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All U.S. Adults Could Be Overweight in 40 Years (Reuters)
Reuters News ^ | 8 August 2008 | Reuters HEALTH

Posted on 08/06/2008 7:18:37 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)-If the trends of the past three decades continue, it's possible that every American adult could be overweight 40 years from now, a government-funded study projects.

The figure might sound alarming, or impossible, but researchers say that even if the actual rate never reaches the 100-percent mark, any upward movement is worrying; two-thirds of the population is already overweight....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: alarmist; america; bigbrother; calories; cholesterol; clueless; doublemac; exercise; fastfood; fatpigs; fatty; foodpolice; freedom; gluttony; health; lardass; obesity; oprah; porkers; pride; tubsoflard
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Reuters HEALTH story. For what it is worth.

Also, photo from article:


1 posted on 08/06/2008 7:18:38 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Yeah but, um, we could all be underweight too.

I’d love to get paid to predict all those things that we COULD be...


2 posted on 08/06/2008 7:23:46 PM PDT by craig_eddy (Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Does that mean that all U.S. adults could NOT be overweight in 40 Years?


3 posted on 08/06/2008 7:23:54 PM PDT by synbad600
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I think it will be 110% of the population. I hate when people project growth, it is just stupid.


4 posted on 08/06/2008 7:24:08 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: craig_eddy

Mediocre minds, and all that.


5 posted on 08/06/2008 7:25:02 PM PDT by synbad600
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To: synbad600

good point


6 posted on 08/06/2008 7:25:12 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Men Who Died in Wars For Our Voting Rights Also Did So For The Right To Vote Indie-Conservative?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

dudn’t that turn your propeller over?


7 posted on 08/06/2008 7:25:18 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Broader social changes are needed as well, she said -- such as making communities more pedestrian-friendly so that people can walk regularly, or getting the food industry to offer healthier, calorie-conscious choices.

Another excuse to advance the socialist cause with more regulation. Note they don't provide their definition of overweight.

Fortunately I'll never become an adult.
8 posted on 08/06/2008 7:26:25 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: ken21

if you are referring to the photo, my guess is all three are/were Hilary supporters.


9 posted on 08/06/2008 7:26:58 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Men Who Died in Wars For Our Voting Rights Also Did So For The Right To Vote Indie-Conservative?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I will be 108 years old in 40 years. Doubt if I’ll be overweight then.


10 posted on 08/06/2008 7:27:36 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057569/posts

I saw the hottest chick in my high school at my last class reunion. She was almost as wide as she was tall.

When she was a teenager, she was absolutely smokin'. Wouldn't give me the time of day; I think she ran with wealthy college-age guys.

Now all her power is gone.

11 posted on 08/06/2008 7:29:08 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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I will be 108 years old in 40 years. Doubt if I’ll be overweight then.

I will only be 101. Just a young thing compared you.

12 posted on 08/06/2008 7:29:37 PM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

It appears that those 3 or 4 people walking in front of them are of normal weight....you just can’t see them too well...like an eclipse.


13 posted on 08/06/2008 7:31:24 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: synbad600

What it means is our food is to cheap. (Like gas, electricity, natural gas and health care were before liberals screwed them all up.)


14 posted on 08/06/2008 7:32:05 PM PDT by enduserindy (232 years and now we want to blow it?)
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To: Steely Tom

Sounds like a nice case of poetic justice.


15 posted on 08/06/2008 7:32:20 PM PDT by wastedyears (Show me your precious darlings, and I will crush them all)
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To: w1andsodidwe

I’ll be 62 in 40 years.


16 posted on 08/06/2008 7:32:52 PM PDT by wastedyears (Show me your precious darlings, and I will crush them all)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

This is sooooo stupid. All you got to do is say that a health weight is 240 pounds. Now most people are UNDERWEIGHT. See how simple that was?


17 posted on 08/06/2008 7:33:50 PM PDT by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

After an exhaustive review of the research literature, here’s the final
word on nutrition and health:

1. Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

2. Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

3. Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks
than us.

4. Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart
attacks than us.

5. Germans drink beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer
heart attacks than us.

CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently
what kills you. But don’t worry, your Government is trying to correct this
problem.


18 posted on 08/06/2008 7:33:56 PM PDT by tubebender (Why does a round pizza come in a square box?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

OK, then if we all inflate our tires to the proper pressure and lose weight we won’t need to drill for more oil.


19 posted on 08/06/2008 7:34:53 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina.***)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
"could be" overweight...

This is yet another example of something that hasn't even happened being turned into news.

Here's another one:

Meteor could hit planet tomorrow according to astronomers...

20 posted on 08/06/2008 7:34:58 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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