The world is fat, but Americans tip the scales. The U.S. currently leads the rest of the developed world in terms of adult obesity rates and trails only Mexico in terms of overall overweight populations. Currently, 68 percent of American adults are overweight or obese with a BMI ranging from 25.0 to 29.9 and 34 percent of the population is strictly obese with a BMI starting at 30.0.
Obese and overweight populations are at risk for numerous health problems from heart disease and high blood pressure to stroke and cancer. Studies have also found that an obese person's life expectancy is cut short anywhere between 8 and 10 years when compared to the life expectancy of a person with a more normal weight.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 70 percent of American adults aged 20 and older are either overweight or obese with the average weights for adult men and women at 194.7 pounds and 164.7 pounds respectively. But it's not only American adults who are seeing growing waistlines. Seventeen percent of children and teens aged two to 19-years-old are considered obese in the United States, and studies show that a high percentage of obese children and adolescents grow up to be obese adults.
Despite the already high numbers, overweight and obesity rates are projected to rise. The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) projects that within a decade, three out of four Americans will be considered overweight or obese.
Most obese states in the U.S.:
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Rock Jameson said on 21 Monday 2011 pm31 12:40 pm: It is pretty clear that rising healthcare costs are directly correlated to rising obesity rates. People should be free to eat whatever they choose, however the government should do it's job and create disincentives for this kind of behavior because ultimately we all end up footing the bill. The argument goes "It is my body and what I eat is none of your concern." Well it becomes my concern when you end up in the hospital with clogged arteries at 40 years old and I pay for it in higher healthcare premiums and higher payments to Medicare. This issue starts at the grade school level and if we really want to affect change the effort needs to start there. Schools should not be allowed to feed our children high calorie, high fat, low nutritional value crap just because Kraft and GeneralMills spend millions of dollars a year on lobbying in Washington. |
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Most overweight states in the U.S.:
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Rock Jameson said on 21 Monday 2011 pm31 12:40 pm: It is pretty clear that rising healthcare costs are directly correlated to rising obesity rates. People should be free to eat whatever they choose, however the government should do it's job and create disincentives for this kind of behavior because ultimately we all end up footing the bill. The argument goes "It is my body and what I eat is none of your concern." Well it becomes my concern when you end up in the hospital with clogged arteries at 40 years old and I pay for it in higher healthcare premiums and higher payments to Medicare. This issue starts at the grade school level and if we really want to affect change the effort needs to start there. Schools should not be allowed to feed our children high calorie, high fat, low nutritional value crap just because Kraft and GeneralMills spend millions of dollars a year on lobbying in Washington. |
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U.S. counties with the highest rate of adult obesity:
1. Greene, AL: 43.5 percent
2. Holmes, MS: 42.3 percent
3. Humphreys, MS: 41.6 percent
4. Jefferson, MS: 41.6 percent
5. Dallas, AL: 41.2 percent
6. Tunica, MS: 41.1 percent
7. Claiborne, MS: 40.8 percent
8. Lowndes, AL: 40.3 percent
9. Macon, AL: 40.2 percent
10. Perry, AL: 40.2 percent
Compare the 10 U.S. counties with the highest rates of obesity.
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Too much fast food is too cheap and too easy to obtain.
If parents and school systems worked together to create more time and exercise, we would probably greatly reduce the amount of overweight kids we see today. Adults ought to try to adhere to the sme rule of thinking. It's just plain healthy!
It's been proven time and again.
Generational poverty is pretty set in the way
they cook and eat so it's more habit and convenience.
Anyone willing can do a simple personal experiment to see if it's just total calories or if the protein, carbs, and fat intake distribution "weighs" in the balance.
I.e., for 3 months, just eat as much of whatever you like, EXCEPT completely avoid ultra-high glycemic index foods, i.e., ALL natural metabolizeable SUGARS: fructose (fruit), sucrose (table sugar, honey, molasses, corn syrup, etc.) and see what happens.
