Obesity in America Continues to Expand - yadda yadda yadda

[Tc]

http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/08/2-
3/hscout527577.html

Obesity in America Continues to Expand By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDayNews) -- Obesity rates continue to
climb in every state except Oregon, and government policies
and actions offer little hope of reversing the trend,
according to a new report Tuesday from the Trust for
America's Health.

The report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in
America, 2005, found that Mississippi is the heaviest state,
while Colorado is the least heavy.

More than 25 percent of adults in 10 states are obese --
Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee,
Texas, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana and South Carolina.

"Across the board, we have every state failing to meet the
national goal of 15 percent or less of the population being
obese," Shelley Hearne, executive director of the Trust for
America's Health, told a press conference.

"Bulging waistlines are growing, and they are going to cost
taxpayers more dollars, and it's going to cost us in years of
life and quality of life, regardless of where you live,"
Hearne added. "We can, and must, do better to start to turn
around this obesity epidemic."

Added study co-author Parris Glendening, president of the
Smart Growth Leadership Institute: "About 119 million
Americans are either overweight or obese. That's 64.5 percent
of adult Americans."

Excess weight is known to cause a variety of health problems,
including heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.

The number of obese American adults rose from 23.7 percent
in 2003 to
24.5 percent in 2004. The U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services set a national goal that obesity would be reduced
by 15 percent by 2010. An estimated 16 percent of active
duty U.S. military personnel are obese, and obesity is the
biggest reason for discharging soldiers, Glendening noted.

In addition, people on food stamps are more likely to be obese
compared with higher income individuals, Glendening said.
"There is a link between obesity and those with lower incomes
and less education," he added.

Glendening said that to fight the obesity epidemic, a
combination of individual responsibility and government policy
is needed.

"While it is indisputable that individual behavior -- eating
less and exercising more -- is critical to addressing obesity,
the government and private industry also have important roles
to play in setting policies and taking actions that make it
easier to help people make healthy choices," he said.

The report criticizes government policies as insufficient and
too narrowly focused to have a significant impact on
countering the obesity problem.

"The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and
should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise,"
Glendening said.

Glendening and Hearne believe that both state and federal
governments can institute policies to help Americans shape up.
They include combating suburban sprawl by increasing
recreation space, and improving nutrition and physical
education in schools.

"To really see a change in people's health, these programs
must grow significantly," Glendening said.

"We have a crisis in poor nutrition and physical activity in
this country," Hearne added. "It's simple math: we are eating
more and exercising less. And it's time we deal with it in a
much more systematic and realistic way."

An outside expert put it even more starkly.

"Obesity is arguably the gravest public health threat in the
United States today," said Dr. David L. Katz, the director
of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School
of Medicine.

Obesity is among the root causes of almost every major chronic
disease you face, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease,
breathing disorders and cancer, he added.

"This new report indicating that we are not doing enough to
control obesity should come as no surprise," Katz said. "We
are, in fact, doing quite a lot to make obesity worse. New
technologies that decreases our physical activity; new
processed food products that combine tasty calories with poor
nutrition; time wasted on silly distractions such as fad
diets, and policies and politics that squeeze physical
activity and opportunities for good nutrition out of the
typical work and school day all conspire against us."

Katz said that it will take a massive and comprehensive effort
to turn around the array of "obesigenic" factors that conspire
against everyone.

"But the effort will be worth it," he added. "Without it, we
face rising rates of chronic disease for as far ahead as we
can see. That is simply not a future any of us can accept."

----

"Eat less exercise more." Same shit they fed us 30 years ago
and we are getting fatter becasue of it.

TC

[Pickle-Hea]

And your enlightened solution would be... ?

Why don't you get off the net and go for a jog, or something?

