Posted on 07/19/2007 12:16:31 PM PDT by TWohlford
The waistlines of Americans continue to grow and a new study estimates that by 2015, 75 percent of adults will be overweight and 41 percent will be obese.
The percentage of adults in the U.S. that were obese increased from 13 percent in the 1960s to 32 percent in 2004...
The proportion of overweight and obese Americans has increased at an average rate of 0.3 to 0.8 percentage points a year. Poorer Americans and some minority groups have been affected disproportionately...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
During the Clinton years, the CDC changed the rules on the height-weight charts, making millions overweight, or obese, overnight. David Satcher, Clinton's Surgeon General, stated, "The prevalence of overweight and obesity has nearly doubled among children and adolescents since 1980." Well, DUH! That happens when you change the rules!
The list of those overweight include Dubya Bush, Lance Armstrong — and in fact, most participants in the Tour De France. At 6' tall, I'm overweight too, in spite of the fact that my abs are flat, my butt is firm, and I ride 80+ miles in a day with no serious ill effects. At 210 pounds, I must lose 25 pounds to be "normal" (some will say I need many more changes than just weight loss to be "normal"). In fact, I'm only a few pounds from "obese".
OVERWEIGHT: Barry Bonds: 6'2": 228 lbs: 29 David Boreanaz: 6'2": 218 lbs: 28 Tom Brady: 6'4": 225 lbs: 27 President Bush: 5'11": 191 lbs: 26 George Clooney: 5'11": 211 lbs: 29 Nic Cage: 6'1": 210 lbs: 28 Matt Damon: 5'11": 187 lbs: 26 Johnny Depp: 5'7": 190 lbs: 27 David Duchovny: 6'0": 212 lbs: 29 Vin Diesel: 6'2": 200 lbs: 26 Cheryl Ford: 6'3": 215 lbs:27 Harrison Ford: 6'1": 218 lbs: 29 Brendan Fraser: 6'3": 234 lbs: 29 Richard Gere: 5'11": 187 lbs: 26 Ethan Hawke: 5'9": 172 lbs: 25 Hugh Jackman: 6'2": 210 lbs: 27 Lebron James: 6'8": 240 lbs: 26 Dale Jarrett: 6'2": 200 lbs: 26 Bobby Labonte: 5'9": 170 lbs: 25 Nick Lachey: 5'10": 180 lbs: 26 Karl Malone: 6'9": 259 lbs: 28 Dr. Phil McGraw: 6'4": 240 lbs: 29 Mark McGuire (playing weight): 6'5": 250 lbs: 30 Donovan McNabb: 6'3": 240 lbs: 30 Yao Ming: 7'6": 310 lbs: 27 Brad Pitt: 6'0": 203 lbs: 28 Keanu Reeves: 6'1": 223 lbs: 29 Cal Ripken: 6'4": 210 lbs: 27 Andy Roddick: 6'2": 197 lbs: 25 Will Smith: 6'2": 210 lbs: 27 Sammy Sosa: 6'0": 220 lbs: 30 Denzel Washington: 6'0": 199 lbs: 27 Bruce Willis: 6'0": 200 lbs: 29 Billy Zane: 6'2": 210 lbs: 27
OBESE: Tom Cruise: 5'7": 201 lbs: 31 Mel Gibson 5'9": 214 pounds: 32 Matt LeBlanc: 5'11": 218 lbs: 30 Steve McNair: 6'2": 235 lbs: 30 The Rock (Dwayne Johnson): 6'5": 275 lbs: 33 Arnold Schwarzenegger: 6'2": 257 lbs: 33 Sylvester Stallone: 5'9": 228 lbs: 34 Mike Tyson: 5'11 ½": fighting weight between 218-235: 30-32
I prefer the term “prosperous looking.”
We live in a country where “everybody has too much food” is the sort of problem we obsess over. Better than the alternative if you ask me......
So do I exercise or just wait?
50% of Europeans are already obese.
The standards by which men and women are judged “obese” are the same (no distinction between optimal weight for a man or woman).
The BMI is questionable science. But the MSM loves these “fat cat” stories about American sloth and gluttony.
At this rate, 123% will be overweight by 2030.
In the old days they called it pleasantly plump.
John Edwards encountered morbidly obese people on his “poverty” tour.
Plus these "statistics" are based on the "Mass-Body Index", or whatever it's called, where a normal guy who is 5'-9" and 163 is "overweight", because their table says he should only weight 160.
Looks like I beat the rush.
(My stats are just about identical to yours.)
Not to put too fine a point on it... but
Shouldn't that read
"25 Percent of U.S. Adults Will Be Underweight by 2015, Study Says"
Just asking.
It’s OK, we’ll have national health care by then!
"Why did you choose America?" opined the perky NPR newsbabe.
"I wanted to live in a country where the poor people were fat." says he.
This is the land where the Socialists whine about living conditions...and the poverty level usually includes a color TV and a good VCR. God Bless America, says I.
They should come over to my wife's family's house for a Sunday dinner. They can be overweight right now! (*)
TS
(*) Lord knows, they'll be plenty of food for everyone!
It is also a tool used by the left to fulfill their hidden agendas to debase America and make the citizens feel were no better than the rest of the world.
Another words being overweight instead of being looked upon as a sign of prosperity is looked down on as one more thing to dislike about ones country and self.
It’s like those stoopid PETA nuts saying a person cannot love the environment if they consume meat.
(picture of Michael Moore with man-boobs)
MY EYES! MY EYES!!! AUGHHHHH
This is wonderful news! It means that statistically, a quarter of me will be thin in eight years!
the women in rembrandt paintings don’t turn my propeller over.
i like 50-75 lbs less woman.
“Of course you know that this is an agenda by certain people to sell more diet plans and pills.”
Plus those who get government funding to work in obesity issues.
The BMI calculators on the Internet are always on pages belonging to diet plans, obesity clinic, bariatric surgery clinic, or a government agency that is seeking more funding.
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