That means, e.g., NO SUGARED SODA POP or your usual sugared cereals.
For most people, you'll find that
a) Your weight will start dropping SCARY FAST!
b) It's INITIALLY hard to do, not because you get ravenous (you won't), but because nearly all grocery store shelf products load up needlessly on sugar (mostly corn syrup, to get you to buy more of it). And because you'll spend much time reading fine print on labels. Even if you head straight to the health/organic foods section, you'll find many products loaded with sugar. (Ever notice that lots of vegan/health food types aren't exactly slim?)
c) A lot of people quit this (diabetic's) diet quickly, due to their sweets addiction. Such people should try artificial sweeteners, until they adjust to the natural, low sweets diet of pre-20th century humans.
To maintain equilibrium, calories in = calories out.
Let’s do the math and a projection.
If you increase your caloric content by a mere 100 calories a day for 5 years… 100 calories x 365 days a year x 5 years = 182500 extra calories / 3500 cal/pound = 52 extra pounds… in 5 years.
104 lb. weight gain over 10 years.
Remember your high school reunion?
That is how people became obese.
100 calories = a banana, half a candy bar, one beer, one glass of wine, one piece of toast with butter, half a mickeydee’s hamburger.
One pound of body fat = 3500 calories.
One pound of fat = 10 warm cups of coco.
One pound of fat = 10 candy bars.
One pound of fat = 10 days of 2-3 beers after work.
One pound of fat = 10 mickeydee's hamburgers.
Whenever there is a lifestyle change, like the weather getting colder and folks are drinking that extra cup of coco or a new job where there are only junk food vending machines, those extra calories count and they add up.
http://www.medicalmoment.org/_content/helpyourself/jan06/382412.asp
Moderate physical activities: cal/hour
Hiking 350
Dancing 265
Golf (walking and carrying clubs) 265
Light gardening/yardwork 236
Bicycling (less than 10 mph) 236
Walking (3 ½ miles per hour) 224
Weight training (light workout) 177
Now the process of losing wgt can be difficult (simple doesn't mean easy) and many factors can complicate the process. But fundamentally this is a basic issue of thermodynamics.
Why do you suppose?
The state goes from elevations of about 5000ft to sea level.
Carbs making up 50%+ of your daily calories makes you fat, unless you perpetually maintain a caloric deficit, and then you get skinny-fat.
http://www.free-atkins-diet.com/Atkins-Nutritional-Approach.html
Doctor Atkins says:
Our bodies burn both fat and carbohydrates for energy, but carbs are used first. If you drastically limit carbohydrate intake and associate with high protein and fat, the body would burn more fat. So you will naturally lose weight by burning stored body fat and won’t be hungry. This is the area in which this low carb diet far surpasses most other diet programs.
Try - http://www.free-atkins-diet.com/Atkins-Nutritional-Approach.html
Carbs are what your body uses for energy. If you don't burn that energy it gets stored as fat. Avoiding carbs is just a tactic to reduce calorie consumption, which can be achieved in many different ways that don't involve an unhealthy over-consumption of meat.
Instead just try a balanced diet heavy in green vegetables, a small portion of lean meat, and not too many carbs. The bigger concern than the carbs is the portion control. People don't need nearly as much food as they think they do.
Carbs are high-output fuel. Anaerobic activity burns carbs. Sprinting, boxing, lifting heavy-weights, exe.
The other 90%+ of your life, fat is going to be the preferential energy supply.
If you eat a ton of carbs, your body will start using carbs as a fuel source at lower level of excretion (like when you start to job at a 6min mile pace), but if you're using carbs as your primary food sources you're 1) eating the carbs which 2) replenishes glycogen stores in muscle and liver (which you tap into during anaerobic activity) then 3) when you glycogen stores are full (as they are for most Americans, since most don't participate in daily intense, anaerobic activity, or restrict their carb intake) the carb gets converted into body fat... from there, and only from there, can it fuel your lower energy level activities...