US obesity problem is not budging, new data shows

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Amazing to me how anybody can link the obesity problems of this country to any political party. This is how bad the far left and right have gotten.

I maintain the issue is related to technology

 

[Aldo Raine]

Amazing to me how anybody can link the obesity problems of this country to any political party. This is how bad the far left and right have gotten.

I maintain the issue is related to technology

Many, many factors indeed. People do not work at hard physical jobs anymore because of technology and automation. Also our foods are loaded with shit and people do not cook or use whole foods as much as before. Some due to both parents having to work or parent or parents having multiple jobs to make ends meet. Cooming becomes tougher so more fast food and prepackaged process foods. Most of us are guilty of one or even all of these.

 

[Muhammed]

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

The report is simply a lie.

 

[beagle9]

No doubt a sedentary life style is harmful, but eating processed chemical tainted foods along with foods designed to make you fat (sugar and grains), will result in obesity and health problems.

Big food, big Pharma, and big government seem to prefer fat unhealthy Americans.

Doctor yourself.

. Just ate a Wendy's salad... Yummy. Ugggh.. Miss my Ribye.. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

 

[xotoxi]

One of the main reasons why obesity is such a problem in America is because:

• food that is bad for you and makes you gain weight quickly is CHEAP

• food that is good for you and gives you nutrients without excessive calories is EXPENSIVE

Besides McDonalds or Burger King, where else can you feed a family of 4 dinner for under $20?

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

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

The report is simply a lie.

Yeah, that Associated Press is known for lying all the time.

 

[ClosedCaption]

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

Yeah kids are still fat after Michelle wasn't able to parent all the children in the world. What a fail!

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Amazing to me how anybody can link the obesity problems of this country to any political party. This is how bad the far left and right have gotten.

I maintain the issue is related to technology

Many, many factors indeed. People do not work at hard physical jobs anymore because of technology and automation. Also our foods are loaded with shit and people do not cook or use whole foods as much as before. Some due to both parents having to work or parent or parents having multiple jobs to make ends meet. Cooming becomes tougher so more fast food and prepackaged process foods. Most of us are guilty of one or even all of these.

That and who has time to prepare meals anymore? We have so much entertainment in our lives that we only have so much of the day to make food. This internet, our cell phones, cable/ satellite with 400 channels to watch, not to mention all the things we recorded while we weren't home. Who wants to spend two, three, four hours making a great dinner plus all the cleanup?

My boss and I were talking some time ago and I told him I was going to get my pizza for the weekend. We got into a discussion about weight. Since he's been to Italy a few times, I asked him if everybody there was fat because they consume so much pasta? He said quite the opposite.

He said he had the same concerns, so he asked a chef in Italy about it. The chef said it's not the pasta, but what our pasta is made out of that makes us fat in the US. He said nobody in Italy would dream of making anything out of US foods.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Amazing to me how anybody can link the obesity problems of this country to any political party. This is how bad the far left and right have gotten.

It is political when members of a political party make it political. As per OP, Moochelle started that nonsense of school lunches, and her husband forced all restaurants to have calorie count on every item they sold. I would say that's political.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

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

Yeah kids are still fat after Michelle wasn't able to parent all the children in the world. What a fail!

I guess in the minds of leftists, it takes a village.......... maybe a very fat village, but a village.

 

[ClosedCaption]

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

Yeah kids are still fat after Michelle wasn't able to parent all the children in the world. What a fail!

I guess in the minds of leftists, it takes a village.......... maybe a very fat village, but a village.

Well I don't know but what I do know is that you're reasonable conclusion is that Michelle should've raised all the children and since she didn't it's a fail.

Again, totally reasonable

 

[Theowl32]

One of the main reasons why obesity is such a problem in America is because:

• food that is bad for you and makes you gain weight quickly is CHEAP

• food that is good for you and gives you nutrients without excessive calories is EXPENSIVE

Besides McDonalds or Burger King, where else can you feed a family of 4 dinner for under $20?

No one is stopping any of those people eating there from walking more. Seriously. That is the issue. Mcdonalds was not introduced to our world over the last 30 years.

Since 1975 cable TV, personal computers, endless video games and the internet. All occupying our time. Time that use to be used for outside activities by the kids. There is less of that. That is the problem.

For anyone thinking we are eating worse today than we did in the 50s or 60s don't know what the hell they are talking about.

Again, there were no healthy cereals being marketed, there were no gluten free products, no diet drinks, no healthy smoothies, and Mcdonalds was not selling salads or oatmeal. They are now.

There were no labels on anything being sold, there was no awareness, and most homes cooked with heavy oils like Crisco.

We were constantly exposed to second hand smoke since smoking was allowed everywhere, including hospitals.

The left wing media is trying to put the blame on an industry that was around when people were not as obese. The only conclusion is the lack of activity, but that does not fit with the control that the left tries to push on all of us.

Sort of like how that same media has somehow convinced us that race relations have never been worse, when in actuality it is never been better.

It is damn joke.

 

[Theowl32]

Amazing to me how anybody can link the obesity problems of this country to any political party. This is how bad the far left and right have gotten.

It is political when members of a political party make it political. As per OP, Moochelle started that nonsense of school lunches, and her husband forced all restaurants to have calorie count on every item they sold. I would say that's political.

In the meantime the left tries to push the fat shaming crap. Trying to tell us that being fat is not a bad thing.

The left push the obesity problem by attacking American capitalism, and then they push this crap in the same breath.

 

[beagle9]

Amazing to me how anybody can link the obesity problems of this country to any political party. This is how bad the far left and right have gotten.

It is political when members of a political party make it political. As per OP, Moochelle started that nonsense of school lunches, and her husband forced all restaurants to have calorie count on every item they sold. I would say that's political.

