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American Adults Have Never Been Fatter


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2018 Mar 25, 10:04am   10,271 views  52 comments

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40% of American adults are obese, a sharp increase from a decade earlier and a record high. according to federal health officials.

A National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) sampling of 27,449 adults with a BMI between 30 and 40 found that among those aged 20 years and older, obesity went from 33.7% in 2007-2008 to 39.6% in 2015-2016. Severe obesity - those with a BMI above 40, jumped from 5.7% to 7.7% over the same period.


The increase in obesity among the 16,875 youth sampled was much lower, going from 16.8% a decade ago to 18.5% in 2015-2016. Still pretty bad.


National trends

The CDC has prepared handy list of statistics as well as maps of average obesity by state, as well as by race. In a nutshell, the south is a hotbed of obesity.
Of note:

Obesity decreased by level of education. Adults without a high school degree or equivalent had the highest self-reported obesity
Young adults were half as likely to have obesity as middle-aged adults.

Obesity Prevalence in 2016 Varies Across States and Territories

All states had more than 20% of adults with obesity.
35% or more adults had obesity in 5 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Virginia).
The South had the highest prevalence of obesity (32.0%), followed by the Midwest (31.4%), the Northeast (26.9%), and the West (26.0%).


“Most people know that being overweight or obese is unhealthy, and if you eat too much that contributes to being overweight,” says Dr. James Krieger, clinical professor of medicine at the University of Washington and executive director of the advocacy group Healthy Food America. “But just telling people there’s a problem doesn’t solve it.”

And as The Herald also notes, Americans are cramming their craws with more fast food than ever...

While the latest survey data do not explain why Americans continue to get heavier, nutritionists and other experts cite lifestyle, genetics and, most importantly, a poor diet as factors. U.S. fast-food sales rose 22.7 percent from 2012-2017, according to Euromonitor, while packaged-food sales rose 8.8 percent. -Miami Herald

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-24/american-adults-have-never-been-fatter

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3   MisterLefty   2018 Mar 25, 10:16am  

Move to Vermont to lose weight.
4   Tenpoundbass   2018 Mar 25, 10:17am  

I don't know why people like being useful idiots. I live in Florida and I'll give you a million dollars and kiss your ass, if we can randomly pick 4 places and find just one of them have 35% of the people in there are as obese as the two subjects you chose to frame your Idiot task. They are getting closer to the honest truth what happened to 70% of Adults are obese they were floating during Obama's years
5   Shaman   2018 Mar 25, 10:18am  

Bass, have you been to the Midwest? It’s fucking sad.
6   RC2006   2018 Mar 25, 10:19am  

Decades ago fat fucks died a lot faster, they shouldn't be sustained by free food, healthcare, fat scooters, or any other assistance.
7   RC2006   2018 Mar 25, 10:21am  

Quigley says
I wonder if that guy on the scooter can even reach his dick, or does he need a crane to winch that enormous dewlap out of the way first?

Probably on disability that pays for him to have his ass wiped and weekly whale washdown.
8   MrMagic   2018 Mar 25, 10:22am  

Tenpoundbass says
I don't know why people like being useful idiots. I live in Florida and I'll give you a million dollars and kiss your ass, if we can randomly pick 4 places and find just one of them have 35% of the people in there are as obese as the two subjects you chose to frame your Idiot task.


Haven't been to Walmart lately, have you?
9   MrMagic   2018 Mar 25, 10:24am  

RC2006 says
Decades ago fat fucks died a lot faster, they shouldn't be sustained by free food, healthcare, fat scooters, or any other assistance.


Now, they're on Obamacare with their FREE Medicaid. Isn't the USA wonderful.
10   Tenpoundbass   2018 Mar 25, 11:08am  

Sniper says

Haven't been to Walmart lately, have you?