[Jt]

On 23 Aug 2005 13:44:45 -0700, "TC"
<tunderbar@hotmail.com> wrote:

>http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/08/-
>23/hscout527577.html
>
>Obesity in America Continues to Expand By Steven Reinberg
>HealthDay Reporter
>
>TUESDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDayNews) -- Obesity rates continue to
>climb in every state except Oregon, and government policies
>and actions offer little hope of reversing the trend,
>according to a new report Tuesday from the Trust for
>America's Health.
>
>The report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in
>America, 2005, found that Mississippi is the heaviest state,
>while Colorado is the least heavy.
>
>More than 25 percent of adults in 10 states are obese --
>Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee,
>Texas, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana and South Carolina.

I am willing to bet that these states have the fewest
vegetarians per capita as well.

The food they eat is greezzy, fried, full of fat, etc.
>
>"Across the board, we have every state failing to meet the
>national goal of 15 percent or less of the population being
>obese," Shelley Hearne, executive director of the Trust for
>America's Health, told a press conference.
>
>"Bulging waistlines are growing, and they are going to cost
>taxpayers more dollars, and it's going to cost us in years of
>life and quality of life, regardless of where you live,"
>Hearne added. "We can, and must, do better to start to turn
>around this obesity epidemic."
>
>Added study co-author Parris Glendening, president of the
>Smart Growth Leadership Institute: "About 119 million
>Americans are either overweight or obese. That's 64.5 percent
>of adult Americans."
>
>Excess weight is known to cause a variety of health problems,
>including heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.
>
>The number of obese American adults rose from 23.7 percent
>in 2003 to
>24.5 percent in 2004. The U.S. Department of Health and Human
> Services set a national goal that obesity would be reduced
> by 15 percent by 2010. An estimated 16 percent of active
> duty U.S. military personnel are obese, and obesity is the
> biggest reason for discharging soldiers, Glendening noted.
>
>In addition, people on food stamps are more likely to be
>obese compared with higher income individuals, Glendening
>said. "There is a link between obesity and those with lower
>incomes and less education," he added.
>
How many vegetarians are on food stamps?

>Glendening said that to fight the obesity epidemic, a
>combination of individual responsibility and government
>policy is needed.
>
>"While it is indisputable that individual behavior -- eating
>less and exercising more -- is critical to addressing
>obesity, the government and private industry also have
>important roles to play in setting policies and taking
>actions that make it easier to help people make healthy
>choices," he said.
>
>The report criticizes government policies as insufficient and
>too narrowly focused to have a significant impact on
>countering the obesity problem.
>
>"The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and
>should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise,"
>Glendening said.
>
>Glendening and Hearne believe that both state and federal
>governments can institute policies to help Americans shape
>up. They include combating suburban sprawl by increasing
>recreation space, and improving nutrition and physical
>education in schools.
>
>"To really see a change in people's health, these programs
>must grow significantly," Glendening said.
>
>"We have a crisis in poor nutrition and physical activity in
>this country," Hearne added. "It's simple math: we are eating
>more and exercising less. And it's time we deal with it in a
>much more systematic and realistic way."
>
>An outside expert put it even more starkly.
>
>"Obesity is arguably the gravest public health threat in the
>United States today," said Dr. David L. Katz, the director of
>the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of
>Medicine.
>
>Obesity is among the root causes of almost every major
>chronic disease you face, including diabetes, cardiovascular
>disease, breathing disorders and cancer, he added.
>
>"This new report indicating that we are not doing enough to
>control obesity should come as no surprise," Katz said. "We
>are, in fact, doing quite a lot to make obesity worse. New
>technologies that decreases our physical activity; new
>processed food products that combine tasty calories with poor
>nutrition; time wasted on silly distractions such as fad
>diets, and policies and politics that squeeze physical
>activity and opportunities for good nutrition out of the
>typical work and school day all conspire against us."
>
>Katz said that it will take a massive and comprehensive
>effort to turn around the array of "obesigenic" factors that
>conspire against everyone.
>
>"But the effort will be worth it," he added. "Without it, we
>face rising rates of chronic disease for as far ahead as we
>can see. That is simply not a future any of us can accept."
>
>----
>
>"Eat less exercise more." Same shit they fed us 30 years ago
>and we are getting fatter becasue of it.
>
>TC

