"If you want to look thin, you hang out with fat people!"
Posted on 09/19/2021 7:12:54 PM PDT by bitt
America’s underlying pandemic is getting worse.
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) out Wednesday shows the number of states with high obesity rates nearly doubled in the course of two years, with at least 35 percent of residents in 16 states consisting of adults with obesity in 2020. The number of states is up from a dozen in 2019, and nine in 2018.
States added last year include Delaware, Iowa, Ohio, and Texas, each now home to a population where more than a third of people are obese. States that had already reached that benchmark by 2019 include Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
The map below from the CDC outlines the prevalence of obesity based on self-reported data of U.S. adults, with obesity defined as having a BMI of 30.0 or higher. Those with a BMI between 25.0 and 30 are considered overweight.
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I’ve seen whole families of fireplug shaped Mexicans. The kids are the saddest.
They go for walks at their peril, past the bad dogs, drug houses, NIMBYs and convicts on the prowl.
Seems to me, we're hell-bent on achieving the worst of both worlds.
Me too, and I’m 6’2”… #;^)
It wasn’t Cassius’s thinking that got him into trouble, it was his jealousy and treacherous thinking.
It’s from all those stay at home jpbs, eating twinkles and snacking as they sit behind their computers all day.
While I wish I was in better shape, I do feel better about myself when I go to Sam’s and Costco and look at all the fatties buying in bulk. Makes me feel downright svelte.
"If you want to look thin, you hang out with fat people!"
Flipping thru channels last night my wife was stuck on the E! network Emmy Red Carpets. 3 sofa hostesses, One rather large Black woman must have been hoyer lifted onto the couch.
If we were serious about the virus and people’s health, we would see as many commercials about how obesity can kill as we do with smoking.
I live in California. Except for the ones I see mowing yards....they’re all fireplug shaped.
“Our richest people are the most likely to be thin and our poorest the most likely to be obese.”
That seems counter-intuitive to me, which suggests one or more unknown or overlooked factors involved in fattitude.
As an amateur flabologist, I think there are probably many factors that lead to this aspect of rich/poor fattitude.
Cheap food is now the most fattening. The amount of sustained physical exertion required in the workforce is generally lower than it has ever been in history. The rich have more disposable time to exercise, while the cheapest and quickest recreation available is passive screen entertainment. This is all combined with the rise of the welfare state. It really is like some sci-fi dystopia from the 40s or something.
Fregards
“This is all combined with the rise of the welfare state. It really is like some sci-fi dystopia from the 40s or something.”
I think it’s a bio-terrorism attack.
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