Yes I'll take video next time.
The thing I notice in Walmart they have 100 checkout lines but only 2 of them are ever open. So I end up leaving my cart of shit right there and walk out.
I have a low tolerance level of shit like that. Don't have the registers I would probably stay, but to see them sitting there closed while I'm in a 20+ person line doesn't sit well with me.

As for the weight of the people, unless it's basically empty and not many people there, and the only people there are the old and fat people on a scooter basket. Fat people are normally the small minority. For every obese person in a chair, there is at least 20 healthy normal frame people. If not more.
11   MrMagic   2018 Mar 25, 11:48am  

Tenpoundbass says
The thing I notice in Walmart they have 100 checkout lines but only 2 of them are ever open. So I end up leaving my cart of shit right there and walk out.


What's that got to do with all the fatties waddling around in the store?

Tenpoundbass says
As for the weight of the people, unless it's basically empty and not many people there, and the only people there are the old and fat people on a scooter basket. Fat people are normally the small minority. For every obese person in a chair, there is at least 20 healthy normal frame people.


Go take a walk through around 11 AM and report back. The obese and overweight are the majority.
12   CBOEtrader   2018 Mar 25, 12:31pm  

Sniper says
Now, they're on Obamacare with their FREE Medicaid.


I sell Obamacare to obese people almost daily. Huge pronmblem (pun intended). Diabetes will cost anywhere from a few thousand to a hundred thousand per year.

It gets worse though. Since the diabetics all use Obama care, the premiums charged go through the roof, resulting in higher subsidies per person each year --all paid for by the taxpayer.

I'll put a fatass into a $1900/month blue cross plan, that they pay $45/month for. This person may make $18000/yr due to obesity limits on ability to work. Therefore the taxpayer is subsidizing their insurance for $21600/yr, significantly more than they earn at work.

It's a giant "fuck you" to the taxpayer because everyone is getting rich in the process. Frankly, this includes me. For that same diabetic above I make about $600 In commissions for that blue cross policy, often more than the client is paying for the year.

It's a disgustingly cronyized government manipulated system...all making money on fattasses and other chronically sick Americans.

Medicaid and Medicare are worse.

Get govt out of healthcare before we go bankrupt
13   Strategist   2018 Mar 25, 12:48pm  

Sniper says
Tenpoundbass says
As for the weight of the people, unless it's basically empty and not many people there, and the only people there are the old and fat people on a scooter basket. Fat people are normally the small minority. For every obese person in a chair, there is at least 20 healthy normal frame people.


Go take a walk through around 11 AM and report back. The obese and overweight are the majority.


All I see in Walmart are fat people walking slowly, buying food that will make them even more fat.
14   Strategist   2018 Mar 25, 12:52pm  

CBOEtrader says
It gets worse though. Since the diabetics all use Obama care, the premiums charged go through the roof, resulting in higher subsidies per person each year --all paid for by the taxpayer.

I'll put a fatass into a $1900/month blue cross plan, that they pay $45/month for. This person may make $18000/yr due to obesity limits on ability to work. Therefore the taxpayer is subsidizing their insurance for $21600/yr, significantly more than they earn at work.

It's a giant "fuck you" to the taxpayer because everyone is getting rich in the process. Frankly, this includes me. For that same diabetic above I make about $600 In commissions for that blue cross policy, often more than the client is paying for the year.

It's a disgustingly cronyized government manipulated system...all making money on fattasses and other chronically sick Americans.

Medicaid and Medicare are worse.


This is why I support a "fat tax"
15   MrMagic   2018 Mar 25, 12:56pm  

Strategist says
Sniper says
Tenpoundbass says
As for the weight of the people, unless it's basically empty and not many people there, and the only people there are the old and fat people on a scooter basket. Fat people are normally the small minority. For every obese person in a chair, there is at least 20 healthy normal frame people.


Go take a walk through around 11 AM and report back. The obese and overweight are the majority.


All I see in Walmart are fat people walking slowly, buying food that will make them even more fat.


But the Capt. never sees them in Florida in Walmart. Apparently all the fatties are only in NJ and CA??? Don't think so.

