US obesity problem is not budging, new data shows

[Aldo Raine]

What needs to happen is people stop being so god damn lazy and caving in for the endless desire of sugar.

That's hard to do when added sugar is in almost everything that's available to eat in the United States.

Everything You Need to Know About Sugar. | Nerd Fitness

1822: Americans consume 45 grams of sugar every five days, or the amount of sugar in a can of coke.

2012: Americans consume 756 grams of sugar every five days, or 130 POUNDS of sugar a year.

More than a pound of sugar every 3 days on average.

Sugar and salt is added to almost all foods to make them taste better and therefore you to crave them even more. For the most part the things that taste the best are the least good for you because things were added for more flavor.

 

[Confounding]

Do you think the average persons diet was better back in the 50s? Households cooked with crisco. Everyone smoked.

Americans consume more than a pound of sugar every 3 days on average, and also WAY more trans fat than at any point in history. I can't imagine why heart disease and diabetes are out of control. Yes, exercise matters, A LOT. Your diet matters a lot too. Your attempt to downplay the role diet plays in health is absurd. To be healthy and live long you need both exercise and a good diet unless you are one lucky SOB.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The biggest one is where the libs began slapping bad criminals on the wrist, and then creating an environment of fear in which forced the children to not be able to go out to play or be active anymore. Liberal actions and policies have been a huge failure in this country, and it has caused some tragic things to form in this country. The results are in, and now it's damage control time eh liberals ?

People stay inside because they're inundated with addictive technology. Before the internet and video games there wasn't much else to do but go outside and be active.

That's it right there.

When I was a kid (back in the 70's) my parents hardly seen me. In the summer, I would wake up, have breakfast, and out of the door. I came back at lunch and repeat, came back at dinner and repeat. Unless it was raining all day, outside is where you spent your entire summer.

 

[beagle9]

The fatter the country, the better that place is to live.

Of course, the left will blame diet and sugar etc........meaning capitalism and America. Another little opportunity to justify their desires for communism.

Let me theorize what the problem has been. First let me point out what the left won't point out. Obesity AROUND THE WORLD has increased dramatically. They are not going to point out the problem in those socialist paradises in Europe. We all know why.

Obesity and overweight

Junk food, coke, Mcdonalds, etc has been around for a while now. Hundred years or more. Yet, the obesity PROBLEM has increased dramatically over the last 25 years or so. What has been introduced as a part of world culture over the last 25 years? The internet? Oh.....yeah. Since 1975 according to that study I provided, WORLD OBESITY has tripled. Oh right around the time home computers and video games and cable TV? Yeah, right around that time?

Huh.....

Let me give my little theory now. It is not necessarily what you eat. It is how active you are. It you are the type that is constantly moving.....and active you can eat whatever you want....within reason. As you grow older your diet should become more adult. Also, as you grow older the slower your metabolism. The less active you are, the better you should eat. That is the key.

Problem with kids (and adults) is we eat the junk food or load ourselves on carbs (or sugars) and then we do not burn it off. That is where the internet and video games play the major part. Along with excessive television watching. The average person probably spends 6 or 7 hours at work in front of a computer. Come home, and right back onto a computer or in front of a TV. Even if you got 30 minutes of exercise a day, it is probably not enough.

So, the basic formula (which is not rocket science) is the worse you eat, the more active you should be. Walk or find an activity that you do in the yard. Move, move, move. If you are not going to be active, then you better be eating strictly. That is the reality.

Don't let the American hating commies let you think this is a capitalist problem as they try and take over every nook and cranny of the average persons life.

. Exactly, and the other part of it all, is stop letting the leftist commies create an environment around your communities that make it unsafe for your family to go out and enjoy that activity that was once freely and safely enjoyed by you and your family. Now for those who live in private communities and such, this doesn't apply because you had the resources to separate yourselves from the bullcrap. So who are we seeing out there that are obese ?? Some here point out specific groups or individuals right ? Well who are these groups, and from where do they come from ?? They come from areas where safely riding your bike down the street is highly dangerous, but then people sit back and say wow look at that fat ace poor kid, who sits around all day on the government dime getting fat and lazy right ?? Yes the situation is complicated, but until the real truth are addressed, then it only gets worse and worse.

