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Mapping Record US Obesity By State
Adult obesity rates remained high overall, increased in six states (Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, New Jersey, Tennessee and Wyoming) in the past year, and did not decrease in any. According to a new report, despite the plunge in McDonalds' Sales, rates of obesity now exceed 35% for the first time in two states, are at or above 30% in 20 states and are not below 21% in any. Mississippi and West Virginia tied for having the highest adult obesity rate in the United States at 35.1%, while Colorado had the lowest at 21.3%. Nine out of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates are in the South.
US Obesity goes from bad to disastrous over the next 15 years...
As Trust for America's Health reports,
Findings reveal that significant geographic, income, racial, and ethnic disparities persist, with obesity rates highest in the South and among Blacks, Latinos and lower-income, less-educated Americans. The report also found that more than one in ten children become obese as early as ages 2 to 5.
Obesity rates remain higher among Black and Latino communities than among Whites:
- Adult obesity rates for Blacks are at or above 40 percent in 11 states, 35 percent in 29 states and 30 percent in 41 states.
- Rates of adult obesity among Latinos exceeded 35 percent in five states and 30 percent in 23 states.
Among Whites, adult obesity rates topped 30 percent in 10 states.- Nine out of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates are in the South.
- Baby Boomers (45-to 64-year-olds)* have the highest obesity rates of any age group – topping 35 percent in 17 states and 30 percent in 41 states.
- More than 33 percent of adults 18 and older who earn less than $15,000 per year are obese, compared with 25.4 percent who earn at least $50,000 per year.
- More than 6 percent of adults are severely obese; the number of severely obese adults has quadrupled in the past 30 years.
The Solution...
Recommendations, which were based on a series of in-depth interviews with public health experts in Black and Latino communities around the country, included:
Expanding access to affordable healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity by increasing resources for programs, connecting obesity-prevention initiatives with other ongoing community programs, and other approaches;
Providing education and addressing cultural differences to both improve people’s knowledge about nutrition and physical activity and make initiatives more relevant to their daily lives; and
Making sustainability, community input, involvement and shared leadership top priorities of obesity-prevention initiatives from the outset.
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What is perhaps most worrisome, as we noted previously, is the implied cost of this growing obesity epidemic if these forecasts are even close to reality.
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I don't understand the obesity thing. Stop fucking eating. Put the hamburger down and go ride a bike.
Nothing to do... It's not about eating, it's inflation.
"...Blacks, Latinos and lower-income, less-educated Americans."
Isn't that being redundant?
"lower-income, less-educated Americans"
Polite way to say dumb as f**k white folk.
If the unemployed were raising community gardens instead of getting food stamps, they'd be getting exercise AND healthy food.
If counties didn't make it illegal, you mean...
They already have:
A guerilla gardener in South Central LA: http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la
Fuck you McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King,...
The map colors make me want a Sonic Master Blast(TM)....MnM's too!
People with a BMI over 30 should not be allowed into these places. We need scanners, and fast.
Guns do not shoot people and neither do those places make people fat. You are responsible for the choices you make, not the gun and not the fast food joint.
News Flash: They were forced to stop smoking ------> So, they started eating.
Lesson 1: Be careful what laws you make to 'protect' people from themselves.
That's right. Living out of the back of my truck with no place to cook and working overtime, Jack-in-the_Box and McDonalds was the best way to get the calories I needed. I even won free food when Millard Hampton took silver in the Olympics. Now my caloric intake is less than half of what it used to be and I very seldom eat fast food.
Stop eating sugar and products containing sugar. Learn to cook and save money. Make your own bread. Simple.
Yes, but to that I would add just plain "fuck". It is great exercise, it is free, it is fun etc. It sure beats running around the block like an idiot or walking on a treadmill while watching some stupid news channel in a gym.
Listen. I believe that the "FAT" 'mericans are not only eating more but more importantly their food supply has been changed. High Fructose Corn Syrup from the GMO/hot pesticide "CORN FIELDS".
Eat up 'merica!
The quantity alone is not the cause, as many are pointing out. Supply chain monopolization and plastc food standardization are the bigger factors.
I'm sorry to say, amigo - they got yer ass on your side of the pond as well. Sodexho, those evil cunts, have taken over all EMs. You can tell it's Sodexho because their shitty oil and food tastes the same, wherever you go.
Listen. I'm sorry to say that you are right. In an Americanized city like Bangalore yes too.
I call myself luck as my family is all back in a smaller AG based town and actually has a large garden and an uncle who collects heirloom 'SEEDS'.
You have to be careful what you 'CONSUME'. CON-venience has it's costs.
Janice
You mean you can grow purple drank?
And no mention of cutting food stamp benefits.
