primitives face high disability rates

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x76720

Oh my.

steven johnson  (1000+ posts)     Sat Nov-14-09 06:18 AM
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Baby boomers may face high disability rates -- obesity is a major factor

Baby boomer's obesity is putting a strain on joints, the cardiovascular system and their breathing. Research suggests that boomers will have more disability when they reach their seventies.

Time to cut out the super sized treats.

Americans entering their 70s today are experiencing more disabilities in old age than did the previous generation, researchers announced Thursday. The shift in health fortunes comes as a surprise and predicts future high disability rates for the baby boomers as well.

The study is the first to foretell the end of a two-decade trend in which people appeared to be functioning better in old age than those who came before, said lead author Teresa E. Seeman, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.

The oldest people in the survey had grown up with better nutrition and had better medical treatments, resulting in less disability, Seeman said. "The hope was, this was a portent of good things to come as this population got larger. But ours is the first data to suggest disability rates may be going up. If it's true, it certainly suggests the baby boomers, whatever health benefits they've enjoyed up until now, may not enjoy such a rosy older age."

Seeman and her colleagues compared data from two large national health and nutrition surveys, one conducted from 1988 to 1994 and another from 1999 to 2004. Among people 80 and older, the data showed improvements in disability rates over time, especially among women. There was no change in disability rates among people in their 70s. However, disability rates rose among people in their 60s.

A fat primitive, the only one at the bonfire, objects:

NWHarkness (1000+ posts)      Sat Nov-14-09 06:49 AM
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1. More anti-fat bullshit

The last acceptable prejudice rears it's head again.

"The oldest people in the survey had grown up with better nutrition and had BETTER MEDICAL TREATMENTS, resulting in less disability, Seeman said."

A fair conclusion would be that the nation's deteriorating health care system was to blame, but let's dump on the fatsos!

[Traveshamockery]

I'm pretty sure if I posted this at the DUmp, it would be deleted faster than DUmmies running from a job fair but this guy at Redstate has a really interesting theory about obesity in the US - possibly as a result of government intervention. 

http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2009/11/12/what-hath-big-government-wrought/

Here's a little snippet - go to the link for the rest.

Posted by Vladimir (Profile)
Thursday, November 12th at 6:00PM EST
26 Comments

When I was a kid (mid- to late-’60s), nightly TV news shows were everyone’s source of information. Alongside from the flickering bland-and-white coverage of the Vietnam war and protesting hippies, I distinctly remember stories that would be foreign to us in 2009: food prices.

Yes, food prices. Right there in the segment where today you’d expect to see updates on gasoline prices, you’d have David Brinkley or Walter Cronkite or Howard K. Smith used to report on the prices of beef, chicken, bread, milk or eggs.

Food was dear back then. About 1972, Big Government changed that, and thereby sewed the seeds of today’s “Health Care Crisis”. Let’s connect the dots.

[JohnnyReb]

The generation of my parents, some call them "The Greatest Generation", did manual labor. Todays generation, "The Baby Boomers", have done little physical anything, ergo being fat and lazy makes you sickly in old age.

Simple: DUmmies have never worked hard ....so they're sick.