America’s obesity crisis appears more unstoppable than ever.
A troubling new report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that almost 40 percent of American adults and nearly 20 percent of adolescents are obese — the highest rates ever recorded for the U.S.
“It’s difficult to be optimistic at this point,” said Dr. Frank Hu, chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. “The trend of obesity has been steadily increasing in both children and adults despite many public health efforts to improve nutrition and physical activity.”
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The continued weight increase in the youngest Americans is especially worrisome for long-term health. One in five adolescents, ages 12–19; one in five kids, ages 6–11, and and one in ten preschoolers, ages 2–5 are considered obese, not just overweight.
Obesity is medically defined as having a body-mass index of more than 30. The findings on obese kids in the U.S. comes on top of this week’s World Health Organization report that childhood obesity is soaring around the world, increasing more than tenfold over the past four decades.
Overweight and obese children have a higher risk to stay obese and childhood obesity is linked to a higher chance of early death in adulthood.
Overall, 70.7 percent of Americans are either overweight or obese, meaning that an unhealthy weight has become the norm, with normal weight Americans — a BMI of less than 25 — now in the minority.
What the CDC report doesn’t reveal is why the obesity crisis continues to worsen. A recent study by epidemiologists at Georgia Southern University discovered that fewer Americans, particularly women, are trying to lose weight. Public health experts say that an unhealthy diet and the lack of exercise are still the two biggest culprits.
“There’s still a huge amount of cheap, accessible, highly processed food available everywhere almost anytime,” says Hu. “And despite people doing more recreational activity these days, the overall activity level, household activity and occupational activity has decreased in recent years.”
In addition to unhealthy foods and a sedentary lifestyle, there could be another possible reason for the increasing obesity rates: sleep deprivation. An estimated 50 million and 70 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders or sleep deprivation, according to the Institute of Medicine.
Inadequate sleep is a risk factor for childhood and adult obesity, says Hu. Sleep-deprived people may be too tired to exercise, take in more calories and may undergo hormones changes that control appetite.
The consequences of the obesity epidemic are devastating: High blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and stroke are not only killing millions of Americans annually — the obesity epidemic is also a humongous burden on the American health care system, making up $190 billion a year in weight-related medical bills.
We should probably encourage more smoking.
Yes! I am trying to find the “bad” news here, with obesity being the leading cause of death in the USA. If people want to weigh 300+ pounds and keel over at age 50, it doesn’t bother me in the least…..
I am not fat. I am drought and famine resistant!
HJS
They’re trying to make it out to be all willpower. If people just exercised and ate right they would lose weight. That’s bullshit. They government is still promoting a “food pyramid” with way too many grains and way too little fat – guaranteed to make it nearly impossible to lose weight. A large number of prescription drugs have weight gain as a listed side effect, especially the antidepressants which the doctors (who BTW still have virtually no education on diet) hand out like candy. The addition of fluoride to the water attacks the thyroid causing weight gain and lack of energy to exercise, no mention of that here. They also don’t address the issue of all of the zombifying screens that not only contribute to the lack of exercise but contribute to the lack of restful sleep as well. How about the fact that in most families both parents have to work to have the lifestyle that used to be available on one salary so the parents don’t have the time to garden and/or cook meals from scratch. They don’t know why so many people are obese? They’re not looking at the evidence that is plain as day.
I think “they” look at the evidence and are pleased.
I’m getting really cynical in my old age.
Annie and Gayle et al
I stopped taking MOST of my prescribed medicines period. The ones I continue to take are on an “as needed” basis now and no longer daily. I suspect the weight loss and health changes for the better I’ve experienced are as much related to that as to the daily walks and move toward “clean” eating.
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Yes, Maggie, you are messing up their whole program.
I am currently composing in my head the letter I am going to write to my health insurance co., who continues to remind me I need my flu shot and mammogram. Nope.
Gayle
Thanks for posting the info about ‘Butter Bob’, I have been following his method since 10/02, I started at 267 and weighed in last Monday at 258. I think I understand why there is an epidemic, it’s because there is some form of sugar in almost everything folks eat. When I started by day 2 I was having a massive meltdown from sugar cravings, my wife said drink some water and go to bed and it will pass, I did and woke up the next morning feeling ‘ok’ and have not had another bad one since. My blood pressure has come back down to ‘normal’ levels, the green LED’s light up next to the sys and dis parts of the display on my blood pressure machine, my blood sugar has dropped from the high to mid 20’s 125 to the low 100’s 104, so I am seeing my body respond to this diet really well so far. I really want to thank you for posting you article on Butter Bob and by doing so made me aware, for the first time in nearly 20 years I have reasonable hope of loosing weight.