Or, he's got his eyes closed.
16   Strategist   2018 Mar 25, 1:00pm  

Sniper says
But the Capt. never sees them in Florida in Walmart. Apparently all the fatties are only in NJ and CA??? Don't think so.

Or, he's got his eyes closed.


Or the Captain considers a 300lb human as not being fat.
17   Tenpoundbass   2018 Mar 25, 1:15pm  

Sniper says
Go take a walk through around 11 AM and report back. The obese and overweight are the majority.

Well there's certain times of the day, old, disabled and debilitated fat people go, so they can park closer. What about the other 23 hours out of the day where there's not a single person over 235lbs in the whole store?

You sound like the Pork executive on NPR pissing an moaning about how the Tarrifs, will make pork more expensive in China and will create an adequate supply in America where Pork prices will fall to normal historic prices. And food will become affordable because so much of our grain wont be going into fattening pigs up for China. So even our grains will be affordable again. This guy wanted me to feel sorry that the Food industry top execs life styles are in danger of suffering. This misserable bastard is in danger of having to pay $350 tops for a home instead of the $800K to 1.5Mil our dinner plates affords him. Time to strike up the Fat patrol and get everyone on board for $12 Chickens and $5.00 Tomatoes, it's the only way to save America from the Fat Fucks.
Like I said don't be a useful Idiot.
18   CBOEtrader   2018 Mar 25, 1:32pm  

People should be free to live life on their terms.

Unfortunately, our medical industry is largely socialized, and therefore society picks up the burden of their poor decisions. As I pointed out above, chronically obese people almost never pay their fair share. You can add HIV+ people, who need a $6k/month drug FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES, to that group. OR, how about trans surgeries? Obamacare plans will pay for the $4k month hormones and the surgery.

We are going bankrupt supporting mostly worthless people's poor health decisions. For the cost of one trans person's hormones, we could add a new teacher to an inner city school. Which route do you think would pay off better for the taxpayers?

At this rate our healthcare system will bankrupt us.
19   Shaman   2018 Mar 25, 1:39pm  

Those aren’t worthless fat people with burdensome health costs that must be socialized... they’re consumers! Very valuable to monopolists and wealthy elites intent on getting higher on the Forbes 50!
20   anonymous   2018 Mar 25, 2:09pm  

Obamacare?

I thought Trumpublicans Repealed and Replaced Obamacare after going on about it 24/7 for years?
21   NDrLoR   2018 Mar 25, 3:20pm  

Tenpoundbass says
The thing I notice in Walmart they have 100 checkout lines but only 2 of them are ever open. So I end up leaving my cart of shit right there and walk out.
Our Wal-Mart removed self-checkouts about seven or eight years ago, then put them back in about two years ago and it makes all the difference because I only buy a couple of things at Wal-Mart--I can once again be in and checked out in about five minutes. H-E-B removed their self-checkouts about five years ago never to be seen again. They also went from express check-out lanes for 5 items only, then 10 and now to 15, which is ridiculous, they effectively have no express check-out lanes anymore. Express check-outs should be what you can carry in yours hands.
22   mell   2018 Mar 25, 4:19pm  

Directly correlated with the leftist " don't body shame me" movement. Leftism has its price.
23   anonymous   2018 Mar 25, 4:29pm  

mell says
Directly correlated with the leftist " don't body shame me" movement. Leftism has its price.


Right. It’s the liberals buying all the candy and cereal, claiming that science is FakeNews! The Liberals tricked us to trust God and the Authority of The State over reason, that allowed for the Food Pyramid to permeate through middle America and our Churches!

The Trump voter base definitely aren’t the ones flooding CVS for Permanent Prescriptions with a few bags of candy and a crate of Diet Coke en route to Chick fil a lmao
24   NoYes   2018 Mar 25, 4:39pm  

Ban food sales to them.....but not guns.
25   anonymous   2018 Mar 25, 4:49pm  

NoYes says
Ban food sales to them.....but not guns.


