Posted on 09/19/2013 12:37:13 AM PDT by neverdem
After three decades of increases, adult obesity rates remained level in every state except for one, Arkansas, in the past year, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2013, a report from the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The full report is available here. Visit http://www.FasinFat.org/ for interactives, graphs, charts and obesity rates for the states and nation going back decades.
Thirteen states now have adult obesity rates above 30 percent, 41 states have rates of at least 25 percent, and every state is above 20 percent, according to the report. In 1980, no state was above 15 percent; in 1991, no state was above 20 percent; in 2000, no state was above 25 percent; in 2007, only Mississippi was above 30 percent.*
Since 2005, there has been some evidence that the rate of increase has been slowing. In 2005, every state but one experienced an increase in obesity rates; in 2008, rates increased in 37 states; in 2010, rates increased in 28 states; and in 2011, rates increased in 16 states.*
“While stable rates of adult obesity may signal prevention efforts are starting to yield some results, the rates remain extremely high,” said Jeffrey Levi, PhD, executive director of TFAH. “Even if the nation holds steady at the current rates, Baby Boomers—who are aging into obesity-related illnesses—and the rapidly rising numbers of extremely obese Americans are already translating into a cost crisis for the healthcare system and Medicare.”
Levi added, “In order to decrease obesity and related costs, we must ensure that policies at every level support healthy choices, and we must focus investments on prevention.”
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I wish I knew the answer. But it seems to me the more you tell someone not to do something, the more they want to do it. Plus, the food networks sure figure in there somehow, I think.
Idiot Boomers
I’m ANG, I’m 41, I’m 68” and 190 lb. I recently scored a 98% on my latest PT test running a 7:15 / mile.
According to the BMI I’m not just overweight, I’m obese. Yet, it’s nearly impossible for someone my age to score better on their eval. So to say the data is skewed in a veey misleading way is a understatement in my opinion.
It’s like saying everyone who makes less than $90,000 a year is in poverty.
> I wish I knew the answer.
Perhaps the coming economic crash will do at least these people some good. When EBT runs dry, they will have to get up off the couch and do something or starve. That should slim some of them them down a bit, I imagine. Call it govmint weight loss program. ‘It’s for the children.’ Or maybe I just don’t care about their fatness. I must be heartless, but my kids eat right, and that’s all I do care about.
Apologies to the good ones, few that you are.
End welfare,food stamps and extended unemployment checks would significantly help. This would eliminate lard ass syndrome which using Rep Hank Johnson’s Guam may tip over theory, the US would weigh less, the land mass would rise significantly lowering sea levels which would prove once in for all sea level rise is man made.
The obvious solution is to have the government quit paying for health care.
The powers to tax and control are to government as heroin and cocaine to drug addicts.
I do know:
1. Stop with the hormonization of the food supply. You think those hormones used to fatten the beef disappear magically at hoof or the udder?
2. Use cane sugar for sweetening and not ethanol. Corn syrup is not an acceptable substitute.
3. CANOLA not good for the human body either.
Unfortunately for both (and the rest of us), as resistance is developed, they go on to seek stronger highs, either from larger doses or more and different ways to satiate their addictions. Sooner or later, they overdo it.
I love food, I love the raw ingredients, and I have made it my business to understand them. I reject a lot of dogma, and am a believer in enjoying food with passion and portion control.
Prepare a meal, sample as you cook, and you won't go to the table in a mindlessly ravenous state. And your family will learn good things, too.
I believe that the problem is not the food show, that are showing people how to enjoy food by preparing it. It is not PC attitudes. The problem is a lack of *enjoyment*--of real, authentic pleasure in food.
I completely agree and have altered my family’s diet as uch. We don’t eat anything labeled as health food, meaning anything labeled lw-fat, fat-free, low-cal, sugar-free, etc.
I must stipulate though that this is a personal choice and should remain so. Just like I ignore Big Gov’s food pyramid scheme that Mooch pushes, I don’t think that my plan should be pushed either. Then again if I’m paying for the gibsmedats knee replacements and diabetes meds maybe I should . . .
What is the pro-Democrat purpose of this article? Set us up for medical rationing based on weight ... food rationing ... could be other points.
Obama is a bigger threat than an extra Cheeseburger.
So what may I ask is the generation you represent!!
I am having trouble reading through the first paragraph/incredibly long run-on sentence! ;) Just shaking my head that someone thought they should just keep adding commas and clauses. GI am glad that I am not reading it out loud! (I’d like to add, my first grammar grumble in 12 years of freeping, so don’t all pile on, please!)
This is the kind of article that sucks people into the elitist mindset. Ah yes, the collective is fat and we must take measures to thin the collective. Since when is my weight the government’s business? How much taxpayer money was wasted to collect this data? I believe the purpose of articles like this is to create de facto acceptance of the premise that since government is paying for your health care, it has a responsibility to stick its nose any where it sees fit. Obesity now becomes the “problem” we are supposed to “solve” in the spirit of Michael Bloomberg. We must all become little Bloombergs and throw our two cents worth into the discussion.
Genuine public health threats like homosexually transmitted HIV we are not supposed to talk about, but wringing our hands over our neighbors weight, now that’s where it’s at. The left is insidious and this an example of how they work.
Government approaches the cost issue as if it can be solved by a series of rules. The correct approach is the free market. When fat people pay more for health care, they’ll have an incentive to drop the weight. Right now they’re free riders for the most part.
The cost aspect of healthcare is scarcity. The market always cures scarcity. It is the government that causes shortages.
Nearly all of America’s problems can be solved via the Commerce Clause. States, counties and localities cannot impede interstate trade which is to be absolutely free within America’s borders. Break these mercantilists and you liberate 300 million people.
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