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Gen-X Are More Likely to Have Diabetes Than Baby Boomers
2014 Mar 27, 12:22am 1,021 views 7 comments
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Automan Empire
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2014 Mar 27, 12:38am
Corn syrup and litres per day of "diet soda" correlate strongly.
Indiana Jones
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2014 Mar 27, 1:42am
How about being raised on TV dinners, fast food franchises, sugary cereals, and overly processed packaged foods with god knows what. And how many years have they been using GMO's, poisoning our food supply from the outset? Our water is fluoridated to make us dumb and yet that was not enough; they came to our schools and gave us heavy duty fluoride treatments (remember that awful sticky pink stuff they stuck in your mouth ?) to ensure your brain was as low functioning as possible.
Then, no instruction on nutrition or on knowledge of the body in the schools so you'll grow up consuming all their poisons.
zzyzzx
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2014 Mar 27, 1:48am
How about lack of exercise? I remember when they used to have PE is schools.
Tenpoundbass
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2014 Mar 27, 2:59am
We were only the HFCS Guinea pigs. I don't think there was one single product sold during the Saturday morning Bugs Bunny and Road runner show, that didn't have 80% HFCS in it. And we wanted every damn one.
I wouldn't be surprised if this "Study" was actually true, it's probably just a more accurate observational mental note, that the author took the liberty to call a study though. Like most all of these "Studies".
What I don't understand is why the Liberal hord, is so hell bent on taxing fat people and punishing people who consume HFCS, rather than doing like the UK and just outlawing the deadly product, to begin with.
Well I know why, Sin taxes are far more lucrative, don't want to shoot the golden goose.
Then if that's the case, to which I would have to say. Well no shit Sherlock, it is what it is. Maybe people just haven't seen Michelle's MyPlate icon. If we cn just get some Obamagators to canvas Americas neighborhoods, and knock on doors and show them this...
That way they can dream about food they can't afford.
The last I heard, Purina was planing on buying McDonald's and changing the name to Purina people chow.
casandra
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2014 Mar 27, 4:16am
i don't think that the gen-x era will out live the baby boomers. by that i mean i think they will both die off around the same time. baby boomers living into their eighties and gen x era dying off in their 70s or so, so the gen x ers are paying for boomers retirements and never going to see one of their own. The boomers should throw them a party!!
Heraclitusstudent
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2014 Mar 27, 5:59am
by that i mean i think they will both die off around the same time. baby boomers living into their eighties and gen x era dying off in their 70s or so
No, Gen X will be uploaded into computers and collect SS forever.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-27/gen-x-are-more-likely-to-have-diabetes-than-baby-boomers.html
People born from 1966 to 1980, known as Generation X, are fatter and twice as likely to have diabetes as Baby Boomers were at the same age, according to an Australian study that predicts younger generations will be sicker and costlier to care for in old age.
National health survey data were used to compare the groups at age 25 to 44 years. While Generation X was better educated and less likely to smoke, their prevalence of obesity was about 50 percent higher than recorded for Baby Boomers, born from 1946 to 1965, at the same age. For males especially, the trend corresponded with increased diabetes, researchers at the University of Adelaide, in South Australia, found.
Their findings, published today in PLOS ONE, suggest the current generation of breadwinners may be vulnerable earlier in life to diabetes, hypertension and other lifestyle-related diseases, pulling them out of the labor force at a younger age.
“The physical activity and food environment has changed drastically over the past decades to one in which transport options encourage sedentary behavior and food high in fat and sugar is often more readily available than a healthier alternative,” they said, adding that if trends continue, “there will be significant implications for workforce capacity, health care utilization and, therefore, health costs.”
The research, funded by the Australian Research Council, adds to evidence suggesting that successive generations are developing obesity and related chronic conditions earlier in life, the authors said.
At the same relative age, Baby Boomers in the U.S. and U.K. have been shown to have a greater prevalence of obesity than people born from 1926 to 1945, associated with more disability and chronic conditions, including diabetes and hypertension.
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