Actually I prefer to view it as physics. It is a local distortion of the time space continuum.
Massive bodies do tend to distort the spacetime continuum. http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/light_deflection
Nothing is ever as bad as "they" say it is and nothing is ever as good as "they" say it is. This axiom is valid about 98% of the time. So take heart, don't worry about who's getting fat; so what... ignore it and Go live a great life!
Obesity in 2030?
What the fuck?
Another fucking hockey stick!
Who the hell even thinks there'll be enough food for anybody in 2030, enough water or clean air.
I mean, we could have the Annanuki come back for the gold and be pissed, the asteroid disaster, the earth could spontaneously combust, the .... Oh Jesus H Fucking Christ
all according to plan. in 2030 the aliens will reveal themselves and we are lunch. nice and fat just how they like us
To serve man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBRb0nhaMdc
So you're saying it's a conspiracy to feed us to aliens lol
Sounds like a movie worth watching?
I mean we're told that between global warming, rising oceans, droughts, earthquakes, population growth, pollution, cow farts, CO2 and only God knows what else... oh Guns and Bibles, too, and throw in some good olde fashioned nobody works anymore, and pretty soon the whole planet dies off of arterial sclerosis and aneurisms in front of the 1,000" 4D HD mega Stereophonic time traveling television and beer machine, gagging to death on the last bag of red hot Cheetos, unable to be rescued by the Rainbow Colored Skittle Chittagong Shitting Unicorn because of the high security fence surrounding the property and now, it's obesity!
Fuck me...
Oh and don't forget about Ebola and like crap floating about let alone the 7th Seal being Opened, the Rapture and End of Days...
And now we have Obeisant Porn
Fuck me!
Just raise taxes and spend the fucking money on illegal immigrants to vote fucking Democrat and be done with it
Jump You Fuckers!
CME to hit earth on September 11. :-D
http://spaceweather.com
CME? On 9-11? I didn't know ISIS/ISIL had that kind of technological ability.
Quiere usted casas libres, comida y medicamentos gratuitas y oceanos de cerveza? Vota El Partido Democratica!
Who taught you that stuff? Maduro? Castro? Ortega?
?!?!?!Oceanos de cervesa?!?!? !hurra!
Wearing my tin foil hat, let me suggest that the possibility exists that this theme is being propagated so as to have an excuse to limit our carbohydrate intake, especially in the older populations. Rationed healthcare and rationed caloric intake? All for our own good of course.
Durn tootin'! That's where it is going! Clearly. Death panels, food rationing (to wit: school lunches)
Oldwood, it takes a blind, deaf and dumb person to not see where we're headed.
Go 'way - batin'!
Idiocracy was a documentary.
Another extrapolate-current-trends-to-infinity graphic. Something's got to break before 2030. (My bet's on the health care budget...)
The thing I found astonishing was that first chart, for 2013. You mean to say that already there is not a single state with <20% obesity?!
Since the worst of the problems are in the South, I would imagine they're holding some Chic-fil-a in one hand and a giant sweet tea / Natty Ice in the other while doing doughnuts with their Ford trucks in the parking lot of Wal-E World. That reminds them...pick up doughnuts from Krispy Kreme on the way home to catch Big Brother on DVR.
Those are white stereotypes. The article clearly stated that NAMs are the problem.
Rican
All those "problem" southern states have a 30% plus black population. So I guess according to you blacks prefer F-150s and Chic-a-fil. Read the article again since your reading comprehension is a bit off tonight.
Obesity is more about GMOs than junk food, especially genetically modified wheat.
That's why many countries have banned the import of U.S. wheat.
Lay this whole health problem right at the feet of 1. GMO 2. Factory farming 3. FDA that looks the other way 4. Drugs being fed to "factory farmed animals" who live their "lives" in worse conditions that any soul could stomach. 5. A public that has been brought up on "food" that is dependent on additives and great amounts of subsidized corn syrup. 6. A public that does not know how to read a label and a gov. that allows obscure labelling to disguise the input of questionable ingerdients.
7. A country that does not know where food comes from and is seduced by "fast food chains that supplement with "soylent beef pink slime" and nobody who cares to allow this to be labelled.
8. A country that is so heavily lobbied into ill health. Who are allowing the patenting of DNA, and all seeds for human health.
9. A country who thinks that an Emergency OutPatient visit for a simple medical problem can cost as much as $10,000? So citizen health is subordinate to profit. Let the stocks bubble.
10. A country who disguises the actual cost of food by falsifying inflation.
11. A country that demonizes certain segments, And glorifies the white rich and "hangers on for political correctness". Do not kid yourself. Nobody living the banker life is eating the crap the other people are.
