CC1, your theory about blue denium whales at Wal-Mart might be in question now.
Sep 9 2008 2:58PM EDT
The Wal-Mart Diet
Now, a new study finds no evidence that the proliferation of Wal-Mart stores, many of which are packed with cheap processed foods, has led to weight gains. In fact, the existence of a big box retailer in an area seems to actually decrease weight slightly.
Charles Courtemanche from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Art Carden of Rhodes College in Tennessee looked at county-level data on big box stores (different versions of Wal-Mart stores as well as Costcos) and survey data which captured residents' demographic information as well as eating, shopping, smoking, drinking, and exercising habits. They found that one additional regular Wal-Mart store (which doesn't sell groceries) was associated with a drop of 0.5 pounds for a person of the average height. An additional Super Wal-Mart, which does sell groceries, was associated with a weight drop of 0.18 pounds.
oh that is funny, hey people buy food everywhere, maybe convenience stores with all the chips and cola they sell are guilty and should be fined for weight loss programs, lol,dt
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Ah, but my theory was never that Wal Mart caused Blue Denim Whales. It was simply that BDW's frequent Wal Marts!!!!!!
The first two years we lived in Nashville we lived in the Madison area and shopped at the Hermiatage Wal Mart. We played a game where we tried to be the first one to spot a woman weighing less than 190 lbs.
Many times there was no winner. LOL!!!! (this is the honest truth and not a joke)
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Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Ah, but my theory was never that Wal Mart caused Blue Denim Whales. It was simply that BDW's frequent Wal Marts!!!!!!
The first two years we lived in Nashville we lived in the Madison area and shopped at the Hermiatage Wal Mart. We played a game where we tried to be the first one to spot a woman weighing less than 190 lbs.
Many times there was no winner. LOL!!!! (this is the honest truth and not a joke)
Walmart is more like fishing at night with a light.
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CC1, your theory about blue denium whales at Wal-Mart might be in question now.
Sep 9 2008 2:58PM EDT
The Wal-Mart Diet
Now, a new study finds no evidence that the proliferation of Wal-Mart stores, many of which are packed with cheap processed foods, has led to weight gains. In fact, the existence of a big box retailer in an area seems to actually decrease weight slightly.
Charles Courtemanche from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Art Carden of Rhodes College in Tennessee looked at county-level data on big box stores (different versions of Wal-Mart stores as well as Costcos) and survey data which captured residents' demographic information as well as eating, shopping, smoking, drinking, and exercising habits. They found that one additional regular Wal-Mart store (which doesn't sell groceries) was associated with a drop of 0.5 pounds for a person of the average height. An additional Super Wal-Mart, which does sell groceries, was associated with a weight drop of 0.18 pounds.
The reason you lose weight when you shop at Walmart is because you have to walk 3 or 4 miles to get to the back of the store for milk. Then heaven forbid if you need dog food cuz that's all the way on the other side of the store from the milk! You get your exercise just shopping at Walmart.
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The reason you lose weight when you shop at Walmart is because you have to walk 3 or 4 miles to get to the back of the store for milk. Then heaven forbid if you need dog food cuz that's all the way on the other side of the store from the milk! You get your exercise just shopping at Walmart.
I actually thought that was going to be the point!
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The reason you lose weight when you shop at Walmart is because you have to walk 3 or 4 miles to get to the back of the store for milk. Then heaven forbid if you need dog food cuz that's all the way on the other side of the store from the milk! You get your exercise just shopping at Walmart.
So far I haven't seen any of these woman you say have lost weight shopping at Wal Mart!
Of course a lot depends on the demogrraphics of the populatoin around the Wal Mart you are speaking of.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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