Posted on 11/29/2014 10:34:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The number of overweight and obese people has skyrocketed over the past thirty years, jumping from 857 million in 1980 to more than 2 billion in 2013. That's approximately a third of the world's population. In 2010 alone, between 3 and 4 million people died due to complications from obesity.
While the United States is often pegged as the standard-bearer for overweight populations, there are more than a few countries tracking close behind.
With people in the world becoming more sedentary thanks to desk and computer jobs and more and more gaining access to high calorie, high fat foods like fast food and soda, the obesity epidemic will become a massive public health crisis in the coming decades, unless drastic steps are taken.
A new study out in The Lancet by the Global Burden of Disease has revealed the ten countries with the highest rates of obesity. A few may surprise you.
1. United States
78 million people, or 33% of the adult population.
2. China
46 million people, or 4.4% of the adult population.
3. India
30 million people, or 3.8% of the adult population.
4. Russia
28 million people or 24.1 percent of the adult population.
5. Brazil
22 million or 16.2 percent of the adult population.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
It really isn’t that long ago that half of Ireland starved to death. I mpictures of starving children in Biafra from when I was a kid, which I still don’t know where that is, but they were starving. India never had it so well with 800 million people, but they don’t seem to be doing that bad right now.
What we have here are enviros who think that we are killing the earth by eating too much, and it is proof that humans are a cancer on the planet. Look at all the greedy fat humans! I refuse to complain about how we have revolutionized agriculture enough to overfeed a good percentage of the world’s population. It wasn’t that long ago that they told us we would be out of oil by now, and that the world couldn’t support 8 billion people. Also, the oceans are way overdue to be at least one foot deeper than they are right now. But doom and gloom are bread and butter for a lot of people.
Some day in the not too far off future, they will look back and see that this was the Golden Age, and we were already living in the Promised Land. By that time, the entire world will have been frightened into socialism.
When people like me are considered obsese, those numbers mean nothing.
5’10”. 260. 12% body fat.
You have to admit, you’re a rare exception. Most people rated as obese are just fat.
And here I just went and made the mistake of posting a response to a Business Insider article. I do not go to their site to read their crap. The few times I looked, they appeared to be leftist anti-business types. Same with Huffington Post. And MSNBC. I refuse to look at them or acknowledge their existence.
“Stand back, those buttons are about to explode”!
;’)
Forgotten about that one....Oldie but a good one...
Thankfully I skipped lunch...
Not so rare. Almost every body builder, power lifter, and fitness competitor are ranked the same as the blobs you see roving the aisles at Walmart...
Beginning with moo - shell Obama.
“”Not so rare. Almost every body builder, power lifter, and fitness competitor are ranked the same as the blobs you see roving the aisles at Walmart...”””
Not rare? What’s the ratio of those you mention to the populace? About 100,000:1?
I work out regularly and am in good shape but I look around and all I see are fast people and people who are around 30% body fat.
On a per-capita basis, Samoans have to be the fattest group of people by a wide margin...
I don’t judge,but I’ll cut you!
Who the heck cares? Oooh, oooh, how about a waste of money, time and energy over a study of how belly button lint affects leaf fall during the full moon?
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