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American Adults Have Never Been Fatter


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2018 Mar 25, 10:04am   10,521 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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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.
43   zzyzzx   2018 Mar 26, 9:00am  

Obligatory:
44   zzyzzx   2018 Mar 26, 9:07am  

CBOEtrader says
Diabetes will cost anywhere from a few thousand to a hundred thousand per year.


That shit is expensive. Good thing WalMart carries Relion Humilin N cheap, like $25, and a vial lasts around 3 months or so for my cat. The cat specific insulin costs around $130 a vial, and doesn't work very good after about a month, where as the cheap stuff from WalMart is just as good months later.
45   zzyzzx   2018 Mar 26, 9:12am  

FortWayne says
I see plenty of people who are skinny.


And how many of them appear to be drug abusers?
46   anonymous   2018 Mar 26, 9:23am  

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.


——————

This is false

The quality of the calories matters so much more than the quantity.
47   zzyzzx   2018 Mar 26, 10:00am  

https://qz.com/1236574/obesity-is-killing-off-peoples-taste-buds-and-now-scientists-can-explain-why/

Obesity is killing off people’s taste buds, and now scientists can explain why

Researchers at Cornell University report the discovery that, in mice, a tiny amount of inflammation driven by obesity actually reduced the number of taste buds on their tongues. Their work was published this week (March 20) in the journal PLOS Biology, and it may wind up aiding the development of new therapies to alleviate what’s called “taste dysfunction” among people who suffer from obesity.

As part of their work, the researchers split lab mice into two groups and fed each group a different diet for eight weeks. The first group ate a standard rodent chow, comprised of 14% fat, 54% carbohydrate, and 32% protein. The second group got a high-fat diet consisting of 58.4% fat, 26.6% carbohydrate, and 15% protein, which led to obesity in the group.

After eight weeks, the researchers examined the two groups of mice and noticed the obese mice had 25% fewer taste buds.Taste buds typically consist of 50 to 100 cells and usually last about 10 days before they are cycled out and replaced. Those cells are able to taste at least five different tastes, too: salt, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami.
48   anonymous   2018 Mar 26, 10:09am  

Suffer from obesity lol like it’s some kind of disease to suck up corporate marketing and choose to be ignorant and misinformed and then improperly fuel ones body with harmful crap.
49   MrMagic   2018 Mar 26, 10:38am  

errc says
choose to be ignorant and misinformed and then improperly fuel ones body with harmful crap.


Like pot?
50   anonymous   2018 Mar 26, 10:57am  

Sniper says
errc says
choose to be ignorant and misinformed and then improperly fuel ones body with harmful crap.


Like pot?


Yup older white Americans are very ignorant and misinformed about pot
51   Strategist   2018 Mar 26, 11:00am  

zzyzzx says
As part of their work, the researchers split lab mice into two groups and fed each group a different diet for eight weeks. The first group ate a standard rodent chow, comprised of 14% fat, 54% carbohydrate, and 32% protein. The second group got a high-fat diet consisting of 58.4% fat, 26.6% carbohydrate, and 15% protein, which led to obesity in the group.

After eight weeks, the researchers examined the two groups of mice and noticed the obese mice had 25% fewer taste buds.Taste buds typically consist of 50 to 100 cells and usually last about 10 days before they are cycled out and replaced. Those cells are able to taste at least five different tastes, too: salt, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami.


Very interesting. Could be nature's way of trying to get obese people to eat less for their own good.
In the old days it was the King who would be fat. Now it is the peasants.
52   zzyzzx   2018 Mar 26, 12:16pm  

Strategist says
Very interesting. Could be nature's way of trying to get obese people to eat less for their own good.


Yes.. And anyone who spent money to do a study that tells you that food tastes better then you are hungry wasted their money.


Strategist says
In the old days it was the King who would be fat. Now it is the peasants.


Fixed:
In the old days it was the King who would be fat. Now it is everyone!.

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