31 States Record Increases in Adult Obesity

HealthDay News by way of Forbes ^ | 29AUG06 | HealthDay News

[ChiMark]

I'll eat to that!

[Just A Nobody]

Didn't read the crap.

I've been a little busy reading this..... SUV Driver Runs Over 15 People

And this..... Carter Agrees to Hold Talks With Khatami

No other comment.

[Marius3188]

At some point I would like to see a study on the use of growth hormones in our food products and the results on the human body.

I dunno, but since the incorporation of GH into our food chain, I think our population has gotten more obese. Of course, it's also our bad food habits, and physical inactivity that contributes to that.

It just seems that females these days develop sooner as well as males. Call be a loon, but I think their is a correlation.

[Bushwacker777]

You know, ever since the Simpsons came on TV people have been gaining weight in the USA.

Please, correlation does not prove causation.

Food is cheap in the USA -- it's expensive in Europe dueto heavy VAT taxes. Order a dinner in Scandinavia and you'll still be hungry afterwards, order one in the USA for half the cost and you'll have leftovers for lunch.

There are many reasons for obesity in the USA. In the 1960s when a kid wanted chips he had to share the bag with his three brothers and sisters. Nowadays he's likely to have no brothers and sisters, or just have one. Do the math -- no wonder kids from larger religious families tend to be thinner (take a trip to Utah and you'll see that).

Also, less people are exercising than in the 1970s. On top of that we are an aging society and old people are generally more prone to wieght prblems. And on the issue of class people tend to eat more when they are poor because they are getting massive amounts of food stamps, don't belong to exercise centers, have lower views of themselves and may live in areas you don't want to go jogging in.

[staytrue]

good speculation on the hormones

cortical steriods are known to lead to weight gain in fat.

[Jeff Chandler]

I'm with you. We eat too much and exercise too little. We don't even have to get up to change the channels. A fast food soft drink once was 8 oz, and you paid for refills. Mothers prepared fresh food for the family. Now everyone gets take out or goes out to eat every meal.

[CheyennePress]

Growth hormone is just a protein. It's degraded in your stomach. No harm at all.

Estrogen is another story, though. It could potentially have that effect.

I personally blame it on a sedentary lifestyle and diet, though. Invariably, those who are fat aren't lifting or jogging or rowing. Those who do such aren't.

[paudio]

There used to be an organization called "Size Acceptance Movement". I wonder what happened to them.

[etlib]

The report, titled F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing America, 2006, was released Tuesday and is the third in a series of annual reports by the trust detailing state obesity rates as well as the effectiveness of government policies to fight the problem.

Just more excuses for the government to run our lives.

[DakotaRed]

Rush was talking about this report this morning. It seems the majority of obesity is amongst the poorer people with he wealthy have the least.

Logical conclusion? Government food programs are making poor people fat! We feed them too much.

Argue with Rush, he said it. Obesity & Liberalism

[EVO X]

Instead of smoking themselves to death, people are eating themselves to death. I put on 20+ lbs after I quite smoking. Loosing it required quite a bit of effort.

[Bogtrotter52]

It's a big problem, that's for sure, but for the most part self correcting. Until recently I wieghed 230 lbs. I'm 6 ft and 54 years old. Over the past year I lost 70 lbs primarily by cutting out soda and bread from my diet entirely. The funny thing is I am also a paraplegic so except for the exercise from pushing a chair around (which ain't much) it was all from controlling intake.

[familyop]

"On top of that we are an aging society and old people are generally more prone to wieght prblems. And on the issue of class people tend to eat more when they are poor because they are getting massive amounts of food stamps, don't belong to exercise centers, have lower views of themselves and may live in areas you don't want to go jogging in."

IMO, vanity (including self-consciousness about appearances) and laziness might be the worst enemies of our health. There are many things that one can do without conventional exercise equipment. Gardens can be grown in any climate, given enough earth in which to do so (try over 9,000 feet elev. and ~ 12 inches of yearly precipitation with occasional summer snows). Healthy, basic food ingredients can be purchased once per month for less cost in large packages. We can avoid refined sugar and consume less dairy/meat fat.

As for rough neighborhoods...yes. Residential and business urbanization is an unnecessary and man-made problem resulting from selfishness on the part of many.

Most of the people in my area are not poor at all, but they don't travel in their own yards without motorized transportation.

[weegee]

IF you believe that men and women should weigh exactly the same.

IF you believe that fat and muscle are of "equal worth" in body composition.

[weegee]

The PC Nazis lined them up against the wall when no one was looking.

[familyop]

...way to go and good work! It helps to lift with the arms (in sets) and to have some kind of overhead bar to pull on in sets, but one needs to progress slowly enough to avoid tendonitis in shoulders. Abdominal flexes in sets (if doable) also helps to avoid back problems.

[Jaysun]

At some point I would like to see a study on the use of growth hormones in our food products and the results on the human body.

I dunno, but since the incorporation of GH into our food chain, I think our population has gotten more obese. Of course, it's also our bad food habits, and physical inactivity that contributes to that.

It just seems that females these days develop sooner as well as males. Call be a loon, but I think their is a correlation.

It's the SOY baby, it's in everything. Soy lecithin makes for huge busty kids - no matter what the sex.

[CheyennePress]

And yes, interestingly, soy does raise estrogen levels, as well. Though I doubt that's what is causing this... ;)

[Jaysun]

And yes, interestingly, soy does raise estrogen levels, as well. Though I doubt that's what is causing this... ;)

There might be something to it. Truth be known the increase in obesity and diabetes fits nicely with the "low fat" diet craze. It's idiotic, really. We think that fat flows through our veins and clogs our hearts. Nothing else works that way. We don't have bits of carrot and lettuce clogging up our tickers. And those that are 90 or older today (and there are a lot of them) ate fruit so rarely that it was considered a thoughtful Christmas gift.

I'm sticking with what works. Those in my family live to be a ripe old age, and my great grandfather always says, "Don't forget your lard boy, gotta get your lard." He says it tongue in cheek, but he's 103 so he says everything tongue in cheek.

We'll see the folly in the idea that fat = evil sooner or later. Hopefully before Alzheimer's, heart disease, and diabetes becomes the norm.