Posted on 06/29/2010 11:38:36 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
TUESDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) -- Americans are continuing to get fat, with obesity rates nudging upwards in 28 states over the past year, a new report shows.
"More than two-thirds of states now have adult obesity rates above 25 percent," Jeff Levi, executive director of the Trust for America's Health, said during a Tuesday news conference. "Back in 1991, not that long ago, not a single state had an obesity rate above 20 percent. There's been a dramatic change in a relatively short period."
"Obesity is one of the biggest public health crises in the country," Levi added. "Rising rates of obesity over past decades is one of the major factors behind skyrocketing health care costs in the U.S., one-quarter of which are related to obesity."
Mississippi weighed in for the sixth year in a row as the fattest state, with 33.8 percent of its adults obese, while Alabama and Tennessee tied for second (31.6 percent). The other top 10, also concentrated in the south, were West Virginia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arkansas, South Carolina and Michigan tying with North Carolina for 10th place (29.4 percent).
Michigan was the only state in the top 11 not in the South, an anomaly perhaps explained by the state's economy.
"Michigan certainly has been very hard hit, not just in the recent recession, but in the last decade or so," Levi explained.
And, as the report also shows, income is a major driver of the obesity epidemic. More than 35 percent of adults bringing in less than $15,000 a year were obese, vs. only 24.5 percent in the over-$50,000 income bracket.
The healthiest states in terms of weight were congregated in the Northeast and West.
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Where exactly are they getting this data from? Is some government agency going around weighing people at gunpoint? Are physicians releasing patient weights without their consent?
.pdf file with a lot of info too - 2MB
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2010/Obesity2010Report.pdf
Speaking of comfort food, Friendly’s is introducing a new hamburger. It’s a hamburger with lettuce, tomato, and onion... with two grilled cheese sandwiches as buns. Eat like an American! It has 1160 calories, 89 grams of fat, 180 mg of cholesterol. That’s a tall glass of awesome!
They can’t have that Athletic Club Membership on unemployment, huh! Soon the government will run out of our money too, then...
And I got mocked for wanting to avoid the food like substances they sell in grocery stores. You are what you eat, sounds stupid, but that’s it.
Since government can define obesity and make changes it needs to report what it wants —
no one can trust all this stuff.
The only reason so many people are getting obese (if that’s true) is that there is so much nutritious, cheap food out there and a concurrent lack of necessary physical activity.
This is hugh and series news!
Don’t worry. Obama is shipping free P90X dvd’s to everybody. They’ll make good coasters.
I live in Colorado, exercising out here is huge. Hiking, jogging, bicycling, cross country & downhill skiing, mountain climbing (our mailman has climbed all 54 of Colorado's 14 thousand foot plus mountains), etc., etc.. I swim laps in a 50 meter Olympic size pool most mornings. Remember all this exercising is occurs at a mile high, or higher, altitude. You are burning up calories big time.
The Government has to do something!
This cannot stand!
I’ve got a ham curing in marinade and ready to go on the smoker in about an hour.
Will blend up a big icy pitcher of scratch margaritas around 5:00 and have friends over for dinner and drinks on the front porch.
I plan to arrive in heaven with a highball in one hand, a fat Partaga in the other, body totally shot out, shouting “Woooooeeeee, that was some ride!”
It seems that although we are fatter overall now, we also, somewhat paradoxially, consider the “ideal” weight to be much skinnier than we did 40 years ago.
I’m working on losing weight at the moment. I’ve lost about 14 of the 75 I wish to lose, but even at that weight I’ll be “overweight” according to BMI. However, if I followed BMI guidelines, I’d look like a toothpick with a goatee.
Healthy food costs more.
As a small part of the obesity equation. The use of artificial ingredients. One name is Corn Syrup. Why does the gov’t insist on having high tariffs on cane sugar but pays incentives for corn syrup ? Studies mentioned that corn syrup is the worst kind of sweetener to use. And it is in just about all of our foods even to breads ! But yet, nothing is mentioned from the two different peanut galleries of the gov’t and the MSM.... The silence is deafening !
They want to start taking away food from people for ‘the common good’.
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