12. I give up....USA is fuked.
Have you actually gone out and watched people eat? Its a fucking miracle that more people don't get bit.
That's because GMO foods make you hungrier.
People lack meaning in life. They are empty and are trying to fill the void. We live in a consumption economy and society because we have been marketed to for that exact purpose. All past values have been discredited and replaced with "stuff". When you are told that to find contentment in your work is to be taken advantage of by your employer and to borrow and spend for your pleasure is the only real satisfaction. A glorious plate of food fills the hole nicely.
But seriously, is there ANYTHING that we are responsible for or is it all someone else's fault? There will always be someone trying to fuck us. That is the nature of life. Get used to it.
I upvoted you because you did indeed address part of the issue.
The largest part of the issue is willful ignorance. Nobody wants to hear that Mountain Dew, McDonalds, Olive "Garden, and healthy whole grains aren't good for them.
My age group peers, at least here, for the most part have BMI>30, pot bellies, and are on multiple 'scrips just to survive. They feel like shit all the time but they damn sure know the stats of the NFL's best QBs.
Nutrtition, health, fitness? Not so much.
It's not a lack of intelligence, it is simply too much trust in the PTB coupled with intellectual laziness.
2¢
It may not be the eating, vs. what is being eaten.
For example, what is really in our food?
One can eat all the "organic food" one wants, but unless one grows said food oneself, one will not truly know what was in the water, what was in the seeds, what hormones was given to the animals, what was in the fertilizer, etc.
Much like food allergies. Where were all of these 30 years ago?
Foamy the squirrel tells it as it is.......Sort of....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMNqIDveOvc
If you look back at the MCDonald's generations....the kids are taller, more allergic,...just saying. The growth hormones given to "factory farmed" travel up and down the food chain.
What bigger fool? The evidence of obesity, autism. allergies. mental health all spike with this takeover of the food system.
" don't understand the obesity thing. Stop fucking eating. Put the hamburger down and go ride a bike.
OPEN your eyes. It is actually very simple. And does not involve bike rides....Fool Fool Fool.
If you live in the ghettos created over the decades by USA with no job and food stamps where do you think you have a BIKE? or a trail to ride it on? Or fool you are to even make this idiotic, simplified judgement.
Hope you enjoyed your vacation this summer at the cottage.
We could blame it on the hood but then where did this amazing crop of black athletes come from? Kids today would rather spend prison time than lay down their facebook buddies and lift a leg. Nobody wants to work, especially physical work. Blue collar is definitely low class. If you work and sweat you are deserving of derision. Cool is to do nothing, and the only thing cooler is getting paid for it. Modernity.
I don't think it's what is in the food, it may well be what's NOT in the food.
Got laid off recently and have been trying to live on unemployment from one state while living in another with a much higher cost of living. Trying to keep a roof over our head we ran into a brick wall and had to start using what we had, rather than what we used to have. One thing I noticed was, even though volume was consistent, we were ALWAYS hungry. MRE entrees were actually more satisfying than, say, a can of beans or Kraft Mac & C, even though there was less of it. Vitamin/mineral supplements actually helped.
Reminded me of the old stories about rabbit starvation in he frontier days. People would literally starve to death on a full stomach because of the lack of certain nutrients.
Ban fatty fast foods, eat rice and fish every day. No beer or sodas, only water. Problem solved.
You're right Ivanovich: You don't understand the obesity thing. It turns out that it's more complicated than Eating too much and not exercising enough...
There's more to the story: The dirty little secret that Agrobusiness and the Food Industry does not want you to know, is that the nutritional value of US food has dropped in recent decades. This causes the nutrient-hungry body to compensate the lack of quality for quantity.
That's why more educated and higher earning people are slimmer (in part): Besides watching how much they eat and exercise, they watch WHAT they eat. They tend to eat more nutritious (less processed) food, rather than the hi-calory shit that's full of fats, carbs, salts and chemicals - but lacking in natural fiber, vitamins and minerals.
Lard Ass,Lard Ass!
The "I can't work because I'm to fucking fat" defence should draw a big red flag!
Hell, in CA you're supposed to (by law) show proof that you've attempted to gain employment but nobody even bothers anymore. Neither the folks claiming nor the folks doling it out.
I mean, anybody can get a fucking job on the Central Coast picking strawberries. Think the authorities believe that's appropriate? Fuck no. Nobody trying to claim unemployment, etc., has to even try a day at that shit.
Fucking ridiculous.
The new hate crime....to ask if you actually deserve your entitlements.
Its like giving candy at the door on Halloween. Your start out doling it like it has to last all night but before long you realize you may get stuck with the shit and start handing it out by the handfuls. The people handing out these entitlements are evaluated on how much they move, the more the better. Like it stinks like shit. Can't get rid of it fast enough.