In the meantime the left tries to push the fat shaming crap. Trying to tell us that being fat is not a bad thing.

The left push the obesity problem by attacking American capitalism, and then they push this crap in the same breath.

I have never been fat, and I have eaten some of the most fattening foods one could have ever eat over the years. The key was that my activity level was at an all time high in which allowed me to burn off the fat before it took hold. I mean we're talking huge hamburger steak meals, triples from Wendy's, french fries, fried chicken, pork chops, super sweet tea, honey buns, doughnuts, blts for breakfast, sausage wraps, grits, eggs, waffle House pork chop and steak dinners, etc. and etc. I worked as hard as I ate, so it couldn't catch on to me. Never had high blood pressure, no diabetes, and still don't weigh but 210 pounds. Been changing my habits on eating, but it sure wasn't because of the Obama's. Now technology is causing me to be more inactive, and that is a bad thing, not to mention that my job also causes me to not get the excersize needed or the time needed to get a program going. Gonna have to do it though.

 

[Aldo Raine]

Amazing to me how anybody can link the obesity problems of this country to any political party. This is how bad the far left and right have gotten.

I maintain the issue is related to technology

Many, many factors indeed. People do not work at hard physical jobs anymore because of technology and automation. Also our foods are loaded with shit and people do not cook or use whole foods as much as before. Some due to both parents having to work or parent or parents having multiple jobs to make ends meet. Cooming becomes tougher so more fast food and prepackaged process foods. Most of us are guilty of one or even all of these.

That and who has time to prepare meals anymore? We have so much entertainment in our lives that we only have so much of the day to make food. This internet, our cell phones, cable/ satellite with 400 channels to watch, not to mention all the things we recorded while we weren't home. Who wants to spend two, three, four hours making a great dinner plus all the cleanup?

My boss and I were talking some time ago and I told him I was going to get my pizza for the weekend. We got into a discussion about weight. Since he's been to Italy a few times, I asked him if everybody there was fat because they consume so much pasta? He said quite the opposite.

He said he had the same concerns, so he asked a chef in Italy about it. The chef said it's not the pasta, but what our pasta is made out of that makes us fat in the US. He said nobody in Italy would dream of making anything out of US foods.

Hell I don't even have TV anymore and don't make as much time as i should preparing meals. Still prepare 5 days worth a week but fall down 2days worth. Yup it is tough and boring, with the kids grown and gone it definitely makes me a bit lazier about it.

 

[Aldo Raine]

Amazing to me how anybody can link the obesity problems of this country to any political party. This is how bad the far left and right have gotten.

It is political when members of a political party make it political. As per OP, Moochelle started that nonsense of school lunches, and her husband forced all restaurants to have calorie count on every item they sold. I would say that's political.

The school lunches do not effect you one bit, and I'm sure the whole calorie thing on the menu is oh so dangerous to you that it scares you. Christ pick a real battle here this is really small.

Even Trump feels it is frivolous or he would have written an EO for it.

 

[Tresha91203]

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.

My grandparents cooked in lard and bacon fat. They drank raw buttermilk, the kind you can see the fat globules floating around in. They overcooked their vegetables, and even deep fried most of them. Fruit was limited to Christmas oranges and cumquats that grew in the back yard.

They worked, though, sunup to sundown. Every chore was manual. Every child was put to work in the garden or in the cowbarn. They burned off their calories and rarely came across a fat person. Pawpaw died early at 70 and MawMaw lived to 99. Diet can be important; however it is FAR more beneficial to burn calories than it is to strictly control calories while inactive.

 

[Theowl32]

Amazing to me how anybody can link the obesity problems of this country to any political party. This is how bad the far left and right have gotten.

It is political when members of a political party make it political. As per OP, Moochelle started that nonsense of school lunches, and her husband forced all restaurants to have calorie count on every item they sold. I would say that's political.

In the meantime the left tries to push the fat shaming crap. Trying to tell us that being fat is not a bad thing.

The left push the obesity problem by attacking American capitalism, and then they push this crap in the same breath.

I have never been fat, and I have eaten some of the most fattening foods one could have ever eat over the years. The key was that my activity level was at an all time high in which allowed me to burn off the fat before it took hold. I mean we're talking huge hamburger steak meals, triples from Wendy's, french fries, fried chicken, pork chops, super sweet tea, honey buns, doughnuts, blts for breakfast, sausage wraps, grits, eggs, waffle House pork chop and steak dinners, etc. and etc. I worked as hard as I ate, so it couldn't catch on to me. Never had high blood pressure, no diabetes, and still don't weigh but 210 pounds. Been changing my habits on eating, but it sure wasn't because of the Obama's. Now technology is causing me to be more inactive, and that is a bad thing, not to mention that my job also causes me to not get the excersize needed or the time needed to get a program going. Gonna have to do it though.

I am not saying those eating habits are good. I don't know how old you are, but most of us simply slow down as we get older. Typically, that is the case.

Now, you are a perfect example of what I am talking about. I am too. When my osteoarthritis in my hip got so bad, I was basically immobile. I gained almost 50lbs in 4 years.

I ate the same basic way. Before I became immobile I walked at least 6 miles a day. Stayed the same weight and I was not eating kale salads with tofu.

However as I started to gain weight and as I became less active, I had to change my diet. That is when it is essential to have a proper diet. In fact, I would say it is vital, if you are not active.

Let's not be under the left wing delusion we are eating worse today than we did in the past. That is absurd on every level.

 

[tycho1572]

I feel bad for all those kids who went hungry because they couldn’t eat the school slop Michelle Obama forced upon them.

 

[tycho1572]