Three-Quarters of US Adults Are Now Overweight or Obese
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> Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to a sweeping new study. The findings have wide-reaching implications for the nation's health and medical costs as it faces a growing burden of weight-related diseases.
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> The study reveals the striking rise of obesity rates nationwide since 1990 -- when just over half of adults were overweight or obese -- and shows how more people are becoming overweight or obese at younger ages than in the past. Both conditions can raise the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, and shorten life expectancy.
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> The study's authors documented increases in the rates of overweight and obesity across ages. They were particularly alarmed by the steep rise among children, more than one in three of whom are now overweight or obese. Without aggressive intervention, they forecast, the number of overweight and obese people will continue to go up -- reaching nearly 260 million people in 2050.
Further reading : [1]Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss .
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08165-7
We're almost there! (Score:1)
I wonder how long until we get to 100%?
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This is America and we always give 110%
There goes my karma (Score:1)
Maybe we should make it ok to tease fat kids again? Or at least go back to the 80's concept that being fat was undesirable. Crazy, I know, but being incredibly overweight is actually a bad thing.
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Nah, have some of the latest ridiculousness to come out of academia -- fat studies. How Blackness intersects with Fatness.
Folks, you can't make this shit up. A whole line of study made up just like Black Studies or Genders Studies.
[1]https://www.thecentersquare.co... [thecentersquare.com]
This is where your $ goes to, America. Useless shit like this.
This is what academia does. Find the most ridiculous niche and build a whole career around it.
[1] https://www.thecentersquare.com/maryland/article_20b9ec0e-aa8f-11ef-abfa-7b9c69ba1e75.html
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How about we just let them play outside without the threat of the parents being arrested for it?
Not a coincidence (Score:2)
That this happens to be roughly the same proportion of Americans that lack quality access to transportation infrastructure. When every trip is a car trip, of course people don't get exercise.
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So you want to keep us in overpriced rentals that are associated with good public transport in a very few urban centers. You may be thin, but your retirement account is not with you but your landlords estate in rural america.
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Funny, I used my car -- a gasser -- to go to the store, buy me a weights set, and bring it home. I fit a 6 ft barbell into a mini.
Mehtinks you place way too much blame on the instrument (the car) and not the people who own them.
Oh, I should just live in a city and go to a gym full of gym rats, pilates addicts, and everyone judging you. Fuck that.
Can you imagine bringing home a 6 ft barbell and 135 pounds of iron plates in a bus? Train? You make me laugh.
I know how! (Score:2)
Telling people to lose weight and exercise hasn't accomplished its goal for the past 50 years. Clearly we just need to keep harping at them, and they'll lose weight!
Humans evolved as hunter/gatherers (Score:2)
And foods rich in carbohydrates & sugars were scarce and hard to come by, so the human body evolved to store those energy sources as fat to be burned later when needed, along comes modern civilization and mechanized agriculture that made an over supply of those resources so naturally people will get overweight much easier, people need to put down the fork and get more exercisej
MAHA (Score:1)
Can we please start by banning known unhealthy ingredients?
[1]https://legalinsurrection.com/... [legalinsurrection.com]
The European and Asian nations don't allow much of the crap permitted in American foods because they are unhealthy.
[1] https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/the-new-york-times-accidentally-admits-rfk-jr-is-correct-on-food-additives/
So What? (Score:1)
Typical American foods are tasty but fattening. Diet foods taste like blip, and few will force themselves to eat them; Andy in Foxtrot is a joke when she serves such food. And nobody has time for health clubs with more-than-eight-hour work days and televised sports on the weekends.
I am sure the authors want the State to intervene, but with the Trump in charge, that is never going to happen. In fact, there will be less intervention to make the food execs happy.
So why did the authors even bother?
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"Diet foods taste like blip,"
I actually quite like vegetables so speak for yourself. I don't know how you yanks can just eat nothing but tasteless meat, bread with way too much sugar and that yellow sticky gunk thats amusingly called cheese.
bad link (Score:2)
Link goes to /. story, not original article
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Look at who posted the article. Surprised?
The msmash script must be malfunctioning.
This isn't a Uniguely American thing, but it is. (Score:2)
Other nations are starting to have this issue as well but Americans have to be first in anything not good for them or the rest of the world.
1. Cheap, non nutritious foods are high profit margin and addictive. Corporations promote the hell out of them for this reason.
2. American society continuously gears itself towards convenience over health. The top complaint I hear about any town center is there is never enough parking. Campus? Never enough parking. We don't build around public transit and therefore
Yo Yo effect (Score:2)
I did some data analysis for an MD studying morbidly obese patients. They could lose weight via drugs/mental health intervention, but as soon as they got to a healthy weight and went of the treatment they would up at their old weight within a year to two. Their weight looked like a sine wave; and it wasn't just a dietary issue causing the obesity. Absent life long treatment, they struggled.
Change of obesity definition (Score:2)
Let me guess, 1990 was the year that the definition of what was considered "obese" was adjusted sharply downwards. Nobody's weight actually changed but, suddenly you might be redefined as obese overnight. It was a media sensation!
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> You can run, you can walk, you can bike, but nothing will shed pounds like working out.
That turns out not to be the case. Certainly exercise is valuable; it will keep or make you healthy. But to lose weight - or even to stop gaining weight - you must eat right.
Luckily, that's very simple indeed. Eat plenty of fresh, fatty meat from animals that lived out of doors on grass or in woodlands. If you like, eat also eggs, fish, poultry, green leafy vegetables and a little fruit. Dairy is probably good, but some scientists disagree. Avoid carbohydrates like the plague.
That's it.
The main reason for t
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It doesn't matter what you eat if you consume more than your body uses. In other words eat less and move around more.
I also blame all this technology, everyone sits around now. Instead of walking down to the corner store to get food you have it delivered. You work from home? For most that means eating snacks all day while not having to go somewhere to work which involves walking even if you drive/ride.
Environment plays a big part of health, our current living environment is to sit around all day and h
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It does matter. Resistance training (weights, bands, machines) burn fat, and plenty of it.
The rest are there to make your cardio better. But if you want to melt fat -- resistance is the only sane choice.
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It does matter what you eat, because your body doesn't really have an evolutionary history to feel the right amount of satiety from pure sugars, starches, and fats, which simply don't exist in nature the way they do in grocery stores.
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Order half portions at restaurants. or don't finish everything they put on your plate. Especially if you're going out or to a cafeteria for lunch every day.
People are usually shocked that a plate of butter chicken with rice and naan is like 3k+ calories.
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Frankly, keep it simple. Walking an hour every day and not eating processed food is a good start for most people.
"Properly working out", just scares people away.
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> Frankly, keep it simple. Walking an hour every day and not eating processed food is a good start for most people.
> "Properly working out", just scares people away.
Working out is actually not required and may not even be that healthy. Some exercise is good though. As to "processed foods", that is false advice. It really depends on what is in there. Avoid sugar and its camouflaged forms. Keep sodium low. Make sure fat is not low quality, but the amount of fat is non-critical. Hence eating processed foods is not a problems as long as you actually read and understand the info on the package. What is a massive problem is eating low quality processed foods.