Actually, I’m talking about the sudden massive increase in once rare obesity and diabetes.
Take a look at random photos of school kids from the 80s going back 100 years. Now compare that to the stockyards that are our current schools.
“...compare that to the stockyards that are our current schools.”
According to the MAYO, lifestyle issues — too little activity and too many calories from food and drinks — are the main contributors to childhood obesity. Children who don’t exercise much are more likely to gain weight because they don’t burn as many calories. Too much time spent in sedentary activities, such as watching television or playing video games, also contributes to the problem. Kids play too much with sports videos to actually have the time to play them for real. TV shows also often feature ads for unhealthy foods all geared for the eight to 18 year old age group. Additionally, there is at least one seven eleven on the kids walk to and from school everyday so they load up inventory of bad foods and go to them way to often as they are not supervised as they would be at home, (hopefully).
You speak of the 80’s. That group is the parents of today and when they failed in keeping fit they passed the problem on to their kids by not encouraging them to participate in physical activity and feeding them the same foods that got them into the mix.
However, the overweight scenario is highly over rated. According to John Hopkins in a study they did, 34 percent of adults with diabetes were overweight, while 28 percent had obesity—virtually the same as the proportions—36 percent and 28 percent—seen in people without diabetes. This is why I believe it has a lot more to do with genes and medication rather than weight.
In my case, my biggest enemy was prednisone, a steroid for my lungs internal infections, and heart condition. Depending on how bad the situation was would direct the doctor to prescribe 30, 40, or 50 milligram pills sometimes twice daily for weeks at a time. My sugar numbers would skyrocket. And while I was sedimentary, and perpetually hungry due to the meds, I would gain weight which was a reaction to the high sugar. Yo yo effect. And with insulin resistance, my body was going to retain a percentage of anything I ate...nature of the problem...and toss it onto my midriff area.
Thank you for asking about the illness. I hope you or family/friends don’t have it. Outside of the fact it shortens your life time, it is a pain in the keyster. Both my father and older brother had it and they died due to complications. Brother at 39. Dad, mid sixties.
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