This news makes me want to butter my Meat-supreme pizza on BOTH sides.
I hear the iWatch will help with the obesity thing. Tells you to get up and walk around every hour or sumthin
Oh, that will be totally awesome for employee productivity!
I should sell my PMs and buy AAPL immeadiately!
(Sorry, my /sarc mode seems to be stuck on.)
Even without injuries, people that suffer from obesity have drastically reduced mobility. Carrying around a large amount of extra bulk, they are almost always out of breath, unable to bend, put their shoes on, get out of a chair, or walk unaided for more than a few paces.
Climbing stairs is often out of the question for the massively overweight, and obesity on such a scale can also cause breathing problems while sleeping. Obesity occurs over a period of time, is hard to combat, the bottom line, it detracts from the quality of life and there is no fun in being truly fat.
I'm not particularly interested in saving the obese from themselves but I'm very concerned about the costs that the obese impose on others through higher health insurance rates, and for the taxpayers who pay for Medicaid, Medicare, and social security disability benefits. More on the cost of this growing problem in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/06/obesity-huge-problem-for-america....
What pisses me off is the fact that Land Whales drive like they walk. I have yet to see one with a lead foot (would need one to pass me, I spent too much time in LA, CA).
And how many of the handicap parkings are used by the fatties? Like they need to be parked even closer to the cause of their demise.
'Climbing stairs is often out of the question for the massively overweight,'
then sneak in their house at night and put the fuckin fridge upstairs, problem solved.
Climbing (and descending) a standard 13-tread flight of stairs, twice a day (morning and evening) is good for a 10kg weight loss over the course of a year (providing all other factors remain constant).
Regular "Stair exercise" has been clearly (and repetitively) shown to have added benefits, mainly balance. Elderlies who HAVE to go upstairs to bed, are FAR LESS likely to have a falls history . . . . .
Maybe it's time to ban elevators / escalators?? (no such luck!)
i stopped eating mcdonalds, coke, t.v. watching 40 years ago. however the statement that mcdonalds sales are down, yet the obesity rate is up (no kidding, i have eyes still).
as adament that i am about mcdonalds, is mental, physical and spiritual posion, their sales are down.
the other stuff is actually worse, and that's where people are going, which is why they've topped mcdonalds, more grease, salt and sugar for less $$'s. that simple.
I'm getting to the point that if I cannot see the kitchen, I do not want to eat there.
While installing digitial security systems, I was in more then a few kitchens, and the ones that made me feel like i needed to go home and soak in a vat of degreaser, are now on my do not buy list. I am back to working in a kitchen, but it's for the 1%ers. We keep that kitchen clean as f**k. I could probably live in that kitchen for a month without feeling i need to be soaked in degreaser.
Yet I'm still a slave. Do not talk to visitors/members without being spoken to first.... What does that remind you of?
F**king country club. If you're ever getting paid minimum wage, and go to return to your vheicle only to see a lambo, you're a slave.
Don't pretend your need to eat is corecion from others. Quit if you don't like your job. Learn new skills to find a better one (start with showing up on time or maybe a few minutes early and learning to look like you give a f*ck) Start your own business where you decide what your employees can say to customers.
The only slavery going on here is the Gun held to your head demanding a large percentage of your efforts be handed over as taxes.. because you are community property and the Government owns you.
Yup. And more and more people don't cook their own food; just look at the frozen food/instant food aisles in the grocery store - most of it loaded with salt, fat, sugars.
Another reason why Barry [and the MIC behind him] are desperate for moar illegals ... cannon fodder who will be granted citizenship after serving 4 years. Makes sense. In the past three months I've heard more then one general on NPR describe the desperate position the USA military is in trying to find satisfatory recruits; they both bluntly said the merikan yutes are on too many drugs, too fat or have a felony criminal record thus disqualifying them for the military.
Both generals also said they are fighting to lower the admission requirements. Just what we need!
Maybe, just maybe, we should quit making more felony laws?
Everything is a freaking felony now, including the failure to pay your taxes/health care insurance.
Nah, let's write a few thousand more and see how that works out.
On a good note, once the illegals are citizens, they will be subject to the same bureaucracy and jack boots that are up our asses now.
This i doubt. They reject 80% of applicants. There's no shortage of idiots and impressionable young to kill for bankers.
I think I heard part of one of those interviews and almost as scary were the number of vets on meds for depression, chronic pain, etc. He said they need to increase the budget by ... alot ... to take care and treat these people most o fwhom are very young. It's so friggin sad to hear of so many young people who are in that position ... but then again, as Pappa Loki said, "It's an all-volunteer military so don't blame others."
True, that. Still sad and scary.
On the other hand, it will be great for the Social Security actuarial tables!
