Posted on 10/13/2015 11:33:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
The United States is home to the most obese population in the Americas, Asia and Europe, has the fattest kids by a wide margin and is tops in poor health for teenagers, according to the latest measure of well-being from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
In its "How's Life 2015?" report released Tuesday, the United States is also among the nations with underperforming students and second in murders and assaults.
But the U.S. shines when it comes to personal wealth and even the number of rooms in our homes, said the organization that charts the personal and economic health of countries.
The report from the world organization is released every two years and this year it features a focus on child health and welfare in Europe, the Americas and much of Asia, including Japan and South Korea.
The report notes that all nations have room to improve quality of life for its citizens, though it doesn't openly criticize the United States. However, in several graphics and charts, it is clear that the United States doesn't match the world average in several areas besides child health.
For example, the U.S. is a national of workaholics that doesn't take as much time off as the rest of the world. It also is subpar on life expectancy, adult skills and suffers a higher rate of deaths due to assault than other nations in the report.
But it was the findings on obesity and child health that jumped out in the important report. The key page is shown below.
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In the obesity chapter, the United States is put at No. 1, ahead of 33 other nations, despite years of work by the Obama administration, the first lady and the Agriculture Department, which has been pulling sugar and salt out of school lunches.
The report shows that obesity in America has jumped since 2000 and that 35 percent of the nation is overweight. For comparison, 4 percent of Japanese and 25 percent of Canadians are obese.
The U.S. also tops the list of teens report in poor health, at 22 percent.
Worse, the U.S. soars over every other country in the number of obese and overweight children, at a whopping 38 percent. The next worse country is Canada, with a combined obese and overweight child population at below 25 percent.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
“Forty-two percent of low-income women in the United States are obese, and the rate of obesity is even higher among women who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — formerly the food stamp program.”
What else to expect from a culture that has no self respect or self discipline
Higher income wives are under pressure to be thin
That’s about it
Orientals aside from Filipinos seem to stay thinner which is weird considering how fat Amerindians are
If you’re my age you see dozens of obese folks daily that you would have only seen once a year in my youth
Higher altitude areas and hot chick areas seem to resist the fattiness
It’s really amazing
I’m in Nashville baggage claim
I’m gonna do a count......
About 25% obese
Less than I figured
I was raised dirt poor, in Mississippi of all places, and I wasn’t fat as a kid..........................
They can't pay the overweight fees......................
Food stamp recipients are far more likely to be obese than poor people who are eligible but don’t take the help. And they’re even more likely to be obese than those with higher incomes.
Fully 40% of food stamp recipients are obese, the study found, compared with just over 30% of those who don’t participate in the program.
Read More At Investor’s Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/blogs-capital-hill/050615-751339-obesity-rates-far-higher-among-those-on-food-stamps.htm#ixzz3oTh68STh
The root of the problem can be traced in part to the food purchasing habits of the parents of children participating in SNAP. Left entirely to their own devices, these parents tend to choose high-fat, nutrient-poor foods to bring into the household.
http://www.examiner.com/article/study-suggests-food-stamps-contribute-to-childhood-obesity
Well that’s what happens when liberals complain about school sports maybe hurting themselves, cant play tag, cant run, oh heavens touch football, baseball, swings, cant have any exercise might strain their little bodies, so they sit home playing on their Gameboys and cellphones.
True...
I was being a bit snarky in that there are still large efforts to “stop hunger”, yet we have this report showing we have the most obese kids as a percentage on the planet...
It just doesn’t compute unless one realizes that both of these are just efforts designed to grow government and to get BigGOV involved more at every level.
One to “fight hunger” and another to “fight obesity”...
I was raised dirt poor, in Mississippi of all places, and I wasn’t fat as a kid..........................
neither did we in fact we ate dirt. lol
I grew up the 70’s. We were outside from crack of dawn until dark. My mom literally had to yell down the street to bring us in. My parents still live in same neighborhood & there are lots of kids but none playing outdoors like we used to. It’s sad.
Someone also mentioned the parks - I agree, the local park I used to play at has none of the old equipment. They took it all out.
They never break the data down by race.....
Yep, some parents need to figure out a way to put their gadgets and toys down for an hour and COOK DINNER instead of bringing home a bag of crap every night from the Golden Arses.
I am with you except if there was ever a need for military conscription again, I have read where 60% of potential soldiers would not meet minimum physical fitness requirements.
Many cannot (are not allowed to) walk to and from school, or 3 blocks away to their friends’ homes, or ride bikes.
Was your family on public assistance?
That is sad.
First grade was the best, we were finally old enough to ride our bikes to school, 3 miles away. Unsupervised.
I’ll bet there are a lot of 6th gradeers not allowed to do that, even under a mile.
I’m almost 50, if that’s any reference point.
Remember playing “smear the queer” on the blacktop?
There was none as such in the early 60’s, plus people in my area were usually too proud to accept any from even churches..........
The only ‘Public Assistance’ that was available when I was a kid, before Johnson’s Great Society programs were installed, was commodity programs where people would get a big cardboard box full of basic foodstuffs from government price support programs, like flour, cornmeal, butter in cans, peanut butter in cans, sugar and the like..................
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