Student Fitness

By: Joe Norton

Here’s a shocker: Fat People Order Fat Food

I often stand in line at the Student Center for long periods… waiting for the disgruntled, minimum wage, sodexo employees to find some time for ‘customer service’ (don’t even get me started with Sodexo)… and during these arduous waits I decide to kill two-birds with one stone and so I people watch. Yes, that’s right, I people watch… all the time. And it just so happens that one of my favorite places to do so is at the student center watching students order food.

You can learn a lot about a person by what they order. Their are a number of inferences you could make about someone based on what they order, but for today’s article I’m going to focus specifically on what you can tell about someones general overall health and body composition.

I could listen to somebody order, without looking at them, and I can tell you roughly what kind of shape that person is in. Sure, their is the unlikely chance that someone is unhealthy/fat and is just starting a diet and thus is ordering healthy but their body is not necessarily representative of that fact. This actually doesn’t happen too often. Usually, when someone orders something dripping with mayonaise and fatty meats - they aren’t doing too good. Usually, when someone orders something fried and grabs a few cookies on their way out - they aren’t doing too good.

I’ll hear someone order grilled chicken with greens and whaddya you know it’s someone in great shape. I’ll hear someone being very picky about what goes on their wrap, specifically asking for no mayonaise and for lots of veggies - no shocker that this person will nearly always be one of the thinner people.

I’ll hear someone order the quarter pounder at BK (yes, we have burger king in our Cafeteria) and ask for a mountain of fries => and I have yet to see that coming from someone with one chin. Now, I do have to disclose this one fact. I do often see some of the athletes (basketball, and football players) come in and grab some BK. This does go against my theory => BUT, it really dosen’t. This person WOULD be fat if they didn’t do so much exercise. This is how you can order poorly and still be healthy/fit. By balancing the equation that is 1 part Diet, and 1 part Physical Activity

You are what you eat. Eat fatty food, be a fatty person. Eat healthy and balanced, and you will be healthy and balanced.

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