teenagers having heart attacks. It is very difficult to get much attention or action in this area. If you want to see just how difficult it is to get anyone to be serious about this problem go see what they are serving in cafeterias in our hospitals. They are creating there own business.

The cafeteria food isn't the problem. That stuff is incredibly controlled. They can't even serve things like fries more than a few times a month. The problem lies with the kids going home and being fed fast food constantly and sitting in front of some sort of technology that doesn't allow them to burn off all the unhealthy things they just ate. Humans are meant to be active. Technology has changed us from a physical species to a mental species and its having horrible effects on our physical side. Gluttony has become the American way so while I don't know how close the articles stats are the point of it all is quite right. I've seen plenty of churches where their main event is the big congregation meal.

You know, you make a whole lot of sense in your article until you keep going back saying people are getting fat from church fellowship meals. That has got to be the most absurd thing I've ever heard. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion but for some reason you love tying negative things back to the church??
People are getting fat from church fellowships? Give me a break..

Do we have a resident agnostic?
FWIW after discussions on the old MMB's Political forum, it is ironic that appdaze used foxnews as a source.

[appdaze]

Well then on a serious note yes it is a very serious problem. We are now seeing teenagers having heart attacks. It is very difficult to get much attention or action in this area. If you want to see just how difficult it is to get anyone to be serious about this problem go see what they are serving in cafeterias in our hospitals. They are creating there own business.

The cafeteria food isn't the problem. That stuff is incredibly controlled. They can't even serve things like fries more than a few times a month. The problem lies with the kids going home and being fed fast food constantly and sitting in front of some sort of technology that doesn't allow them to burn off all the unhealthy things they just ate. Humans are meant to be active. Technology has changed us from a physical species to a mental species and its having horrible effects on our physical side. Gluttony has become the American way so while I don't know how close the articles stats are the point of it all is quite right. I've seen plenty of churches where their main event is the big congregation meal.

You know, you make a whole lot of sense in your article until you keep going back saying people are getting fat from church fellowship meals. That has got to be the most absurd thing I've ever heard. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion but for some reason you love tying negative things back to the church??
People are getting fat from church fellowships? Give me a break..

They bring that up as just a single example. People in general are becoming more glutinous as the writer points out and uses that as an example of one way. There are many other ways in which it is happening.
I was referring more towards obesity in general by posting this and then I asked the simple question of what you guys saw going on in your churches since the writer focuses on that but you can think whatever it is that you want about someone you don't know. You are right we are entitled to our own opinions. Then again you are a good Christian so passing judgement and ignoring other viewpoints is what a good Christian does I suppose. You do know better than the rest of us.

[appdaze]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/ ... p=features

interesting article.

"A 2006 Purdue study found that the fundamental Christians are by far the heaviest of all religious groups led by the Baptists with a 30% obesity rate compared with Jews at 1%, Buddhists and Hindus at 0.7%. "

"Similarly, a 2011 Northwestern University study tracking 3,433 men and women for 18 years found that young adults who attend church or a bible study once a week are 50% more likely to be obese. "

how do your churches stand?

As is quite often asked of me "what is your point?"

My point was to have a little discussion about obesity in this country. I guess that was lost in your ego while attempting to find your brain. I haven't gotten on you for quite some time trying to be nicer to you on here but if you want to become my pony again then by all means here is a carrot. I'm still waiting for you to ever make a point that matters on this or any other board....So what is your point in posting this? To get a rise out of me? Or is it for you to get your own little rise? Is trying to start something on here how you get off these days? Or is this the way you prepare for a good nights sleep? Please crawl back to the stables you came out of and shove another carrot in.

And to your fox news comment. I read some from all the news sources whether I like them as a whole or not so that I am aware of the opinions of both sides not just one. You should try it some time. It may help you one day make a point that matters.