Posted on 09/15/2021 8:11:34 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports the number of states with lots of fat people has nearly doubled since 2018.
Four more states have been added to CDC's obesity list since the Covid shutdowns.
Scientists say extreme obesity is a major risk factor for Covid-19.
According to CDC's stats, Asian-Americans are generally not fat. No state had an obesity prevalence at or above 25% among Asians.
The fattest, measured by race, which is how CDC categorizes the statistics, are Blacks. CDC says that 35 states and the District of Columbia have an obesity prevalence at or above 35% among Blacks.
CDC's fat map. Dark red from Texas thru Michigan is most obese. Next in line on the fat train are Hispanic residents. CDC says 22 states have an obesity prevalence at or above 35% among Hispanics.
And 7 states had an obesity prevalence at or above 35% among White residents.
The sixteen states that have the highest adult obesity prevalence are:
Alabama Arkansas Delaware (new this year) Indiana Iowa (new this year) Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Mississippi Ohio (new this year) Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas (new this year) West Virginia
Not that it matters, but all of the states on the list except Delaware and Michigan went in the Trump column in the 2020 presidential election.
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So hard working busy asians are skinny and lazy good for nuttin blacks are fat.
Which race is tallest?
A wonder if there is also a wright correlation to government welfare subsidies.
Wealthy people tend to be normal weight and fit. Go to any wealthy area. No fat people.
My sister and brother live in very wealthy areas. When they come home to visit me they cannot get over the number of fat people.
wright = weight
“Blacks are fattest”
So much for being po’.
I remember when I was in high school, few high school kids were overweight. Most of us were string beans.
Not today.
Evil.
The US has the fattest poor people in history.
And the richest
How many $$hundreds millions did the CDC spend on this bit of obviousness?
Most notably, non-Hispanic Asian Americans consistently and overwhelmingly had the lowest rates of obesity, with only 18% and 17% of Asian men and women having a BMI over 30 in the most recent survey period.
On the other hand, Mexican American adults had some of the highest rates, with 51% of men and 50% of women with obesity. Similarly, 41% of non-Hispanic Black men had obesity, as did 57% of Black adult women.
The Dutch.
Actually, if you talk to docs treating Metabolic Syndrome, there are a LOT of skinny ‘Asians’ who have high fasting insulin/Metabolic Syndrome. Just because you are “skinny”, you can be well on your way to T2D. Once Asians start eating an “American” diet, all heck breaks loose.
Here’s the backup:
Diabetes and Asian Americans
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/spotlights/diabetes-asian-americans.html
Nationwide, as many as 1 in 4 people who have diabetes don’t know they have it. But for Asian Americans, that number is higher—around 2 in 5. Why aren’t more getting diagnosed?
Looks Can Be Deceiving
Body weight plays a big part. Being overweight is a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes, but most Asian Americans aren’t overweight and so may not seem to be at risk (their doctors may not think they are either!).
But people of Asian descent have less muscle and more fat than other groups and often develop diabetes at a younger age and lower body weight. That extra body fat tends to be in the belly (visceral fat). This isn’t the “inch you can pinch,” the fat stored just under the skin. Visceral fat is out of sight, wrapped around organs deep in the body. You can’t tell how much visceral fat someone has by just looking at them.
Visceral fat is also sometimes known as “active” fat because it drives certain processes in the body that can increase the risk for heart disease, stroke, and other serious health conditions. Everybody has some visceral fat, but having too much is a major risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes.
Most health professionals rely on BMI, or body mass index, to assess whether their patients are overweight or obese (BMI of 25 or greater), which suggests they have excess visceral fat. All adults who are overweight should talk to their doctor about getting tested for type 2 diabetes. Like high blood pressure, diabetes often starts silently, so a blood sugar test is needed to know for sure if someone has the condition.
But the standard BMI classification doesn’t catch Asian Americans who are in the normal healthy weight range (18.5 to 24.9) but may have too much visceral fat and already be at risk for type 2 diabetes. Researchers are now suggesting that people of Asian heritage get tested for high blood sugar if their BMI is 23 or greater. Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed, but only if people know they’re at risk and can take action!
So, looks like Texas isn’t as sexy as they make themselves to be.
Neither is D.C. as fat as it should be (full of blacks).
Something like that.... obese is a better word.
It’s those wooden shoes.
A combination of factors: cultural -- high carb diets, socially -- fewer working in high-exercise jobs, and personal -- low impulse control.
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