CDC Says Americans Are Fatter Than Ever Before; 40% Of Adults Now Considered Obese

[Swordsmyth]

According to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control, 40% of Americans are now obese, a new all-time record high, and over 70% are overweight. Per NBC:

A troubling new report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that almost 40 percent of American adults and nearly 20 percent of adolescents are obese — the highest rates ever recorded for the U.S.

"It's difficult to be optimistic at this point," said Dr. Frank Hu, chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. "The trend of obesity has been steadily increasing in both children and adults despite many public health efforts to improve nutrition and physical activity."

Overall, 70.7 percent of Americans are either overweight or obese, meaning that an unhealthy weight has become the norm, with normal weight Americans — a BMI of less than 25 — now in the minority.

So which states are harboring the largest Americans?





Perhaps even more disturbing, the CDC also found that 20% of teenagers and 10% of preschoolers are also now considered obese.

The continued weight increase in the youngest Americans is especially worrisome for long-term health. One in five adolescents, ages 12–19; one in five kids, ages 6–11, and and one in ten preschoolers, ages 2–5 are considered obese, not just overweight.

Obesity is medically defined as having a body-mass index of more than 30. The findings on obese kids in the U.S. comes on top of this week's World Health Organization report that childhood obesity is soaring around the world, increasing more than tenfold over the past four decades.

Overweight and obese children have a higher risk to stay obese and childhood obesity is linked to a higher chance of early death in adulthood.

The consequences of the obesity epidemic are devastating: High blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and stroke are not only killing millions of Americans annually — the obesity epidemic is also a humongous burden on the American health care system, making up $190 billion a year in weight-related medical bills.

More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-1...nsidered-obese

[Zippyjuan]

What would be a "free market" answer to the problem? Should the government encourage people to eat better and exercise more?

[oyarde]

What would be a "free market" answer to the problem? Should the government encourage people to eat better and exercise more?

You could start by not making school mandatory and instituting a farm co op in public schools and making them self sufficient .LOL

[Lamp]

What would be a "free market" answer to the problem? Should the government encourage people to eat better and exercise more?

I can think of several ways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45V4fdoeMiE

[HVACTech]

What would be a "free market" answer to the problem? Should the government encourage people to eat better and exercise more?

heh, in a "free market". it very quickly, becomes very obvious...
that the subjects of this query..
have a problem with self control.

and if they cannot control themselves... what should you put them in charge of?

possible exceptions include those with "big bones"

[heavenlyboy34]

What would be a "free market" answer to the problem? Should the government encourage people to eat better and exercise more?

The regime created the food pyramid to benefit big agra. it has nothing to do with actual dietetics. One of the first things markets would do to alleviate this problem is to return responsibility for nutrition back to people where it should be. There's not much everyone has in common WRT dietary needs, so you need to figure it out with the help of someone qualified.

[Zippyjuan]

The regime created the food pyramid to benefit big agra. it has nothing to do with actual dietetics. One of the first things markets would do to alleviate this problem is to return responsibility for nutrition back to people where it should be. There's not much everyone has in common WRT dietary needs, so you need to figure it out with the help of someone qualified.

So that is why people are obese- the food pyramid. How many people even know what the food pyramid looks like? Most people are looking for something quick and cheap to eat.

[Working Poor]

That's because stuff is being called food that really is not food. A poor person on food stamps can buy all the coke a cola they want but they can't buy a supplement that could help them not crave coke.

[navy-vet]

I remember JFK and his physical fitness campaign. I wonder now if it wasn't an epidemic of obesity that was the catalyst?

[angelatc]

What would be a "free market" answer to the problem? Should the government .......

No.

[The Northbreather]

What would be a "free market" answer to the problem? Should the government encourage people to eat better and exercise more?

Did this happen under the care of the rule of the FDA?

How did this happen? I thought they were here to protect us!

[lilymc]

That's because stuff is being called food that really is not food.

^ This.

Plus, for some people their god is their belly. (Philippians 3:19)

[navy-vet]

Its the damn corn syrup that the gov pushed on us for ADM!

[heavenlyboy34]

So that is why people are obese- the food pyramid. How many people even know what the food pyramid looks like? Most people are looking for something quick and cheap to eat.

I don't believe I said that's *all*. There are plenty of other things.

[timosman]

[tod evans]

What would be a "free market" answer to the problem? Should the government encourage people to eat better and exercise more?

No, government should stop providing "free food"...

Work for beans would end this BS...

Just look at the states that're the fattest and overlay a map of free $#@! recipients....

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

What would be a "free market" answer to the problem?

If you're fat, then that's your problem.

[Weston White]

The government can just make fat our national currency, 1-pound of excess fat above the standard rate imposed by Congress would be equal to 1/16 troy ounce of silver and the bearer would be taxed at rate of 1/16 troy ounce of gold. Boom, problem solved. Pure genius!

[navy-vet]

What about the offsets that obesity brings? Like heart disease and diabetes?

[navy-vet]

Oh, I forgot! Not just the HFCS, but the growth hormones and other additives that they have put in the livestock feed to increase the animals weight. That's surely another factor in this obesity problem.
And, maybe even the unnatural GMO influences on plants and animals.

[Zippyjuan]

No, government should stop providing "free food"...

Work for beans would end this BS...

Just look at the states that're the fattest and overlay a map of free $#@! recipients....

You are right- it does usually effect poor people more. Healthy foods are perversely more expensive. And they tend to be red states.

[Zippyjuan]

If you're fat, then that's your problem.

Poor health means your healthcare costs are higher- and costs are distributed over all patients so the healthy help pay to take care of the obese.

[tod evans]

Poor health means your healthcare costs are higher- and costs are distributed over all patients so the healthy help pay to take care of the obese.

Same solution, get government the $#@! out of healthcare too!

Let these "poor people" starve and die of disease.............Or get a job and take care of themselves they're not my problem.

[TheTexan]

What's with all this fat hating? This is America, we can put any FDA approved food into our bodies that we $#@!ing want to.

[Marenco]

That's because stuff is being called food that really is not food. A poor person on food stamps can buy all the coke a cola they want but they can't buy a supplement that could help them not crave coke.

Also, let's not forget many people's sedentary lifestyles that plays a big part as well.

[oyarde]

What's with all this fat hating? This is America, we can put any FDA approved food into our bodies that we $#@!ing want to.

My state is still 60 percent lean but probably only because only 1 in 10 take the " free " govt food .

[anaconda]

Poor health means your healthcare costs are higher- and costs are distributed over all patients so the healthy help pay to take care of the obese.

Government interference in health care means your healthcare costs are higher.

The public still fails to understand the conceptual difference between the delivery of health care services and health insurance. All else being equal, a fit lean person who consumed animal products raised on 100% on grass would be stupid to join a health insurance pool with a fat pre-diabetic who dined on sugar and grain-fed factory farmed animals. Competition should make medical services cheap, and equally cheap, across consumers. The latter group will inevitably choose to spend more on health services because of poorer health.

[anaconda]

What's with all this fat hating? This is America, we can put any FDA approved food into our bodies that we $#@!ing want to.

Then why would Joe Scarborough quit the Republican Party? Makes no sense.

[TheTexan]

Then why would Joe Scarborough quit the Republican Party? Makes no sense.

I was shocked when I heard that. Very few great musicians are Republican, so I was very saddened by this news.

[Danke]

Texans like their burritos.