Posted on 09/01/2017 12:13:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
While a third of American adults and one in six children are obese, a report Thursday suggests the rate of increase could be stabilizing in some states.
Citing statistics collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the report by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said West Virginia had the highest obesity rate at 37.7 percent. Mississippi was second at 37.3 percent and Alabama and Arkansas were tied for third at 35.7 percent.
The report says the adult obesity rate increased between 2015 and 2016 in Colorado, Minnesota, Washington and West Virginia, fell in Kansas, and was stable elsewhere. Colorado had the lowest rate, at 22.3 percent.
This is the first time in 14 years of conducting the annual report that any state's rate dropped, and rates of increases in other states have begun to slow, Trust for America's Health President and CEO John Auerbach said.
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Lol. No quite. More outdoor activities. Beautiful state for it.
... and hanging out at Walmart
I’m not exactly a prize either.
Just eat everything in moderation. An occasional cookie or small piece of cake isn’t going to kill you. Look at what is on your plate and put 1/2 of it back. Don’t use a dinner plate, use a luncheon plate. Drink plenty of water ( not beer, coffee, or diet soda). Exercise, really exercise. A slow stroll around the park doesn’t count. Get that heart pumping. I’ve lost 20 pounds since I retired. At 70 years old I am 5 ft. 4 in. and weight 106 pounds.
6’1” myself. Easy to lose the weight by nixing the carbs. Plus we are eating really well.
Blood chemistry is really good now too.
The late comedian Richard Jeni on the obesity epidemic in the US:
“One out of three Americans......weighs as much as the other two....”
Do the low card diet. 25 grams or less carb a day is the only thing to monitor. All the fat you want too.
You’ve nailed it!
At 73 I am six four barefoot, I weigh 240, my pants are size 36 waist and 34 length, my coat size is 52, I have the beginnings of a sixpack midriff, visible but not really defined. The bmi chart says I need to lose 52 pounds, that is absurd. Even if I add ten percent for what is certainly a large frame it still says I need to lose over 30 pounds. At age 68 I weighed 270, had a 54 inch chest and could curl 70 pound weights with one hand, young men looked at me in awe and told me they wanted to “grow up” to be like me. The BMI chart said I was “morbidly obese”.
For God’s sake. Look at the parents of most kids in LLWS. All fat. Americans are obese in record numbers. I don’t need a BMI chart to tell me that.
OK, you’ve aged and put on weight. So have I. And, you would be better off if you weighed less. So would I.
But, are we “beyond overweight?” I don’t think so.
Result: 1 in the normal BMI range. 5 were metely overweight. Everyone else was obese by these asinie standards. I realize they have more muscle than fat and I have more fat than muscle, but that gives you an idea.
I'm 6'2" and 255# and if I go to your average Wal-Mart, I'm going to look emaciated by comparison.
Clearly she has a crush on you and is hoping you’ll strip down for the scale.
when I go to Wal Mart and see those 400 pounders riding the electric carts I always wonder "which came first,the inability to walk or the 400 pounds?"
6’1” here, 180 pounds.
A nickname foreigners have for us is `Amerifats’. A few years and a little more than fifty pounds ago, I struggled with hypertension and hyperlipidemia. And got winded climbing a slight grade.
Gluttony and sloth are deadly sins. Drink more water, fatties. Exercise—get that blood flowing. Buy a stationary bike. Lift light weights, all things in moderation. Eat smaller portions & healthy snacks. I dropped several waist sizes. Now I can walk the four legs off my dog.
A lot of people fool themselves, thinking they are `a little overweight’ when they are actually either obese: corpulent or too much flabby tissue, or morbidly obese. That was me.
Just sayin’ ... if your laptop is almost level with your line of vision, put down the computer and go to the little room. Stand sideways, look in the mirror, and be honest with yourself. It isn’t easy at first but weight loss can be done. OK, lecture over.
[The weight charts are ridiculous. According to them, my 6’-2” body would need to be around 179 lbs to NOT be considered “overweight.” I’d look like a holocaust prisoner.]
When I was about 32 I weighed 189 at 6’ 3”. I looked like I could blow away.
I was a meter reader for the local utility and walked my brains out every day over all kinds of terrain. My waist was 32-33”. Was in great shape though as far as stamina.
Yup, it’s based on the faulty BMI, which isn’t legit for a lot of body frames - especially athletic. That said, there are a lot of overweight people in the US.
Folks, just look how healthy the Venezuelans are. Almost none of them are overweight. And that can happen for us if we just follow the Democraticalistical vision for the country.
I’m not surprised.
You’re just a little heavier than me at the same height. I’m sure you don’t have the “back boobs” that you see all over at Walmart. ;)
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