[Tc]

jt wrote:
> On 23 Aug 2005 13:44:45 -0700, "TC"
> <tunderbar@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/0-
> >8/23/hscout527577.html
> >
> >Obesity in America Continues to Expand By Steven Reinberg
> >HealthDay Reporter
> >
> >TUESDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDayNews) -- Obesity rates continue
> >to climb in every state except Oregon, and government
> >policies and actions offer little hope of reversing the
> >trend, according to a new report Tuesday from the Trust for
> >America's Health.
> >
> >The report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing
> >in America, 2005, found that Mississippi is the heaviest
> >state, while Colorado is the least heavy.
> >
> >More than 25 percent of adults in 10 states are obese --
> >Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee,
> >Texas, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana and South Carolina.
>
> I am willing to bet that these states have the fewest
> vegetarians per capita as well.

Why don't you actually do some research and then post the
data? Instead of just guessing that the numbers will fit your
silly little theory. You haven't a clue as to what the numbers
are, jackass.

>
> The food they eat is greezzy, fried, full of fat, etc.

More silly assumptions.

> >
> >"Across the board, we have every state failing to meet the
> >national goal of 15 percent or less of the population being
> >obese," Shelley Hearne, executive director of the Trust for
> >America's Health, told a press conference.
> >
> >"Bulging waistlines are growing, and they are going to cost
> >taxpayers more dollars, and it's going to cost us in years
> >of life and quality of life, regardless of where you live,"
> >Hearne added. "We can, and must, do better to start to turn
> >around this obesity epidemic."
> >
> >Added study co-author Parris Glendening, president of the
> >Smart Growth Leadership Institute: "About 119 million
> >Americans are either overweight or obese. That's 64.5
> >percent of adult Americans."
> >
> >Excess weight is known to cause a variety of health
> >problems, including heart disease, hypertension and
> >diabetes.
> >
> >The number of obese American adults rose from 23.7 percent
> >in 2003 to
> >24.5 percent in 2004. The U.S. Department of Health and
> > Human Services set a national goal that obesity would be
> > reduced by 15 percent by 2010. An estimated 16 percent
> > of active duty U.S. military personnel are obese, and
> > obesity is the biggest reason for discharging soldiers,
> > Glendening noted.
> >
> >In addition, people on food stamps are more likely to be
> >obese compared with higher income individuals, Glendening
> >said. "There is a link between obesity and those with lower
> >incomes and less education," he added.
> >
> How many vegetarians are on food stamps?

Probably most of them. They are all hippies, aren't they. But
I am just "guessing", like you.

TC

>
> >Glendening said that to fight the obesity epidemic, a
> >combination of individual responsibility and government
> >policy is needed.
> >
> >"While it is indisputable that individual behavior --
> >eating less and exercising more -- is critical to
> >addressing obesity, the government and private industry
> >also have important roles to play in setting policies and
> >taking actions that make it easier to help people make
> >healthy choices," he said.
> >
> >The report criticizes government policies as insufficient
> >and too narrowly focused to have a significant impact on
> >countering the obesity problem.
> >
> >"The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and
> >should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise,"
> >Glendening said.
> >
> >Glendening and Hearne believe that both state and federal
> >governments can institute policies to help Americans shape
> >up. They include combating suburban sprawl by increasing
> >recreation space, and improving nutrition and physical
> >education in schools.
> >
> >"To really see a change in people's health, these programs
> >must grow significantly," Glendening said.
> >
> >"We have a crisis in poor nutrition and physical activity
> >in this country," Hearne added. "It's simple math: we are
> >eating more and exercising less. And it's time we deal with
> >it in a much more systematic and realistic way."
> >
> >An outside expert put it even more starkly.
> >
> >"Obesity is arguably the gravest public health threat in
> >the United States today," said Dr. David L. Katz, the
> >director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale
> >University School of Medicine.
> >
> >Obesity is among the root causes of almost every major
> >chronic disease you face, including diabetes,
> >cardiovascular disease, breathing disorders and cancer,
> >he added.
> >
> >"This new report indicating that we are not doing enough to
> >control obesity should come as no surprise," Katz said. "We
> >are, in fact, doing quite a lot to make obesity worse. New
> >technologies that decreases our physical activity; new
> >processed food products that combine tasty calories with
> >poor nutrition; time wasted on silly distractions such as
> >fad diets, and policies and politics that squeeze physical
> >activity and opportunities for good nutrition out of the
> >typical work and school day all conspire against us."
> >
> >Katz said that it will take a massive and comprehensive
> >effort to turn around the array of "obesigenic" factors
> >that conspire against everyone.
> >
> >"But the effort will be worth it," he added. "Without it,
> >we face rising rates of chronic disease for as far ahead as
> >we can see. That is simply not a future any of us can
> >accept."
> >
> >----
> >
> >"Eat less exercise more." Same shit they fed us 30 years
> >ago and we are getting fatter becasue of it.
> >
> >TC

