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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Bingo! That is the most sensible answer yet. It doesn't require "Fat Police" or government studies. My doctor and my premiums will tell me if I have a problem and everyone else can go about minding their own business.
Minding your own business, FRiend that’s a novel idea. If only the nation would put it into practice!
That's where Oprah and her all-star lineup on the O network come in...
“When fat people pay more for health care, they’ll have an incentive to drop the weight....”
Well okie dokie...but what about the gay’s — I would prefer to have 10 fat people than 10 gay’s with HIV/AIDS...which group is more harmful to society “The fat guy or the gay guy.”
Will premiums go up for the gay community — Much like smokers. I think that they should have to declare that they are gay so insurance companies know that they are in a higher risk group and can charge them accordingly. Until we address and treat the gay’s like we do smokers then I would suggest we leave fatty alone.
Americans are too cowardly to allow themselves the freedom and responsibility needed to fix these problems. I’m serious. Go find your typical soccer mom and tell her that tomorrow the AMA will no longer be allowed to control licensing of doctors or have any say in the number of medical schools or how many seats are available at them. Tell her that half or more of the drugs and devices that are now prescription only will be over the counter and people can buy them from any country they like. Tell them that 40 year old men who have had vasectomies will not be required to pay for insurance covering maternity and breast cancer. Tell her she might have to do a little hands on parenting and make sure her ADHD spawn aren’t drinking cough medicine because it might have codeine in it. She’ll geek on you. Nothing short of collapse is going to fix this.
I’m with you on that because that is a free market solution where there is an overlapping interest in public health. HIV/AIDs is communicable; obesity is not.
I am part of the generation that immediately followed “Turn on, tune in, drop out”, so I know the idiots well.
So do you include mommy and daddy in with us idiots??
You are now busy proving my point, that’s for sure.
As it so happens, my mommy and daddy immigrated from Europe.
You are correct. They’ve been indoctrinated by government schools to believe in government. Though their faith is misplaced, it is real. So what do you do?
Incrementally reetablish liberty. That’s why we need to control the Congress for a generation. We can start by dismantling the two DOEs and sending the money to the states as per capita grants while retaining the good things via legislation.
Secondly, we need to aggressively weild the Commmerce Clause to break up government monopolies. It’s easy, if you use the Constitution. Liberals needed nearly a century to put their plans in place. If we hold veto proof majorities for a generation we can do it in 10 years.
So what is your point?
Read the article that mentions yet another poor standard of the baby boomers. My point is - it was not likely something good would become of them.
What the hell are you talking about? What poor standards?
“Even if the nation holds steady at the current rates, Baby Boomers—who are aging into obesity-related illnesses
Baby boomers are causing problems because there are more of us. I guess you choose to ignore the fact that your generation and the next generation are using drugs at an higher rate and are presently on welfare at a higher rate and by the way your generation and the younger generation are the ones who got Barack Obama elected!
Oh sure if you say so LoL!
You have a serious bad case of denial.
But then again, you didn’t even have a clue of what this article mentioned.
BTW - thanks for Clinton and all the Weiners and Filthy Filners that followed his sick example.
There are a few good baby boomers. A few.
My condolences.
Born in the thirties, immigrated in the late 50’s, the last Mohicans you will ever hear of that came to America to work hard and contribute in return for a chance at the American Dream.
Condolences are for you.
BTW - thanks for Clinton and all the Weiners and Filthy Filners that followed his sick example.
You really are an easy mark...Wiener and Filner are your generation my friend!!! You are the textbook example of not seeing the forest for the trees....It's LIBERALS stupid!!!
My age (48) voted Romney. Your link is not scaled correctly to the topic we are having. And if you want to keep hiding behind the cheap excuse you have problems only because “there are more of us”, then shame on baby boomers for not getting to the polls to stop Obama.
Like I said, creepy baby boomers like Clinton set a bad standard, for all the rest following. That’s been the sad legacy of the baby boomers.
Now the boomers are leading the way on obesity in old age. Great just great.
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