https://www.democraticunderground.com/114219386Oh my.
elleng (82,030 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2018, 06:53 PM
American Adults Just Keep Getting Fatter.
American adults continue to put on the pounds. New data shows that nearly 40 percent of them were obese in 2015 and 2016, a sharp increase from a decade earlier, federal health officials reported Friday.
The prevalence of severe obesity in American adults is also rising, heightening their risks of developing heart disease, diabetes and various cancers. According to the latest data, published Friday in JAMA, 7.7 percent of American adults were severely obese in the same period.
The data — gathered in a large-scale federal survey that is considered the gold standard for health data — measured trends in obesity from 2015 and 2016 back to 2007 and 2008, when 5.7 percent of American adults were severely obese and 33.7 percent were obese. The survey counted people with a body mass index of 30 or more as obese, and those with a B.M.I. of 40 or more as severely obese. . .
The latest data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey comes at a time when the food industry is pushing back against stronger public health measures aimed at combating obesity.
In recent NAFTA negotiations, the Trump administration has proposed rules favored by major food companies that would limit the ability of the United States, Mexico and Canada to require prominent labels on packaged foods warning about the health risks of foods high in sugar and fat.
While the latest survey data doesn’t explain why Americans continue to get heavier, nutritionists and other experts cite lifestyle, genetics, and, most importantly, a poor diet as factors. Fast food sales in the United States rose 22.7 percent from 2012 to 2017, according to Euromonitor, while packaged food sales rose 8.8 percent.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/health/obesity-us-adults.html?
Throck (530 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2018, 08:27 PM
4. Adults?
Have you seen some of the high school kids?
You know, there is a solution to this, but the primitives don't want to talk about it.
Remove candy, snacks, prepared food, processed food, and convenience food from the list of groceries one can purchase using food stamps, restricting them to only basic foodstuffs such as flour, sugar, eggs, butter, milk, coffee, salt and pepper, fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, &c., &c., &c., and many Americans will thin up in short order.
Which reminds me; about a week or so ago, I came across a youtube of Bob Dylan singing at some sort of concert back in 1964, and while the music was okay, I was struck by the thinness of the people back then, and the neatness and politeness of Lamond's uncles. It's well worth watching just to see how we--those who were around back then--used to be.
https://youtu.be/OeP4FFr88SQ