[Pickle-Hea]

We all know you are guessing too, TC. Posting this stuff
dosen't make it true, or do you believe everything you read in
the newspapers? Hypocrite.

[Tc]

Pickle-Head wrote:
> We all know you are guessing too, TC. Posting this stuff
> dosen't make it true, or do you believe everything you read
> in the newspapers? Hypocrite.

Was I addressing you? If I want you I'll rattle my zipper.

TC

[Pickle-Hea]

Oh, You're queer. That explains a lot.

And, YES, you were addressing me, and everyone else who read
this group.

[Tc]

Pickle-Head wrote:
> Oh, You're queer. That explains a lot.
>
> And, YES, you were addressing me, and everyone else who read
> this group.

troll

[Pickle-Hea]

Only you seem to think so. I'll take this up again after work.
Let's see how many posts you make today...

[Jt]

On 24 Aug 2005 07:20:58 -0700, "TC"
<tunderbar@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>jt wrote:
>> On 23 Aug 2005 13:44:45 -0700, "TC"
>> <tunderbar@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/-
>> >08/23/hscout527577.html
>> >
>> >Obesity in America Continues to Expand By Steven Reinberg
>> >HealthDay Reporter
>> >
>> >TUESDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDayNews) -- Obesity rates continue
>> >to climb in every state except Oregon, and government
>> >policies and actions offer little hope of reversing the
>> >trend, according to a new report Tuesday from the Trust
>> >for America's Health.
>> >
>> >The report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing
>> >in America, 2005, found that Mississippi is the heaviest
>> >state, while Colorado is the least heavy.
>> >
>> >More than 25 percent of adults in 10 states are obese --
>> >Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee,
>> >Texas, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana and South Carolina.
>>
>> I am willing to bet that these states have the fewest
>> vegetarians per capita as well.
>
>Why don't you actually do some research and then post the
>data? Instead of just guessing that the numbers will fit your
>silly little theory. You haven't a clue as to what the
>numbers are, jackass.
>
I doubt there is any research as except for Michigan most of
the people who live in these states are sub-human. But
anecdotally it is true in my opinion and I doubt you could
prove otherwise. To be a vegetarian requires some degree of
intelligence which does not exist in West Virginia etc.
>>
>> The food they eat is greezzy, fried, full of fat, etc.
>
>More silly assumptions.
>
Oh really? So tell me what do Weeest Virginnnians eat?
>
>> >
>> >"Across the board, we have every state failing to meet the
>> >national goal of 15 percent or less of the population
>> >being obese," Shelley Hearne, executive director of the
>> >Trust for America's Health, told a press conference.
>> >
>> >"Bulging waistlines are growing, and they are going to
>> >cost taxpayers more dollars, and it's going to cost us in
>> >years of life and quality of life, regardless of where you
>> >live," Hearne added. "We can, and must, do better to start
>> >to turn around this obesity epidemic."
>> >
>> >Added study co-author Parris Glendening, president of the
>> >Smart Growth Leadership Institute: "About 119 million
>> >Americans are either overweight or obese. That's 64.5
>> >percent of adult Americans."
>> >
>> >Excess weight is known to cause a variety of health
>> >problems, including heart disease, hypertension and
>> >diabetes.
>> >
>> >The number of obese American adults rose from 23.7 percent
>> >in 2003 to
>> >24.5 percent in 2004. The U.S. Department of Health and
>> > Human Services set a national goal that obesity would
>> > be reduced by 15 percent by 2010. An estimated 16
>> > percent of active duty U.S. military personnel are
>> > obese, and obesity is the biggest reason for
>> > discharging soldiers, Glendening noted.
>> >
>> >In addition, people on food stamps are more likely to be
>> >obese compared with higher income individuals, Glendening
>> >said. "There is a link between obesity and those with
>> >lower incomes and less education," he added.
>> >
>> How many vegetarians are on food stamps?
>
>Probably most of them. They are all hippies, aren't they. But
>I am just "guessing", like you.
>
>TC
>
Hippies are not on food stamps. They don't have jobs either,
thats where mommy and daddy come in.