Too many carbohydrates! Eat more fat, less carbs, lose weight.
+100
I eliminated most processed foods, including most grains, ALL low fat, no fat, fake food, added pure, unadulterated natural oils and MORE beef dropped weight and bodyfat.
The "expert" advice has been bought and paid for by big chemical, big ag, and big pharma.
Listening to them means a life filled with fat, pain, and depression.
Not to mention the loss of IQ and physical energy.
Destroying us with our consent.
Not me.
Americans lack physical workout. This contry is mostly designed for car traffic door step to door step. In other countries people walk/bike to work, to the stop/station, the store, the restaurant, the movies ...
This is amazingly accurate....I know folks on ZH would be shocked to hear that we've been lied to for years about eating less fat and more grains(carbs).
Not at all true....eat all the protein and good fats (not trans fat) and evertything improves.
Carbs and all the sugary that has been pushed on the population, I'd liken to cigararettes...design and tuned for addiction. Carbs are a hard habit to kick, but well worth it.
I am going to strap an iWatch to my cock.
This will allow me to gather important statistics, like how deep I go, how often, and it will help me meet my "performance goals"
It will also allow me to measue the feet of dick per second (FDPS) that I am giving my girl and allow me to track this over time.
WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT IT???????
What you need is a micrometer. Millimeters deep at most. And your girl is actually a male sheep.
All those fat people who are probably just about starving to death for real nutrition.
Eat real food. Maybe have a salad for lunch instead of a burger. Get on the damned stair climber for 15 minutes a day. Cutting out white flour and high fructose corn syrup alone will probably improve your health by an order of magnitude. And the weird thing is, you don't feel hungry all the time (which really took my by surprise).
Being a smoker, even I made dramatic strides in cholesterol, trigs and blood pressure with my VERY MODEST concessions to eating healthy. I'm down to only 5 lbs. over my weight graduating college, which was a long damned time ago.
The biggest contribution to weight gain is insulin spike from consuming too much sugar in a short period of time. 15-20grams of sugar per hour is what I recommend.
Besides that, eat lots of fat. it's filling and it's not hard on the liver like protein. carbs fall under sugar.
I am sick of the lard asses using the store go carts.
Easy.... easy.... Sometimes its fun to run around in one of those for shits and grins. Act stoopid, drool down yer shirt, fall out of the cart reaching for a box of freeze dried Kimchee flavored Egg Foo Young. Nobody and I mean nobody challenges anything you say or do for fear of offending. And the horn. Just drive around beeping the fucking thing all day. And when the speaker says "Attention K-Mart Shoppers, in aisle 5..." ya' fire that thing up right over to aisle 5....
All fun until the sheriff comes.... or the battery dies.
Obesity is whole body inflammation - not gluttony. And there really is a simple solution - except that implementing it would make the government look like fools (!) and would devastate the inflammatory foods industry.
http://panaceachronicles.com/2014/03/31/a-simple-natural-cure-for-obesity-coca-leaf-tea/
"Whole body inflamation". I'm using that one. I think it's a bat shit crazy way of describing the look of a Wal Mart customer on an electric scooter, with fat rolls draping off every direction from the seat. But hey, I can't be called out as being "weightist" for calling somebody inflamed as opposed to just fucking fat, now can I?
Weightist... nice one. "Whalist" is also interchangeable. :-)
You know the sad part? Weightist is a REAL WORD. Go ahead and google it. I didn't believe it either, but apparently it's fer reelz. Sad damned state of affairs.
Please let me off this ride.
"Double-wide Escalades'" are in the pipeline for these folks. I guess they'll need to widen the handicap spaces also?
Hey NoDebt - actually you can't be called a weightist but you can be called ignorant, at best, or most likely stupid. I'm calling it. At the risk of casting pearls before swine I suggest that you Google 'whole body inflammation' and educate yourself - if that's possible. Sure there are people who are obese because they are piggish - but even those people deserve compassion. Who wants to look like that - especially when there are people like you ready and more than willing to do everything possible to make them feel ashamed of who they are.
But the fact is - even though nasty people like you are for whatever reason willing to demean other people - the real reason that most 'fat' people have the problem that they do is that the only food they have access to or, in many cases, the only food they are accustomed to, is industrial poison. So go ahead and blame the victim. I'll bet there's a great job waiting for you as a guard at a FEMA camp - you'll probably be the one who decides "left" or "right". The only requirement for the job is an enthusiastic willingness to judge others as if you aren't a profoundly defective soul yourself.
A bit touchy, aren't we?
How long have you been trying to get the weight off?
Not so much touchy as more than just offended by people who would have been card-carrying KKK in the good old days but who can't hide under sheets and burn crosses anymore so they've found a new target in "fat" people.
