Posted on 09/04/2014 8:16:11 AM PDT by detective
Rates of adult obesity increased in six U.S. states and fell in none last year, and in more states than ever - 20 - at least 30 percent of adults are obese, according to an analysis released on Thursday.
The conclusions were reported by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and were based on federal government data. They suggest the problem may be worsening despite widespread publicity about the nation's obesity epidemic, from First Lady Michelle Obama and many others, plus countless programs to address it.
From 2011 to 2012, by comparison, the rate of obesity increased in only one state.
The 2013 adult obesity rate exceeds 20 percent in every state, while 42 have rates above 25 percent. For the first time two states, Mississippi and West Virginia, rose above 35 percent. The year before, 13 states were above 30 percent and 41 had rates of at least 25 percent.
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One third of young people are now obese. The number was less than 5% when I was growing up.
Stop spending all that money on Food and send it to the Obama’s ,you’ll feel better
The USA over-produces corn, due to heavy government subsidies on that and sugar. We are like hogs being fattened for slaughter
There is no country with a falling obesity rate. Little comfort in numbers this time but along with us about a third of the world is overweight.
Looks like a great time to boycott fast food- two birds, one stone.
I don’t know what is going, it does not seem to be that so many people are fat nowadays, unless I am not noticing.
Full employment would do wonders to this trend.
The exact opposite, a high-fat, low-carb diet, is actually what the human body is designed to use efficiently.
This has everything to do with the ingestion of high glycemic foods, high sugar, high glycemic diet of every day fast food that have yielded the scourge of self-induced diabetes, diabetes 2, ass opposed to the genetic, inherited type,diabetes 1, that is turning into a global epidemic, repercussions of which causing more harm than AIDS could ever do.
“Looks like a great time to boycott fast food- two birds, one stone.”
I like the way you think.
Spend less money on food and more time working out. Problem solved.
Fat, like smoking, is a choice; ‘do what thou wilt’ just don’t ask me to pay for the results of your poor choices.
Eat fewer calories than you burn, you *WILL* lose weight, anyone saying otherwise is an ignorant idiot.
Another doughnut shop opened here the other day.
You are ignorant.
It is not “calories in...calories out”. Read up.
It is how your body handles fat, protein, and carbohydrates.
Our nation’s overweight problems are linked to our increased consumption of convenience foods and other foods that are high in carbohydrate counts.
In fact, the history of nutrition and diet studies is replete with baffled scientists trying to figure out why many people can't lose weight by eating less and exercising.
Around 20 percent of young people in this country are now Hispanic, meaning mostly mestizo and Amerindian, who tend to be obese on the modern high-carb, abundant diet.
In my elementary graduating class, 70 children, there was one obese girl, and about four kids who were chubby/beefy.
Every time Moochie Obama visits a sate the obesity rate spikes.
Indeed they get hungry when glued to the TV.
Food is great! What’s the problem?
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