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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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What's really disgusting is the acceptance and political correctness ("full figured" instead of "fat bastard"). Fat is the new normal apparently.
You actually have flabby women wearing belly button rings to direct attention to their belly rolls spilling over the side of their barely-able-to-squeeze-their-fat-ass-into hip hugging jeans (or spandex pants).
And fat slobs are modeling in tank-inis or some such.
Whatever happened to pride in appearance? Whatever happened to standards?
See you at the buffet.
Standards are waycist, or weightist, or sexist, or elitist, or something.
Standards are the enemy of the Idiocracy.
Doesn't matter. I pork fat slobs too.
Eat food.
Mostly vegetables.
And not too much.
Hey Bro, how about you don't tell me what to eat and I won't tell you what to eat. Okay?
Birinyi lent his ruler to the writer of this article? It is not going to happen, as the US empire will collapse before 2030 bringing widespread misery.
of course the 2030 numbers don't take into account that you may all be putting in home gardens because no one is working.
or maybe the 2030 numbers are projections for the 1%
in any event you're f*cked because of the obese blacks and hispanics there will be no one to fight your wars for you.
Naw. We'll just give them meth rations. Even a fat guy can run around kicking ass on meth.
I believe that McDonald's said it best. "We are not responsible for your over weight children". That may very well be so, but they are part and parcel of a corporate ideology problem where as long as you have a product to sell and it makes a good profit, who cares if it kills people or not? I know, I know save me the speeches on "we are responsible for our own actions". That too is correct. There are some people who get it well on here that it is "what" is in the food not what the food is itself. Sugars are in everything. They have fancy names that they call them, like glucose, fractose and a few others but they are still the same. Sugars. Do sugars cause addiction? Hmmmm....let's see now. They produce good feelings (be they ever so short), they produce cravings to eat when you are not hungry, they mimic the same responses that other methamphetamines have on the brain like say, cocaine (is cocain addictive?), they cause inflatmation of the heart and a host of other little goodies. Yep, it does taste good. We eat what tastes good.
This is what happens when a society deteriorates. We stop caring for each other. This cycle feeds on itself. Much the same as the "deflation monster" that central banks fear so much. Perhaps their fears are in the wrong place to make lasting change?
There is nothing wrong with our government that less than a thousand rounds of .45's and .30's couldn't solve. A solution is required, and i don't currently have the resources.
Just surcharge insurance premiums based on BMI.
No. BMI doesn't account for people with extreme training.
Right. The training freaks will probably be among the first to die out and should pay a surcharge.
Note: no solutions to remove the hormones and antibiotics and a variety of other "growth" inducing or growth regulating "drugs" that have totally permeated the food chain... Everywhere in the world where the industrial food processes follow the US, the Obesity quickly follows. It is not just that people drink and eat high caloric, high fat, low nutrition food, but that they are all Ginni pigs to the largest industrial food experiment ever conducted on the human race.
Actually, even wild animals are getting fatter in the US, although I have not seen any likely hypothesis (really wild animals, so not animals that feed off garbage, etc.). These are scientific stats, and it is somewhat of a mystery.
In general, however, it cannot just be sedentary lifestyles and cheap food, because obesity is a rising problem even in third world countries. It also is not a matter of sloth or choices: animals regulate their intake dynamically, a mechanism that has been refined over millions of years of evolution. If you count calories and are off by only 100 kcal/day (less than a sandwich or some fruit), you're gaining 10 lbs/ year. Obviously something is undermining the calibration in the population.
So the clue is likely to be in changes to diets. It is not fat, people used to have a pot of lard and stick it in the food to make it more nourishing. There seems good evidence that it is lack of nutrients in forms you can absorb, hydrolized fats (don't go rancid meaning your body can't break them down either), and espcially sugar and proxies (refined carbohydrates) screwing up you glucose/insulin metabolism.
Travelling in "primitive" areas it struck me that the one thing these people want (because they lack it themselves) is medicines (for longevity, they think) and anything sweet.
Maybe the "wild" animals are getting access to genetically modified food. Anyway, thanks for your comment. On the Island of Hawaii before the US colonized it, being fat was a status symbol. It meant wealth. Here where I have been staying in the Philippines, the wealthy are the fat ones. They have access to all the international junk food sources, nobody else does. Yes, cooking everything with natural fat was the norm, but as you said it was natural, very different. And I am totally with you on the 100 cal a day thing. I can measure my weight gain over time just by drinking 2 sodas a week. But I stand by my statement that what is going into our industrially raised livestock is going into our bodies and this is aggravating the incredible weight gain, esp of the youth. The poor have access to the lowest grade industrial food with low nutritional value. That is often a primary food source for them. The billions of dollars the US taxpayer puts into Agricultural subsidies every year are going to the corporate farmers who use very low cost base ingredients to produce low nutrition 400% markup food and everyone is buying it. Go to the store and watch how many people buy flower...
after the Culling, the sample size will be much reduced in 2030. Hence Why I hate stats, they can paint a distored pictured for the weak mind
Forget it. If fatness is a problem for human well-being and life expectancy, it will auto-correct, if it is a benefit, it wil continue. Trust in the evolutionary process, it has worked for millions of years so, let it be and don't try to second-guess it. Evolution doesn't care what you think anyway.
So basically, let all the stupid fat people die and we'll all be better off? Even better, encourage people to eat junk and get fat, and we can quickly cull the morons from society? Only the stupid will fall for it.
So basically, let all the stupid fat people die and we'll all be better off? Even better, encourage people to eat junk and get fat, and we can quickly cull the morons from society? Only the stupid will fall for it.
Maybe the fat people will ultimately live longer and the stupid skinny people will die off. In any case, it's none of your business, or mine, what other people choose to eat or what weight they may prefer to be. I would assume that you are a Liberal due to your control issues.
Frankenfood, GMOs, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Processed "food", high sugar content in everything, especially soft drinks, and five hours of TV a day (on average) and you are surprised that people are obese? And stupid? Isn't that what TPTB want? Stupid, slow, fat people? Easier to herd.
I don't think you realise that you are the one being herded. How about you just eat what you want and let other people eat what they want. It's called "freedom", ever hear of it?
This is fucking SICKENING.
Why?