Posted on 02/26/2026 5:13:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday revealed that childhood and teen obesity rates in the U.S. have reached record highs in recent years.
The first report details how the CDC’s researchers found that 40.3 percent of adults 20 and older were found to be obese, which included 9.7 percent who have severe obesity and another 31.7 percent who are classified as overweight. This report was conducted between August 2021 and August 2023.
Between 1988 and 1994, when the second report was being surveyed, researchers found that almost 23 percent of adults 20 years and older were found to be obese. Of that number, 2.8 percent had severe obesity, and 33.1 percent were deemed overweight.
The researchers relied on heights and weights established by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to monitor and track years-long trends. Surveying for both reports was paused starting in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed in August 2021.
Professor David Ludwig of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health called the rate levels “exceptionally concerning.” He noted in a report published by the school that obesity rates were previously on a decline for children between 2 and 5 years old in the 2010s, something he said was a “glimmer of hope.” What reached down to 9.4 percent between 2013 and 2014 jumped to a 14.9 percent obesity rate.
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Go back to government cheese and make their lazy, fat, asses walk to a food bank.
The charts I’ve found say anything over 25 BMI is “overweight” I’m not sure where the “obese” line is.
I grew up in the ‘60s and I ate a lot of trix cereal and Cheerios fruit Loops and grape nuts flakes. Very high carb high sugar diet, Not healthy.But I was a skinny kid. The difference between now and then Was we were very active all the time always outside playing, hiking, riding bicycles playing football in the street. I stayed skinny until I got a nice comfy desk job in my late 20s. Now I have to almost eat carnivore totally just to keep from ballooning up into the cream puff marshmallow man.
No processed food in my kitchen or take-out for at least 15 years. I weigh 112 and often forget to eat. Don’t give one single hoot about food and hate to cook.
Easiest weay to cook potatoes and veggies is to scrub them, cut into bite-size pieces and steam them. Do a few day’s worth at a time. Steaming is easiest way to cook and preserves the most nutrients. Meat? Only boneless, sinless chicken thighs, organic. You can get them everywhere. Safeway, Trader Joe’s, Natural Grocer, Kroger/Fred Meyer in our ‘hood, etc etc.
Protein is quick and easy to saute in olive oil. Alaskan salmon and organic extra firm tofu on alternate nights. Extra virgin olive oil is good on fork-mashed potatoes with ground pepper and a little bottled parseley on top. Organic frozen veggies come in large-enough freezer bags. My faves from Safeway, tiny pieces steam through really fast.
Fetish: Cranberriy sauce. I buy several cans in a reasonably large box at AMZ, always have it with chicken. Veggie sauce from AMZ is organic salt-free salad dressing. I buy 3 bottles at a time so it’s always there
Getting my very slender butt into the kitchen taakes far more time than cooking.
i thought kids were starving
30 ingredients go into a cracker...
Sounds like gang rape
Public Service Announcements were, umm, "different" when when I was a kid.
If people would make coffee at home, put it in a thermos, Starbucks would go away. Nobody even makes mashed potatoes anymore. They are already prepared in a plastic pouch that goes in the microwave. It's almost like our public is buying MRE's.
I love food and love to cook.
But even many processed foods I liked earlier in life are kind of off-putting now. I like to cook from scratch.
Impossible. Democrats tell us everyone’s starving because Trump tax cuts to billionaires. (Use to be millionaires and billionaires until most of the democrats became millionaires from insider trading.)
You’re lucky that you love to cook. Good meals are ooooo necessary.
My Mom hated to çook, and I’m tiny like she was. But my dad loved food and loved to cook, was in the restaurant biz with “shops” all over the country. All of my cooking methods were learned from him. Greatest advice:
“Buy the best food you can afford and do as little as possible to it.”
That’s exactly what I do. Still very healthy at 89. (My MD said NO to covid shots
for me).
What does anyone expect when you feed kids carbs all the time and discourage physical activity but rather screen time all day?
I remember watching The Honeymooners as a teen and being disgusted by how fat Jackie Gleason was.
I recently saw some clips from it and thought that gee, he wasn’t as fat as I thought.
And it hit me how used to seeing fat people I’ve become that I didn’t think he was that bad after all.
If food stamps is going to be a thing, it should be the same kind of thing as WIC, where the coupons are for certain food items and can only be used on those things.
Your father’s advice was very good!
There have always been fat people. But they weren’t as common in those years. The fact that most had to do somewhat more physical labor probably played a part; but I think the main culprit today is the overly processed diet.
Well, some of us do still cook from scratch, including mashed potatoes! I think the last time I didn’t makes mashed taters from scratch was when I was in college a bazillion years ago. I guess I thought the potato flakes were a neat idea, but soon learned that I didn’t like the way they tasted.
One of my jobs growing up was helping (major time) in the kitchen, so I realized pretty early on that it was a useful skill, and produced better tastes than the ready made (or nearly ready made). I have kept it up even when my kids were little, and then they learned to cook also.
You should see when I go visit my kids who are now adults. All of them cook from scratch - frequently!! So there’s hope! And when they come to my house, watch out!! It’s like a cooking competition show, but in my kitchen with only one range, and a not nearly enough counter space.
Oh, and though hubby and I are beginning to gain weight where it’s harder to take off than before, all of our kids are slim, maybe too slim.
The key is using fresh ingredients as best as you can, and using those ingredients to prepare home made healthy and delicious meals.
I look at “mashed potatoes” for sale and think how lazy people must be, plus wonder about any nutritional value. Yech.
I have noticed the same thing when looking at old episodes of Bandstand and Young Talent Time (an Australian tv show). All the young people were thin. Now, it is noticeable that school children have double chins and big bellies.
I think one of the most destructive things is what has been done to our wheat and bread. Our ‘staff of life’ has been so highly hybridized, it’s just not the bread even our parents and grandparents ate.
Even people here on FR have remarked that when they go to Europe, the bread there doesn’t cause them the weight gain and other problems that American breads do.
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