People who are 100 pounds or more overweight are the fastest-growing group of overweight people in the United States, researchers reported on Monday.
I can't think of a diet plans that I hadn't tried during the many years that I spent living in an Obese body. To be honest, you have probably tried most of them too! Rarely do I meet an overweight person who hasn't been on one diet or another virtually their entire adult life--but regardless of that fact; they are overweight and still trying to solve the problem and lose the weight.
I can't think of a diet plans that I hadn't tried during the many years that I spent living in an Obese body. To be honest, you have probably tried most of them too! Rarely do I meet an overweight person who hasn't been on one diet or another virtually their entire adult life--but regardless of that fact; they are overweight and still trying to solve the problem and lose the weight.
They found the proportion of the severely obese was 50 percent higher in 2005 than it had been in 2000 — a startling rate of growth.
“The proportion of people at the high end of the weight scale continues to increase at a brisk rate despite increased public attention on the risks of obesity and the increased use of drastic weight loss strategies such as bariatric surgery,” said Roland Sturm, an economist at Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research institute.
“The explosion in the use of bariatric (weight-loss) surgery has made no noticeable dent in the trend of morbid obesity,” Sturm added in a statement.
The researchers found that based on self-reported height and weight, which tends to underestimate the weight part, 3 percent of Americans are already severely obese — defined as having a body mass index of 40 or higher.
Body mass index is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of a person’s height in meters. The researchers, whose report will be published later this year in the journal Public Health, found that the proportion of Americans with a BMI of 30 or more increased by 24 percent between 2000 and 2005.
The proportion of people with a BMI of 40 or more increased by 50 percent and the proportion of Americans with a BMI of 50 or more increased by 75 percent.
The number of bariatric procedures, which include stomach stapling and stomach bypass surgery, rose to an estimated 200,000 in 2006 from 13,000 in 1998.
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The increase in stapling and bypass surgery is alarming for many reasons, perhaps most concerning is the fact that it doesn't actually SOLVE the Obesity crisis!
I received an email recently from a woman who had undergone bypass surgery a few weeks prior, in it she said "Please help me, I do not think that my gastric bypass surgery is going to work; I can't keep my Dairy Queen Blizzard down!"
Clearly, or at least it is clear to me, that her problem was and is NOT that her "stomach was staple deficient", but rather that her diet routinely includes eating Blizzards! I am going on the record as saying she did NOT need Gastric Bypass but rather needed (and needs) to BUST her VICE of consuming Dairy Queen Blizzards or DQ ANYTHING for that matter!
If Obesity rates continue to soar at the 50% rate that we realized in the past two years, it will not be long until Morbid Obesity is the norm and fighting it bankrupts our already fragile economy.
With that said, I have been cyber-fighting with a person via email. They are arguing very passionately that I am an idiot, that soft drinks, fast food and other junk are NOT why our nation/world is facing this pandemic of Obesity but rather lazy, undisiplined people who won't take responsibility for their own actions.
I can't disagree strongly enough. I think when Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Kraft, Keebler, Pepsi, Rally's, Dairy Queen, Mars, coerce (to compel to an act or choice ) the unsuspecting population into buying and eating their products through BILLIONS of dollars of advertisments which do not depict the reality.
(to learn about eating more fruits and vegetables click on the banner to your right that says recommended nutrition)
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