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Post by merkavah12 on Mar 24, 2011 13:26:29 GMT
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jonkon
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Post by jonkon on Mar 24, 2011 14:43:05 GMT
It is probably all of those fellowship meals AFTER the service.
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Post by matt on Mar 24, 2011 19:48:45 GMT
I can't help but notice that nowadays there are tons of sporting events that occur Sunday mornings as well as 5ks and marathons. Maybe Christians should have congregational dance worship to make up for their members missing out on that stuff.
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Post by merkavah12 on Mar 24, 2011 20:18:05 GMT
I can't help but notice that nowadays there are tons of sporting events that occur Sunday mornings as well as 5ks and marathons. Maybe Christians should have congregational dance worship to make up for their members missing out on that stuff. The church I go to regularly offers dance classes, soccer and basketball games, and the like. I know many other churches who do the same. So perhaps the problem is something more to do with the individual? |
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Post by noons on Mar 24, 2011 20:18:47 GMT
The most religious region in the US is the southeast, also known as the Bible Belt. That same region also has the highest rates of obesity and diabetes. The cause has normally been traced to the regional diet, as fried food is much more popular there than anywhere else in the country.
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Post by sandwiches on Mar 24, 2011 21:05:12 GMT
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2011/mar/24/religion-sidelights-obesity-churchgoingSidelights: piety linked with obesity
Why are church-going Americans more likely to be fat than atheists? And other questions from around the web
The thing I want to pick up on is the use here of "religion". They don't mean religion. They mean American Christianity. On the whole, and looking around the world, Christianity is probably more associated with malnourishment than obesity. Islam, of course, still more. But mistaking one particular cultural phenomenon for some kind of human universal is something that American culture does all the time, and it explains quite a lot about the grotty standards of current discussion.
Enough grumpiness. It is still an interesting story, based on a solid study (more than 2,000 people, tracked over 25 years). I suspect the likeliest relation is between religion and marriage, and marriage with weight gain. I'm assuming that they controlled for social class, which is the obvious correlation. But anyone who has been there knows that the relationship between life on the spreading prairies and life in a spreading waistband is undeniable.
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Post by matt on Mar 26, 2011 5:05:37 GMT
@merkavah
That's cool to hear. Wish my church did that. Sporting events on Sunday isn't really going to explain anything anyway because there's still tons of time to workout. I was just reminded by this thread of my Pastor who's constantly complaining about how church now has to compete with sports games. I remembered half my water polo team couldn't make it to tournament games because they were on Sunday and the players were Mormon. I thought "don't they know they're alienating a bunch of good athletes?" Then again, maybe there are a lot of good Orthodox Jewish athletes. So you can't win with everyone.
It's a funny excuse to have, though. "I can't lose this weight. I'm at church during club soccer games!"
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Post by radhika12 on Jun 17, 2011 13:57:54 GMT
It depends on the diet you take it's not because of your religion.
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