And even if this is an old thread and it probably doesn't matter Oldwood I'm 72 years old, 150 and 5' 10" all my adult life, and I can run a 7 minute mile and bench press my own weight. And if given the chance I could break any bone I chose in your body with one hand or foot.
That sure would be fun.
I know its fashionable to blame obesity on slack morals, faulty willpower, fried foods and hoo-hoos, but the reality is that most obesity is the direct result of whole body inflammation. Granted this inflammation is largely to inflammatory foods in the diet, but it is a mistake to think that all fat people are pigs. Many if not most of them are victims of dead industrial food that is about the only kind of food they have access to. Poverty locks this in - there really is no escape.
I know. Those endless return trips to the buffet by fat slobs that I see when I cruise......carrying 4 plates piled high with food at a time. Probably the most weight they have lifted in the last 30 years.
yup. They are trapped.
Yep, they have no choice except to eat carbs all day with a 40oz soda in their hands. Poor wretches. Somebody always pointing a gun to their heads and preventing them from having a vegatable.
Apparently climate change will be so bad by then there wont be enough food so rates should actually drop. Buy more iWatches eat less.
But...you can't eat an iWatch, can you? And I thought "I Watch" was already taken by the NSA.
US Obesity goes from bad to disastrous over the next 15 years...
Because by then the government will be firehosing free calories into the faces of every voter in the country.
I've noticed that obesity and disabilities and diseases of various kinds exist in a sort of circular downward spiral, especially amongst middle aged people. Sort of like addictions.
What happens is the following:
1) get a major disability or disease, can't move around as much
2) sit around watching TV and chowing down, get obese
3) now that you are obese, movement even more restricted
Or you could start with obesity, which then leads to disease, which then disables you more leading to more obesity, etc.
I cannot tell you how many obese people are also chronically ill and disabled, and vice versa. You don't see thin people in wheelchairs anymore, they are all fat.
And the doctors keep these people going by keeping them on all sorts of meds and procedures, paid for by you and me.
And yet they still clean out all the good stuff in the buffet line before I get there.
Don't call me Norman...Call me Chubsy Ubsey!
Wow, based on straight line extrapolation 125% of the country will be obese by 2060
The author never expected the Spanish Inquisition.
You're not supposed to point out stuff like that.
See see see MOAR hockey stick fear porn shit ....
Lies, all lies....
By 2030 half the fucking people will be starving to death
Did we not just have a long talk about ebola.
99.9% of the political class are already there, if being a fathead is the same as being obese.
Of course, because each land whale counts at 300% of a person.
greater accessibiilty to fresh foods?? piggly wiggly doesnt have a fresh fruit and veg area? access to physical activity? try turning off the teevee and clean up the yard!
what I really wnat to see is a chart on the MORBID OBESITY rates, those are some 'sad sacks'!
Solution?
The human body is being slammed with things that taste like food, but are empty. This tells the brain to eat more to get essential nutrition, but none is ever given. It's all garbage.
A non-GMO diet, no corn syrup, no or little soy (non-GMO), no artificial sweeteners, very little wheat. Grow a garden, a really big one fed with compost. Eat range-fed protein.
If they unplug from the industrial agriculture system, they'll be healthy. Food from grocery stores is devoid of nutrition. Vegetables look like vegetables, but there is nothing to them. For example: If you send an organic free-range chicken egg and a CAFO egg to a lab, the free-range has 300-500% higher nutrition, and far less bad stuff.
Even better yet, become a permaculture farmer. I did.
Bodybuilder food is milk, oatmeal, canned beans, canned tuna. Very nutritious and minimalist cheap.
It appears the definition of Baby Boomer has been bastardized a little. No Baby Boomer is 45 years old. Last year of BB generation was 1964 and that is pushing it a bit in my opinion.
Wait... Are you trying to say Gen Xers are old?!
I"m trying not to but time is marching on and Gen Xers are older now than they were when you wrote your reply. Father time sucks ass and is undefeated.
Cut off welfare like section 8 and food stamps.
Problem solved.
What is disturbing is I see this in young kids - 6 thru 16. Kids that should be burning 1000's of calories simply running around. WTF is going on with that. There was 1 kid in my class (no the whole frickin' school) back in my younger days and he had a tyhoid problem - and was teased terribly for it.
What a horrible quality of life? Imagine the things we take for granted and visualize yourself wondering around with an extra 100 lbs on you. They must hate themselves on some level.
I work for BOA, (bank of africa as I call it) in the USA. One look at the a/a females, and there is the 50 percent threshold in 2014. The only exercise they get is running their mouths
Kids?!?!?!?! Kids?!?!?!?! Whats wrong with the kids?