 

[gipper]

I believe diet has the biggest effect.

If you eat processed foods all day every day you are likely to have weight problem, but also looming health problems. Americans are not only fat, they are terribly unhealthy...due to poor food choices and a failing healthcare system, in which doctors know nothing about nutrition but a lot about expensive synthetic harmful pharmaceutical drugs.

Many Americans think pizza is a health food. So, ignorance is another big problem.

 

[Theowl32]

Allot of this problem with fat slob children can be laid right at the feet of limp wrists lazy moms and dads. If one has a sloppy fat child I their house, it is the owner of that child's fault. Not McDonalds, Twinkies or whatever. It's also not the democrats fault, unless that is said democrats are in charge of your kids. The female obamas little lunch scheme had no effect on any of my kids as I made it a point to be in charge of feeding them. Thus, I don't have fat disgusting children.

Hostess Twinkies etc and all of those sugary things along with high salt snacks like potato chips etc have been around for a LONG time. Longer than when the OBESITY epidemic has said to have started. Meaning, long before 1975.

We have become sedentary. We are simply on average far less active. That is the problem. Do not think for one moment, that the left wing commie think tanks is raising this issue cause they give a shit. They are using this as a nice oppostunity for them to come in and control the average persons life.

That is what all of this is about. Notice how the left are disagreeing with my points, and yet we as a society are eating far better than we were in the 50s or 60s. Why is it you suppose the left deny that we were eating worse in the 30s or 40s or 50s?

Think about why they deny that. It is because they have an agenda and that fact goes against the narrative. Which, of course is capitalism is bad and their commies ways are good.

Understand what this is.

 

[Aldo Raine]

We need sugar, it fuels our brains and body, but too much sugar intake is poisonous, and kills us with obesity, diabetes, kidney failures.....

Exercise helps us pass the excess sugar....kids no longer play the way they used to outside....

Also, when the USA was on a fat free or low fat kick, manufacturers added sugar for better taste.....turns out, we were better off with the fat content than with the added sugar.

Bingo, but like most things in life moderation is the key!

 

[ricechickie]

Leftists campaigns never produce any results - other than bunch of wasted money and good feels for the initiator.

What needs to happen is people stop being so god damn lazy and caving in for the endless desire of sugar. In short responsibility... not something Michelle would be a fan of.

Yes, but we Republicans told liberals these measures wouldn't work from day one, and they didn't. They insisted that the federal government could change eating habits like they believe they can change the climate.

I think this is part of the ongoing trend to change leadership in this country. Nobody wants to be told what to do in their personal lives by the federal government. That goes double when they try to tell our children what they are going to do.

So, staying fat is a “**** you” to big government?

What a strange form of protest.

 

[beagle9]

The biggest one is where the libs began slapping bad criminals on the wrist, and then creating an environment of fear in which forced the children to not be able to go out to play or be active anymore. Liberal actions and policies have been a huge failure in this country, and it has caused some tragic things to form in this country. The results are in, and now it's damage control time eh liberals ?

People stay inside because they're inundated with addictive technology. Before the internet and video games there wasn't much else to do but go outside and be active.

That's it right there.

When I was a kid (back in the 70's) my parents hardly seen me. In the summer, I would wake up, have breakfast, and out of the door. I came back at lunch and repeat, came back at dinner and repeat. Unless it was raining all day, outside is where you spent your entire summer.

. Parents allow that now, and their kids won't come back. Pathetic situation.

 

[Aldo Raine]

I believe diet has the biggest effect.

If you eat processed foods all day every day you are likely to have weight problem, but also looming health problems. Americans are not only fat, they are terribly unhealthy...due to poor food choices and a failing healthcare system, in which doctors know nothing about nutrition but a lot about expensive synthetic harmful pharmaceutical drugs.