Just stop subsidizing HFCS and corn goes away, Hemp steps right in as a more valuable cash crop that doesn’t require subsidy, and doesn’t make all the sugar addicts fat
26   Tenpoundbass   2018 Mar 25, 5:24pm  

CBOEtrader says
Therefore the taxpayer is subsidizing their insurance for $21600/yr,


The Fat Fucks aren't the problem that is.
If Insulin was made in Sweat Shops with a single proprietor, it would be $5 a gallon.

We need to quit feeding Corporate executives our retirement allotments from our paychecks.

Nationalize Bioresearch and Pharmaceutical companies in this country. Fuck if our tax dollars isn't paying nearly 100% of all meaningful R&D. It's theft on so many levels and what do we get for it. $22K in insulin subsidies a year.

Fuck the greedy cabal ignore the fat asses they aren't the problem. The Greedy fucking pigs are.
27   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Mar 25, 5:29pm  



Don't eat fat. Eat lots of grains and carbs! This message brought to you by, the Archer Daniels Midlands, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Dr. Pritikin.

Another Radical Left, Corporate Socialist-Globalist Alliance.
28   FortWayne   2018 Mar 25, 5:59pm  

Keep paying taxes boys, we need to subsidize irresponsible behavior.

As AF says, if you can’t obese and stick taxpayers with your bills, freedom has no meaning.
29   MrMagic   2018 Mar 25, 6:12pm  

errc says
The Trump voter base definitely aren’t the ones flooding CVS for Permanent Prescriptions with a few bags of candy and a crate of Diet Coke en route to Chick fil a


That's correct, this is who is:

30   mell   2018 Mar 25, 6:37pm  

errc says
mell says
Directly correlated with the leftist " don't body shame me" movement. Leftism has its price.


Right. It’s the liberals buying all the candy and cereal, claiming that science is FakeNews! The Liberals tricked us to trust God and the Authority of The State over reason, that allowed for the Food Pyramid to permeate through middle America and our Churches!

The Trump voter base definitely aren’t the ones flooding CVS for Permanent Prescriptions with a few bags of candy and a crate of Diet Coke en route to Chick fil a lmao


It's mostly leftist activism that promoted a culture of you cannot do anything wrong, close to criminalizing fat shaming - esp. on women - and ads of in shape girls, leading to fat kids and juvenile diabetes, esp. among Mexican immigrants and poorer demographics.
31   Patrick   2018 Mar 25, 7:02pm  

Sniper says
While the latest survey data do not explain why Americans continue to get heavier, nutritionists and other experts cite lifestyle, genetics and, most importantly, a poor diet as factors.


I suspect that the hormones fed to animals to fatten them up quickly and economically are having the same effect on Americans:

https://www.organicconsumers.org/scientific/growth-hormones-fed-beef-cattle-damage-human-health

So it's not just a problem of self-discipline. It's also a problem of the meat industry poisoning the public, most likely.

Also, just anecdotally, I had acne in high school, but for the the summer before my junior year, I did a foreign study thing in Germany and the acne completely went away while I was there. 100% cured. Then I came back, and the acne came back. Hmmm.

Double hmmm: German exchange students in my high school would show up with perfect skin, but rapidly get acne. Happened over and over. It was like an accidental but great science experiment. Especially since Germany has much higher food quality standards than we do in the US.
32   Strategist   2018 Mar 25, 8:24pm  

Sniper says


My message to the fat lady on the right......You have nothing to worry about.
33   FortWayne   2018 Mar 25, 8:28pm  

Patrick says
So it's not just a problem of self-discipline. It's also a problem of the meat industry poisoning the public, most likely.


I see plenty of people who are skinny. I can't tell either way, but I think most of it is just poor dietary choices.
34   Patrick   2018 Mar 25, 8:47pm  

FortWayne says
I see plenty of people who are skinny. I can't tell either way, but I think most of it is just poor dietary choices.