You touched on it – sugar. It seems that the sugar industry makes the tobacco industry look like choir boys.
If you run an internet search, it is believed that over 70% of the products in the average supermarket have added sugars using over 60 names
It’s really simple. Don’t eat processed food and minimize your carbs, apart from fruits and vegetables….The 1979 food pyramid, based on fraudulent research, has been the most effective population control measure ever, except for all the medical costs foisted on the taxpayers.
Getting MSG and HFCS out of our food supply would probably go a long way toward reducing obesity.
NBC bullshit – fucking mainstream media shite for the zombies.
They don’t tell you the real reason for all the fat twats in USA is because all the yankee meat and dairy products are pumped up with growth hormones and shit like that because the average American cannot afford properly farmed, slow-growth organic meats where the animals have been fed non-gmo food.
They can afford to bomb other nations but cannot affort to feed their own human livestock without poisoning them. I suppose they do that shit so that all the welfare nignogs can eat their burgers too.
I was in a steak house once and asked where the steak came from – the waitress said USA.
I asked her if she wanted to fuckin’ poison me and immediately left. I wouldn’t touch that shit with a bargepole.
Unfortunately, the politician cunts pushed through CETA against the will of the people. Canada just as bad as USA in this respect.
So Canada meat is full of growth Hormones too?
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cloned animals
gmo foodstuffs
chlorine chickens
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So, after one month of “hard work” (debatable) of kitchen
update, (wallpaper off, many preps, prime, paint, and paint
redo, trim etc. I lost 10lbs. Cant’t work the 10h days and eat eat eat
at the same time. BMI = 19, considered too low for my age.
Winter is coming/I will gain my 10 lb.s back.
So what did I eat? Organic mixed grain cereal with good milk
and slivered almonds, 2 eggs and fried potatoes, or salmon/meat
from my farmer source with pasta-tomatoes-mushrooms,
piles of crackers with sliced turkey-butter below, organic tom
soup with lots of fresh parsley. Basic diet that, and an apple,
or a peach, or melon hunks. Also a slice of homemade fruit bread
with butter, handful of cashews and organic purple chips. I sneak
myself candy too…eg, 5 miniature tootsie rolls, or 2 squares
heath bar. I had some icecream too, natural/3 ingredients chocolate.
I very rarely have icecream, but I was craving it, and finished
the carton. Actually, that is what I usually eat anyway…but up
and down the ladder and so on, melted me down.
I don’t know why people are so darn fat, (former diabetic nurse)
it is a puzzle. I imagine people are eating non-food in abundance
and drinking soda instead of water. My psych nurse days have
taught me people get “addicted” to overeating and have NO portion
control. The key here is to pick a plate and bowl, and always use
those to “measure.” Further, foods like raw vegetables and green
salads have very few calories…add a simple dressing, a chicken breast,
and some fruit and cheese hunks…you have a great meal.
I am guessing all TBP people are of the best wt. for their circumstances.
They feed us corn and sugar as if they are ‘finishing cattle’ but can’t figure out what the problem is. LMAO.
The doctor said in right in front of the SO: “SUGAR FEEDS CANCER”. That’s why they used a radioactive glucose to find it in the full body scan.
It’s not rocket science-eat clean and exercise. I’m 66, weigh the same I’ve weighed for almost 40 years, don’t touch fast food, pop, chips, any of that shit. Eat lots of protein(grass finished beef, a variety of fish and chicken are my main sources along with a variety of plant proteins) and produce. Hit the gym at least 5 times a week to face the iron. Take a number of supplements(from LEF) and have been on TRT for 4 years. Have blood tests twice a year and other then for some kind of accident, I fucking intend to stay out of our “medical” system.(killed my daughter in 36 hours)
You eat stupid crap, you win stupid prizes.
“…despite many public health efforts…”- Bullshit! What efforts? The only effort that’s needed is for someone at the doctors office to tell these lardasses that the problem is they won’t control what they put in their piehole and the taxpayers aren’t going to foot the bill for it anymore until their weight is back to normal. Provide nutritional counseling ONLY on an Atkins style diet until that point. Have a nutritionist go to their home, open the cupboard and throw out all the garbage that is making them fatter even now.