Many Americans think pizza is a health food. So, ignorance is another big problem.

Excellent, excellent point. Thank you sir!

 

[frigidweirdo]

NEW YORK (AP) - America's weight problem isn't getting any better, according to new government research.

Overall, obesity figures stayed about the same: About 40 percent of adults are obese and 18.5 percent of children. Those numbers are a slight increase from the last report but the difference is so small that it could have occurred by chance.

Worrisome to experts is the rate for children and teenagers, which had hovered around 17 percent for a decade. The 2-to-5 age group had the biggest rise.

The bad news is that the numbers didn't go down, experts say. In recent years, state and national health officials have focused on obesity in kids, who were the target of the national Let's Move campaign launched by former first lady Michelle Obama in 2010.

US obesity problem is not budging, new data shows

The last sentence is very telling: kids are still fat in spite of Moochelle trying to force them to eat foods they didn't want or like.

I'm sure leftists are totally shocked at this; Democrats can't control people like most people do their pets. Besides that idiotic campaign, her husband also forced restaurants to post calorie count on all menus from coast to coast. He assumed that unless Big Brother told us a Big Mac combo was not the best choice for dinner, we wouldn't be able to figure it out ourselves.

The federal government is not our parents and we are not the federal governments children. I wonder how many millions of private and taxpayer dollars were wasted on these programs that turned up absolutely nothing?

Message to control freak leftists: Leave us alone! Let us live our own lives and make our own decisions! Really.........you don't own us.....

"Folks, liberals measure success by intent. Conservatives measure success by results."
Rush Limbaugh

Do you really think what Michelle Obama did was enough to solve the whole problem?

Typical sort of right wing thinking. "Well, we did one thing, and it didn't work, so, **** it, let's never do anything ever again".

 

[Theowl32]

I believe diet has the biggest effect.

If you eat processed foods all day every day you are likely to have weight problem, but also looming health problems. Americans are not only fat, they are terribly unhealthy...due to poor food choices and a failing healthcare system, in which doctors know nothing about nutrition but a lot about expensive synthetic harmful pharmaceutical drugs.

Many Americans think pizza is a health food. So, ignorance is another big problem.

Been eating pizza and junk food for a long time. We were eating far worse in the 50s and 60s.

However, there were no personal computers or video games or cable TV for kids to waste away in front of. They were far more active.

That is the problem. If that is not the problem, then please explain how the same junk foods were around during that time and yet the obesity problems only happened after we became less active.

You deny the average persons diet was worse during that time? You have any idea how people cooked back then? I remember vats of Crisco at my friends house. I remember the commercials.

 

[Crixus]

We need sugar, it fuels our brains and body, but too much sugar intake is poisonous, and kills us with obesity, diabetes, kidney failures.....

Exercise helps us pass the excess sugar....kids no longer play the way they used to outside....

Also, when the USA was on a fat free or low fat kick, manufacturers added sugar for better taste.....turns out, we were better off with the fat content than with the added sugar.

It's become to easy to sit all the time. Where I work now, we have stand up desks and head sets so we can walk around. far as the food go's, I kind of agree. All you mentioned is fuel, but there is a difference between good fuel and shitty fuel. Fuel that burns clean, and fuel that's shit. In the end, tater chips and Twinkies are bad fuels. Chocolate ship cookies made from good stuff instead of goo are a good excample of good crappy fuel. That and simply excorcising an hour a day.

 

[Theowl32]

Notice folks how people think we eat worse today than we did in the 40s or 50s or 60s?

Junk food was not invented in the 80s people.

We were eating far worse back then.

Why are leftists denying this? Go ahead, take a guess why they deny this.

 

[Confounding]

You deny the average persons diet was worse during that time?