Maybe it's just the people who eat at fast-food places like McDonalds who are getting the cheapest beef with the most hormones.

Would be interesting to compare fast food restaurants density to obesity in that area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_hormone_controversy
35   FortWayne   2018 Mar 25, 8:54pm  

Patrick says
FortWayne says
I see plenty of people who are skinny. I can't tell either way, but I think most of it is just poor dietary choices.


Maybe it's just the people who eat at fast-food places like McDonalds who are getting the cheapest beef with the most hormones.

Would be interesting to compare fast food restaurants density to obesity in that area.


McDonalds out here (and they are probably all like that), it doesn't even taste like meat. Tastes more like a science experiment.
36   NDrLoR   2018 Mar 25, 8:58pm  

Sniper says
That's correct, this is who is:
To the one on the right in green--you can count on it!
37   MrMagic   2018 Mar 25, 9:24pm  

Patrick says
Maybe it's just the people who eat at fast-food places like McDonalds who are getting the cheapest beef with the most hormones.

Would be interesting to compare fast food restaurants density to obesity in that area.


That could be part of it. I would also say it has to do with economic conditions too. If you can't afford to buy a steak, potatoes and veggies, and cook your own meal, they usually opt for the easy way out, the McDonald's drive through. Plus a supersized Big Mac meal has hundreds of more calories than cooking a steak dinner at home. Cheap, easy and free Obesity, all wrapped together.
38   MrMagic   2018 Mar 25, 9:28pm  

FortWayne says
Patrick says
So it's not just a problem of self-discipline. It's also a problem of the meat industry poisoning the public, most likely.


I see plenty of people who are skinny. I can't tell either way, but I think most of it is just poor dietary choices.


I think it's both, poor dietary choices AND self-discipline. When I'm on a cruise, I love to people watch, and observe what people load their plates with on the buffet lines. There is definitely a correlation between the size of the person and the type of food and quantity of what's on their plates.
39   Y   2018 Mar 25, 9:56pm  

trump and bush won florida.
hillbilly won nj ca
fatfucks more prevalent in bluestates
splains it.

Sniper says
But the Capt. never sees them in Florida in Walmart. Apparently all the fatties are only in NJ and CA??? Don't think so.
40   MisterLefty   2018 Mar 26, 3:39am  

Folks still think dietary choices are about caloric content of the food they are going to eat. OTOH, simple carbs versus complex carbs, fat and protein seem to be a more scientific based method of evaluating what to eat. An then there is exercise. I know that you can lose lots of weight without exercising versus not losing weight with exercising. If you burn 400 calories on the elliptical, which would be decent burn, that isn't even one big mac. Stay on the couch, and eat some hummus and red pepper slices and not the Big Mac, and forget exercise to lose weight. Exercise to stay in shape, not lose weight.
41   MrMagic   2018 Mar 26, 7:56am  

MisterLefty says
Folks still think dietary choices are about caloric content of the food they are going to eat. OTOH, simple carbs versus complex carbs, fat and protein seem to be a more scientific based method of evaluating what to eat. An then there is exercise.


The question isn't what specific caloric content their eating, it's the VOLUME of the calories they are eating. Eating multiple 2000 calorie meals a day, no matter what the calorie structure of the food is, becomes the real issue.

MisterLefty says
Stay on the couch, and eat some hummus and red pepper slices and not the Big Mac, and forget exercise to lose weight.


Is this what the fatties are doing?
42   Bd6r   2018 Mar 26, 8:07am  

Patrick says
I suspect that the hormones fed to animals to fatten them up quickly and economically are having the same effect on Americans:

May be, but the biggest issue probably is not doing any physical labor and not walking anywhere - just take car even if your friend is a block away.

From my understanding, the worst issue with supermarket meat is antibiotics. Microbes lose sensitivity if they have these antibiotics around constantly, and when you need antibiotics, they do not work any more.

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