They can't play outside anymore. No football, baseball, hockey, no jungle gyms, no somersaults, no fucking beating each other up, chasing and running from bullys, screaming bloody murder, throwing rocks at the nerds, no fist fights... I mean can't even fucking hug! Whatchu thinks gonna happen? Might just as well have the kids stand in the corner loaded up with Ativan and Thorazine FFS for all the good it does.
Fuck me, the kids got fuck all nothing else to do but eat!
That or beat their meat in the hallway between classes .... and pretty soon everybody'll get a trophy for participation in the Daily Circle Jerk followed by the 2 Minutes of Hate.
Whats the fuck wrong with the kids, you all ask....
But their thumgs get plenty of use with all those electronic thingies. And speaking of playing outside, any kid trying to do what I did at age 5 would be shot dead almost instantly. Every kid on the block ran around dressed like a cowboy (this was the early 1950s) with a pair of Colt replicas. The cops would cruise by and wave. Now they would shoot first and ask questions later.
And some call this progress.
Yes and back then it was the norm to "shame" an overwieght person. If you remember back in the mid to late 80's perhaps (maybe early 90's) there was a move by the government and media to embrace your "fatness". For years the "love your body, no matter how fat you are" was the national narrative, mostly concerning a woman's body and it was verboten and politically incorrect to disagree. At the time anorexia and bulimia was all the rage. A few decades later, when obesity became more common place and society was conditioned by the government to ignore it, NOW the narrative is to address the obesity problem in the US. I believe this would fall under the heading of "unintended consequences" as a result of a "feel good" government thought police blitzkrieg. Currently shaming isn't considered an option but the government's narrative has definitely done a 180 and they are enacting a flurry of laws attempting to prevent a person's free will as it pertains to the intake of food and drink. Quite frankly I'd rather resort to shaming as I don't see why fit people should be "penalized" because of the actions of a certain group (the obese).
Hell if a thin, fit guy wants to eat an entire pizza and down it with a gallon of soda, then so be it. If he's blessed with those types of genetics then good for him, meanwhile I think I gained 5 lbs just writing about eating a pizza and drinking a large soda. Just because I can't get a way with it doesn't mean the guy who can should have to be subject to restrictions that don't appear to affect him. I know this hasn't became illegal yet but give a Bloomberg, fascist Authority enough time anything is likely to happen.
Imagine what would have happened if Michael Phelps had been restricted to a normal caloric intake. But hey, government knows best, don't they?
Overlay this data with minority populations please.
The white population of the US is in line with (but on the high edge) the obesity rates of European countries.
There are black people in Europe too, you know. And I heard that there is a statistically important % of Hispanics in ... err, Spain.
but they arent African Americans. Seems to be a completely different demographic.
Every time I see one of these obesity articles it begs the question...
Are we absolutely sure that these people are *not* evolutionarily superior to 'skinny folk;' their bodies just anticipating the much touted [by Russian scientists, I might add] mini-Ice Age that is to be upon us in 2030?! I personally like to refer to this trend as the Fatpocketlypse.
You know, perhaps their bodies know something ours do not. Or perhaps the government has redefined obesity, yet again, to be ever more exhorbitantly ridiculous.
The world may never know. And how the hell do you project obesity 15 years out exponentially?!
Timing is everything. Dying of heart failure versus surviving long periods of time on body blubber and providing warmth, shelter and shade for your less fortunate significant "other".
Not obese does not mean healthy. 70% of US population are above healthy weight (including overweight).
http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/
Eat your vegetables
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/krav/pressreleases/sweden-record-sales-of-o...
But its becoming a problem in Sweden as well. In 2009 the number of obese people increased for the first time in 70 years.
I blame American lifestyle influence.
Big-vegetable propaganda.
Veggies don't have calories. Useless.
Look whos talkin...
Well we blame our current nation-destroying Communist infestation on soulless, pathological, Scandinavian Socialism.
So, I suppose we are even.
Ok you guys too? What's the big deal here? It's not as if people that are obese are hiding out, just walk out your front door. What it is is the virtual and real world values again as we love to make these heat maps and the infographics creators are just screaming for recognition on their pretty graphics. That's what this is all about and we do nothing as we can't quantiate fat people, education is where it counts.
So here's yet one more failing model where the dupees think all you have to do is model and quantiate it and the problem will fix itself.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/09/obesity-just-as-big-as-ever-in-us...
You folks do a good job with fake stats here all the time and why I read. We all know obesity is an issue and economic times are a part of the reason but it isn't all of it. We get stupid as a few weeks ago some idiot wrote a study saying that it's lack of exercise and not over eating that's causing the obesity problem, excuse me, food still has to go in, unless you have one of those very rare diseases.
