tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post4711624048023777259..comments2024-03-24T16:53:02.846-07:00Comments on Five Hundred Pound Peep: Obesity Risk May Be Lowered By Moving Into A Better NeighborhoodFive Hundred Pound Peephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862707335431442713noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-60561829645566699782011-10-23T18:29:47.261-07:002011-10-23T18:29:47.261-07:00Thanks Real Cie, I am glad you understand. Am glad...Thanks Real Cie, I am glad you understand. Am glad your mother helped you. I hope your area is safe even if run down. Rural run down was far far easier then urban run down, I escaped to the middle of nowhere, and it probably saved my life back then. Also a rural community is easier to bear, then urban community with violent crime. Your neighbors are friendlier. I still regret leaving there but the economic collapse of America has affected many personal lives including my own.<br /><br /> Live somewhere else now but it's not like that first place. I think cortisol for the poor where everyday is survival and even thinking of how modern life has stressed everyone to the gills, and throwing in the giant dash of stigma, the cortisol levels are probably through the roof. I have a study in one paper I wrote from the 90s where they studied cortisol levels in men, and the poorer men had far higher cortisol levels then other groups. Yeah it was dangerous in that first neighborhood to even go out to take a walk mid-day, and even then even the shortest trip that could not be walked cost $1.50 for the bus. Imagine coming up with 4 or 5 bucks everytime you just wanted to go somewhere ordinary. Oh it was a terrible lifestyle. Even getting to work, was a $1.50 bus ride each way coupled with a 3-4 dollar cab ride each way. 6-7 bucks every day just to get to work before I was disabled. I was being locked in via poverty owning no car, and locked in via the body. Few social connections as well as soon as I was disabled.<br /><br /> Yeah gym memberships, exercise equipment far out of the reach. Being too broke to do things means you are at home more, less opportunity to move, etc. Bad food, bad groceries, skipping and missing many a meal, and so hungry by the time meal time came around, a person doesn't want to eat carrot sticks then. <br /><br />LOL about moving to a less run down area. Yeah they make it sound so simple. My escape only came via outside help. Thanks for your comments glad you relate. Sometimes reading the blogs of fatland, I feel like I am reading richy-richy--"we do not relate land"--still remember the chick on Big Fat Blog, talking about parasailing in Ecuador, that is someone as far from my reality as the Queen of England. That isn't a poor fat person quibbling about how she is going to afford her compression hose.<br /><br />In "fat land" there very few working class or lower socio-economic voices but that is across the board on the internet due to the lower degrees of internet access and computer ownership, but sometimes one can feel very alone in the life they live. Glad you relate.Five Hundred Pound Peephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862707335431442713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-59648653040660417872011-10-23T01:58:59.864-07:002011-10-23T01:58:59.864-07:00Don't be ashamed of having been in that situat...Don't be ashamed of having been in that situation. I have been living in a rundown mobile home for quite some time--and I work full time, but I can't fund the repairs. My mother helped me pay for some of them so at least there is a floor and walls in the back, but I can't ask her for more. <br />I think that living in these areas does raise people's cortisol levels due to stress. Also, how are you going to get out and get exercise if it's dangerous to go out? And how many of these folks can afford exercise equipment. Seriously! But hey--it's as simple as moving to a less rundown area! :/Ornery Owl of Naughty Netherworld Press and Readers Roost https://www.blogger.com/profile/07596105116325246476noreply@blogger.com