LOL-LBN -- Can religion be a feast too bountiful? (Baptists are fatter

[wakeme2008]

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=111464&ran=249720


Can religion be a feast too bountiful?
Associated Press (ASAP)
© September 24, 2006
Last updated: 5:29 PM

Too many carbs in communion wafers? Too much fat in your faith?

A recent study found that some churches and church-related activities are a ''feeding ground'' for America's obesity problem.

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Ferraro found that obesity was more prevalent in some denominations -- particularly Baptists and fundamentalist Protestants

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Religious leaders tended to call cigarette smoking or the consumption of drugs and alcohol sinful, but didn't attach the same label to overeating, Ferraro found. Instead, they have church potlucks and doughnuts after services

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[rzemanfl]

1. And these fatasses are going to be raptured NAKED? n/t

[Gman]

2. God does have a sense of humor

and uses it often.

[rzemanfl]

4. If the is a God he/she/it probably has a zoo, and that's where

these folks will go.

[wakeme2008]

3. Yes with a Krispy Kream in their hands

:rofl:

[rzemanfl]

6. Walking around with my dick hanging out in front of a mob of

fat naked women is my idea of what hell might be like, not heaven.

[ClintonTyree]

5. Gluttony........

one of the "seven deadlies", although not in the christians' bible so they can merrily eat themselves toward heaven. It's going to be awfully hard on jesus' "tractor beam" though when he tries to haul their lard asses up to heaven for the rapture. :eyes: Pigs, all. And in so many ways.

[Teaser]

7. I enjoyed the wiccan weight loss spell myself.

What good is a spell if you don't shed the blood of a chicken or a goat over it?


Give me afro-carribean religion anyday.

[Nikki Stone 1]

12. Does it work?

:)

[REP]

8. Wait - Do I Hate Them For Their Religion or Their Looks?

Jesus wept;

[Nikia]

9. Potlucks, breakfasts, lunches, snacks are tradition

Sharing food has been a community ritual in most cultures, including mainstream America. Churches have always done this to help create and maintain community. Until fairly recently, obesity was not really considered a societal problem although there have been obese Americans for many generations.
I don't think that religion should really get involved as far as making eating a sin. We don't need church sanctioned holy anorexics. I don't have a problem with church sponsored groups for eating disorders, including compulsive overeating, though provided that they have a medically knowledgeable leader.

[Gman]

10. I don't feel it is related to overeating

as much as it is the food being eaten. Trans fat, high fructose corn syrup and other corporate inventions that have changed basic food to the degree that there is a tremendous amount of energy in the food that the body cannot use and instead is stored in fat.

I don't feel so many people are overeating. Ijust cannot see that there are just so many people that overeat. But I everywhere I look I see morbidly obee people, especially where I live here in South Texas where people are predominantly Catholic. That many people don't just overeat. Something else is going on.

[Teaser]

11. debatable

Trans fat, high fructose corn syrup and other corporate inventions that have changed basic food to the degree that there is a tremendous amount of energy in the food that the body cannot use and instead is stored in fat.

This is not a settled issue. I know at least one nutrition research at my place of employ, Drexel University, rejects it utterly.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. Baptists LOVE those free Sunday feeds

I was raised Baptist- I've stuffed myself more than a few times at those potluck feasts. Them's good eatins!