>>
>> >Glendening said that to fight the obesity epidemic, a
>> >combination of individual responsibility and government
>> >policy is needed.
>> >
>> >"While it is indisputable that individual behavior --
>> >eating less and exercising more -- is critical to
>> >addressing obesity, the government and private industry
>> >also have important roles to play in setting policies and
>> >taking actions that make it easier to help people make
>> >healthy choices," he said.
>> >
>> >The report criticizes government policies as insufficient
>> >and too narrowly focused to have a significant impact on
>> >countering the obesity problem.
>> >
>> >"The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could
>> >and should be done to help people with nutrition and
>> >exercise," Glendening said.
>> >
>> >Glendening and Hearne believe that both state and federal
>> >governments can institute policies to help Americans shape
>> >up. They include combating suburban sprawl by increasing
>> >recreation space, and improving nutrition and physical
>> >education in schools.
>> >
>> >"To really see a change in people's health, these programs
>> >must grow significantly," Glendening said.
>> >
>> >"We have a crisis in poor nutrition and physical activity
>> >in this country," Hearne added. "It's simple math: we are
>> >eating more and exercising less. And it's time we deal
>> >with it in a much more systematic and realistic way."
>> >
>> >An outside expert put it even more starkly.
>> >
>> >"Obesity is arguably the gravest public health threat in
>> >the United States today," said Dr. David L. Katz, the
>> >director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale
>> >University School of Medicine.
>> >
>> >Obesity is among the root causes of almost every major
>> >chronic disease you face, including diabetes,
>> >cardiovascular disease, breathing disorders and cancer, he
>> >added.
>> >
>> >"This new report indicating that we are not doing enough
>> >to control obesity should come as no surprise," Katz said.
>> >"We are, in fact, doing quite a lot to make obesity worse.
>> >New technologies that decreases our physical activity; new
>> >processed food products that combine tasty calories with
>> >poor nutrition; time wasted on silly distractions such as
>> >fad diets, and policies and politics that squeeze physical
>> >activity and opportunities for good nutrition out of the
>> >typical work and school day all conspire against us."
>> >
>> >Katz said that it will take a massive and comprehensive
>> >effort to turn around the array of "obesigenic" factors
>> >that conspire against everyone.
>> >
>> >"But the effort will be worth it," he added. "Without it,
>> >we face rising rates of chronic disease for as far ahead
>> >as we can see. That is simply not a future any of us can
>> >accept."
>> >
>> >----
>> >
>> >"Eat less exercise more." Same shit they fed us 30 years
>> >ago and we are getting fatter becasue of it.
>> >
>> >TC