Scientists study on couch potatoes

The amazing thing is that some scientist actually makes a living performing studies like that.

I wonder how much money was spent on determining that some people are lazy by nature and others are not. No matter how fat or slim they are. What a concept.

Ya think?

2 million

"Dr Levine said his group got $2 million in US National Institutes of Health funding for the study, which began after his group discovered in 1999 what they call non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT, underlies the difference between people who can get away with snacking and those who cannot."

GIve these people a break, please!

Most of us are mutants. We are in the far minority who actually go out and exercise, let alone TRAIN for some type of endurance event. You may not be impressed by all the media attention the "obesity epidemic" has gotten, but believe me, I see obese, sick & dying people every single day and it's no joke what it does to you. It is sad and pathetic. Any small amount of encouragement or support that these people can get is for the best for ALL of us (taxpayers pay for medicare which pays for doctors visits, medications, walkers, bedside commodes, surguries, etc, etc that are all directly tied to obesity). Most of these people have given up hope and lack the capacity to view themselves as anything but lazy, fat and sick. THe amount of money given for research by the NIH is nothing compared to the amount of money that gets spent daily in my hospital alone.

These is real research, and critical to the overall health of the majority of US citizens. Get a life and go out for a run. Sheesh.

Wow!!! I had never thought of myself as a "mutant" for training. I'm going to have to think about that one for a while........


Dennis