Granted, keeping track of general numbers, is ok, but look where they go with it and go nuts with pretty heat maps and all kinds of other crap. I just wrote about the pre-diabetes diagnosis as that turns otherwise healthy people into patients as many will never develop diabetes. It's a good video at the link as they go so far with pre-clinical to have pre-acne and nobody's even broke out with a pimple yet. We are all diagnosed "pre death" if you didn't know that. So today some idiot puts out a study saying 15% of diagnosed pre-diabetes are also more susceptible to cancer. Ok, now keep in mind the pre-diabetes study is flawed as everyone won't develop diabetes and they also stated the test for pre-diabetes was flawed.
Why in the hell not do a study on people that actually have diabetes? Is this sounding like market logic? Yeah, seems that way to me too.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/07/medical-journal-says-pre-diabetes...
So as well as the markets, you get code hosed over in healthcare too. We need to do something else besides quantitating fat people and complimenting all the folks who make pretty heat maps.
1. Shoot your television.
2. Eat only food you have prepared from scratch.
3. Walk or jog a few miles a week.
4. Look like a normal person in six months.
Shooting your television is "normal". Wow!
That WON'T WORK unless that food you prepare from scratch avoids carbs -- especially wheat (bread, pasta, cakes), potatoes, rice, corn and vegetable oils.
I don't know whom i hate more — fat people, or short people.
You'd really hate my dingdong
Even if you are happy to see him?
Most regional variations can be explained by race. Pretty soon, CA, AZ, etc will be amnong the fattest states as they will continue to become more Hispanic.
Among whites, the fattest states are in the Midwest (think that fat guy who makes those boring movies). The South is second. B oth regions are predominately Northern Europeran (Brits in the South, Germans and Scands in the midwest.) Designed fpr storing all that food for the harsh N. European winters. Also many N. Europeans are not designed for the grain diets of the Mediterranean. They get diabetis II and they get fat.
One more article like this and Medicare is going to commit suicide.
What a crock of shit. Not even a whiff of pseudo-science involved. This site must be an extraterrestial scoping study of human behavior. 2030 ya gotta be kidding me.
2030? yeah maybe sooner lol
Sorry, but it's simply laziness. Consume more calories than you burn...weight gain. Simple math. These people see a few pounds gained and don't nip it in the bud early via some simple excercise and eating a bit less.
Next thing you know, it's next year and 50 pounds heavier, and their lifestyle and habits are now completely fucked.
The problem now is they see the simple way out is via subsized lap band surgery. What a fucking joke. We make it easier for them to hop on a .gov subsidized skooter to go shopping at Walmart and the liquor store.
Fuck that. They need to shut those subsidies down and if there is a subsidy...it should be for a gym membership.
I can't stand when I gain 2 pounds...I feel like a pile of shit and do something about it. Can't for the life of me understand how a person can gain weight, year after year, and then turn around and they are 50-100 pounds more than they should weigh, and not care.
First thing these fuckers should do is stop consuming sugar....all forms of it. Learn what foods have it and what form it's in. Stop drinking soda and juice. No cookies, cakes, candy or bread. These people will say they don't eat that stuff, but they do.
Second thing is get off your ass and MOVE. ANYWHERE. Even if it's for 5 minutes. Walk out the door to the fucking side walk and back inside again. Do some fucking thing other than watch TV or sleep.
I jog like 35 miles a week and I got up to 179 fat fucking pounds. It was like carrying two gallons of extra water on a 10k daily run. I got almased and quit eating and continued jogging and I weigh 164 and 1/2 pounds. I feel much better and it is easier to jog. Took me about 8 weeks. I hate fat people even when it is me.
That was part of my point...I hate myself too when I gain too much weight. It's a mindset, and part of that mindset is to stop being lazy.
Two of the best Thomas Jefferson quotes relating to this subject:
"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning"
"Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence"
Just looking at fat people, even thinking about those disgusting bastards, makes me sick to my stomach.
Dear consumers of fast food and prepackaged "food" of all descriptions:
You are farmed from birth by the high profit food industry, later to be harvested by Big Medicine and Big Pharma...the object is to keep you consuming as much as possible and dying after writing your last cheque to the avaricious.
Commit a revolutionary act: Ride a bike to work, walk to the corner store and read a few books like "The Paleo Solution" or "Wheat Belly" for a comprehensive set of health recommendations.
My son and I this month have been bucking and splitting the 5 cords of firewood that will be needed for his digs in the Rockies this winter. Despite the beer, am back to my (varsity tennis) college weight. I highly reccomend it. Besides, when you chop your own firewood, it warms you twice.
It warms you when you cut the logs, when you load them into the truck, when you unload, split, and stack the wood...
And finally when you burn it.