Give me a reliable source that says diet in the 1950s was less healthy than today. You know, something that compares soft drink intake, average amount of trips to McDonald's, ect. You'll have to look hard, because all of the studies I found seem to say the opposite. Bad diet and less exercise both contribute to America's obesity problem.

 

[BulletProof]

Many Americans think pizza is a health food. So, ignorance is another big problem.

Pizza can easily be a health food. And, even common pizza can be reasonably healthy.

But, all fat people have bad diets. I don't think it's so much due to ignorance as laziness and hedonism. They know highly processed foods are unhealthy, but eating them is so much easier than making a salad or cooking from scratch. They know soda is bad, but it tastes so goood.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The problem of obesity is a complicated one....diet is only one component. Lack of activity...electronic stationary amusements....motorized toys instead of people powered....all create a grim outlook for today's children.

It's younger people in general because they were raised that way.

Up north we really value global warming. In the spring, my older tenants come outside, we open our windows, we talk with the neighbors we haven't seen all winter. My younger tenants? They stay in their four walls. The only time you see them is when they leave their apartment to go to their car. They go from using the furnace to using the air conditioning. I joked one time with some people that windows do actually open. LOL!

 

[Crixus]

Notice folks how people think we eat worse today than we did in the 40s or 50s or 60s?

Junk food was not invented in the 80s people.

We were eating far worse back then.

Why are leftists denying this? Go ahead, take a guess why they deny this.

The junk food was better back then.

 

[beagle9]

NEW YORK (AP) - America's weight problem isn't getting any better, according to new government research.

Overall, obesity figures stayed about the same: About 40 percent of adults are obese and 18.5 percent of children. Those numbers are a slight increase from the last report but the difference is so small that it could have occurred by chance.

Worrisome to experts is the rate for children and teenagers, which had hovered around 17 percent for a decade. The 2-to-5 age group had the biggest rise.

The bad news is that the numbers didn't go down, experts say. In recent years, state and national health officials have focused on obesity in kids, who were the target of the national Let's Move campaign launched by former first lady Michelle Obama in 2010.

US obesity problem is not budging, new data shows

The last sentence is very telling: kids are still fat in spite of Moochelle trying to force them to eat foods they didn't want or like.

I'm sure leftists are totally shocked at this; Democrats can't control people like most people do their pets. Besides that idiotic campaign, her husband also forced restaurants to post calorie count on all menus from coast to coast. He assumed that unless Big Brother told us a Big Mac combo was not the best choice for dinner, we wouldn't be able to figure it out ourselves.

The federal government is not our parents and we are not the federal governments children. I wonder how many millions of private and taxpayer dollars were wasted on these programs that turned up absolutely nothing?

Message to control freak leftists: Leave us alone! Let us live our own lives and make our own decisions! Really.........you don't own us.....

"Folks, liberals measure success by intent. Conservatives measure success by results."
Rush Limbaugh

It takes more than a few years to change habits.

Most of what Michelle did was educate better habits. How dare she!

I for one am very glad calorie counts were posted and it has made a difference in my choices. Rightwingers seem to think informed decision making is a bad thing and will fight tooth and nail to prevent it and then blame the victim for the results of bad decisions.

Liberals believe it is less costly to invest in prevention through education and making information available then it is to pay for the resulting illness, disability and workforce losses down the road.

Conservatives prefer to punish the person who made bad choices.

Which outlook is regressive?

. The crazy thing is that liberals caused the trends to form in the first place, then they take taxpayers money to create programs that have to wean the population back off of it.. lol.... Say it ain't so, and I'll say it is so.

Hoe exactly did they "cause" obesity trends in today's children?

I explained the cultural shift, are you in denial of the trends, and who enabled those trends ?? Yes, corporations were also a major player as well, but it took the gullable to buy everything they were selling as truth all wrapped up in a nice package. The issue is complicated, but my views are also part of it as well.

 

[Confounding]

The junk food was better back then.

People also ate a lot less of it because there was a lot less of it in general. He has no idea what he's talking about. Every study I've looked at says 1950s diet was healthier than today.