Colorado was the only state in 2007 with less than 20% adult obesity.
Happy Thanksgiving! Watch America get fatter by state over 25 years
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That could turn into a major disadvantage should we suffer a famine. On the other hand, our lungs and agility would allow us to descend to lower elevations and hunt the fat ones.
Oh so you dont like fat people huh? I bet your the poster boy for good looks and health arnt ya steve?
Are you new around here?
dude i was just kidding , i may comment once a year, but for the most part just read.
I think it’s CO2 induced. Tax it to the max and people will lose weight.
Here is a possible explanation for the obesity. Carbohydrates changed.
William R. Davis is a Milwaukee-based American cardiologist and author of health books known for his stance against so-called “modern wheat”, which he labels a “perfect, chronic poison”. His book Wheat Belly became a New York Times bestseller within a month of publication in 2011. The book states that all modern wheat, which Davis refers to as “Frankenwheat”, is toxic and addictive as many drugs, and makes you want to eat more food especially junk foods. On the Dr. Oz show interview, he opened with the statement “The Wheat of today, is nothing like the wheat of the 1960, 1950; that is the wheat that our moms or grandmothers had, so it has been changed. This new crop has implications for human health that were never been anticipated. So this is appropriate for nobody, no human, nobody in this audience, should be eating this modern creation of genetics research.”
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-9484/why-wheat-is-ruining-your-life-the-author-of-wheat-belly-explains.html
I thought “Nothing ventured, nothing gained”; an odd statement in view of the fact that it was loss I wanted, however……. ?
I am 71. On 25th October I weighed 282 lbs & this morning I weigh 257 lbs. At first, I was tormented with longings for a toasted bacon sandwich for breakfast for a while, but a large bowl of rocket leaves, grilled cherry tomatoes & fried onions & garlic, together with very crispy grilled bacon sprinkled all over, takes me about 25 minutes to finish & fuels me up until early afternoon.
I wanted results, so I also use the 2 & 5 regime as well as eliminating all traces of wheat from my diet. I put the weight on slowly over the last 20 years & I’m shedding it slowly. I’m aiming for 200 lbs by May 2014, then I shall be eligible for the repair of a leaking heart valve. The NHS won’t waste money on those who won’t help themselves & quite right too. I’d go lower but my excess skin would probably trip me up. ;<)
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/
I really don’t buy this “toxic wheat” and its cousin “high fructose corn syrup” as the source of all our obesity problem. The latter existed long before the country got bloated.
I think our issues lay more with the fact food has gotten cheaper (based on % of income to purchase it) in particular the easy to eat high-calorie pre-made stuff, demographic changes (i.e. Hispanics tend to be heavier than whites), and the fact that many physically demanding jobs are now automated.
Though there is IMHO something to the fact that you can lose weight by cutting back on sugar and carbs whilst eating more fat. I did that, reducing fruit, sugar, carbs and not worrying about my fat intake. I found out I ate much smaller portions. This coupled with nutritional supplements (they fixed by plateauing problem with the exercise) and exercise I have dropped 20+ lbs.
I’m 49 and when I was growing up, fat people were unusual. We had our fill of cokes, McDonalds, and Fried Chicken, yet most of us were not obese. The difference I see is people were more physically active back then. We had a lot of recess breaks when I was in school and we played outdoors after school when the weather was good. Even in recent years, I’ve noticed a drop off in participation in outdoor activities. Ten years ago I saw a lot more people mountain biking and hiking in the Sandia mountains as compared to the last few years. Everyone is inside tweeting, facebooking, playing video games and watching TV I guess, and parents are keeping their kids “safe” by not letting them outside. Surprise then that obesity rates are increasing. Another interesting aside is I saw recent articles in the NY TImes and WSJ indicating that sports times are actually dropping off, in other words young people today actually run slower than baby boomers did at the same age. The cause is the same I would conjecture.
Fat people were not unusual, discussing it was unusual. I am 70 and when I was a kid it was rare to see a woman over 50 who was not overweight (what we now call obese). Most of what we think we know about obesity was created in a fell swope in 1998 when the standards changed and by that change the numbers off people declared obese doubled without any weight gain.
That’s exactly where we’re headed with Obamacare…. More Bureaucrats … Less Surgeons, fewer Doctors…. Fewer actual treatments…
“Obesity” and a BMI > 30 are two different things. Admit it, everyone thinks of obesity as a 300 lb or more man or woman. Would you consider Mariah Carey to be obese? Most men would consider her to be “hot” but I bet the word “obese” never comes to mind. Every lineman in the NFL is “obese” and some grossly obese. The BMI as a measure of obesity is flawed and to simply label someone obese because they are BMI 30 is ludicrous. There are indeed a lot of obese people in the world. Most if not all truely obese people are obese for genetic reasons. Not because of HFCS or GMO or good carbs/bad carbs. In any 1st world country where food is readily available and physical labor is no longer a necessity to just survive people are free to gain weight within thier genetic predisposition to do so. Is it a good thing? Yes if you look like Mariah Carey and no if you look like Ruben Studdard. The difference is one is merely BMI > 30 while the other is “obese”. The choice to use the cuttoff of BMI > 30 was arbitrary and not based on science. That plus the fact that the BMI is less an effective measure of appropriate body weight for shorter people, athletic people or some ethnic groups. In fact the only value to BMI is it allows us to use one standard measure making the gathering and evaluating of the data easy. Think about that for a minute… We prefer a measurement that is easy in preference for one that is accurate or relevent.
What he said.
According to height and weight charts, I am obese. But then I weight lift, and have little fat. The ‘obese’ definition is shifty at best.
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