63% of Americans predicted to be fat soon....
Today's Post: Monday, 11-8-2010
Last Thursday, 11-4-2010, Reuters ran a story that a team of researchers at Harvard University said that based on the fact that people with fat friends or acquaintances are more likely to become fat, they predict that people with BMI’s over 30.0 will peak at 42% instead of 34%, about 26% higher.
But when you add the people where although their BMI is under 30.0 the women have waist sizes over 35 inches and the men have waist measurements over 40 inches, closer to 50% of Americans are actually fat right now.
And, 26% higher than that is 63%!
Before 100 years ago and for tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago, hardly anyone was sedentary. Soft drinks did not exist, so no one drank them. Packaged snacks and desserts and fast food and many of the food additives in them did not exist either.
So to the ways our bodies are set by our heredity to operate, absolutely NONE of those things was normal.
In that sense they STILL are not normal.
But, that is no longer the common perception of most Americans. Most children and young people today – and increasingly adults who should know better -- think of soft drinks and packaged snacks and desserts and fast food and many of the food additives in them as normal.
They tend, even the younger kids, to drink more soft drinks than water, milk, or real juice. They think it normal to have two or more packaged snacks or desserts each day.
They tend to watch more than 3 hours a day of TV seven days out of every week.
They go almost everywhere by car instead of walking there.
And, a surprising number get no exercise or extremely little other than that.
Since this is the lifestyle they see advertised on the TV they watch and see people around them following, most of them think this is normal.
And, because of this most of them think it is harmless.
Unfortunately, that is horribly wrong.
Each of these things alone are often harmful if you do them for many years. Doing them all for many years is reliably harmful. And, the medical costs generated are unbelievably high.
It’s pretty simple really, being fat enough to make you less mobile and having it mess up your sex life is NOT fun. But having to pay for drugs, doctor visits, and hospital stays and often not being able to work due to these things, is not only directly harmful to the people it happens to, is economically unsustainable past a certain point.
We’ve already past that point. If we let it get 26% worse instead of making it 100% better by cutting this kind of eating and drinking and lifestyles at least in half instead, this will be one of the anchors dragging down our economy and reducing the number of jobs it can supply.
Do you do any of these things?
If so, you can be dramatically healthier AND less fat, if you stop ASAP!
Do you drink soft drinks?
Not only do both regular and diet soft drinks make you fat, they also help cause heart disease, and type 2 diabetes, and just today it was reported that they make gout more likely too!
And, if you remove the refined grains, sugar, high fructose corn syrup – also to be known possibly as “corn sugar,” and salt and omega 6 oils and hydrogenated oils from packaged snacks, desserts, and fast food, you have very little left over.
These ingredients CAN be made to taste good and they are. But they also do virtually nothing for you other than calories and cause obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and tend to cause cancer.
Do you eat these foods several times a day? You would be dramatically healthier if you only had your favorite ones once or twice a MONTH or less.
Do you watch well over 21 hours a week of TV?
If so, by cutting back to 15 or less or exercising on a treadmill or stationary bike for any hours over 15, you can also be far healthier and less fat.
These changes are no longer what the majority of people do. But if you are doing these things and stop them all, within 2 years and without being any hungrier you can be twenty to seventy pounds less fat.
Not only that, your lifestyle can be very much the same and feel quite normal once you make that switch.
But more than that, unless more of us do this on our own or something huge helps most of us to do this, our bad economy may become very hard to improve.
Paying 10 % of our income for these foods and drinks and another 40% on the extra medical care we then need, leaves very little left over for everything else.
With that kind of drain, buying more clothes or a new car or saving money or investing any becomes extremely difficult or unlikely. There’s simply no money left over for it.
Meanwhile a story broke today that the companies who profit from supplying these things are advertising heavily to children and teens and despite claiming to do less have been doing much more instead.
This is no longer safe or sustainable.
Today's Post: Monday, 11-8-2010
Last Thursday, 11-4-2010, Reuters ran a story that a team of researchers at Harvard University said that based on the fact that people with fat friends or acquaintances are more likely to become fat, they predict that people with BMI’s over 30.0 will peak at 42% instead of 34%, about 26% higher.
But when you add the people where although their BMI is under 30.0 the women have waist sizes over 35 inches and the men have waist measurements over 40 inches, closer to 50% of Americans are actually fat right now.
And, 26% higher than that is 63%!
Before 100 years ago and for tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago, hardly anyone was sedentary. Soft drinks did not exist, so no one drank them. Packaged snacks and desserts and fast food and many of the food additives in them did not exist either.
So to the ways our bodies are set by our heredity to operate, absolutely NONE of those things was normal.
In that sense they STILL are not normal.
But, that is no longer the common perception of most Americans. Most children and young people today – and increasingly adults who should know better -- think of soft drinks and packaged snacks and desserts and fast food and many of the food additives in them as normal.
They tend, even the younger kids, to drink more soft drinks than water, milk, or real juice. They think it normal to have two or more packaged snacks or desserts each day.
They tend to watch more than 3 hours a day of TV seven days out of every week.
They go almost everywhere by car instead of walking there.
And, a surprising number get no exercise or extremely little other than that.
Since this is the lifestyle they see advertised on the TV they watch and see people around them following, most of them think this is normal.
And, because of this most of them think it is harmless.
Unfortunately, that is horribly wrong.
Each of these things alone are often harmful if you do them for many years. Doing them all for many years is reliably harmful. And, the medical costs generated are unbelievably high.
It’s pretty simple really, being fat enough to make you less mobile and having it mess up your sex life is NOT fun. But having to pay for drugs, doctor visits, and hospital stays and often not being able to work due to these things, is not only directly harmful to the people it happens to, is economically unsustainable past a certain point.
We’ve already past that point. If we let it get 26% worse instead of making it 100% better by cutting this kind of eating and drinking and lifestyles at least in half instead, this will be one of the anchors dragging down our economy and reducing the number of jobs it can supply.
Do you do any of these things?
If so, you can be dramatically healthier AND less fat, if you stop ASAP!
Do you drink soft drinks?
Not only do both regular and diet soft drinks make you fat, they also help cause heart disease, and type 2 diabetes, and just today it was reported that they make gout more likely too!
And, if you remove the refined grains, sugar, high fructose corn syrup – also to be known possibly as “corn sugar,” and salt and omega 6 oils and hydrogenated oils from packaged snacks, desserts, and fast food, you have very little left over.
These ingredients CAN be made to taste good and they are. But they also do virtually nothing for you other than calories and cause obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and tend to cause cancer.
Do you eat these foods several times a day? You would be dramatically healthier if you only had your favorite ones once or twice a MONTH or less.
Do you watch well over 21 hours a week of TV?
If so, by cutting back to 15 or less or exercising on a treadmill or stationary bike for any hours over 15, you can also be far healthier and less fat.
These changes are no longer what the majority of people do. But if you are doing these things and stop them all, within 2 years and without being any hungrier you can be twenty to seventy pounds less fat.
Not only that, your lifestyle can be very much the same and feel quite normal once you make that switch.
But more than that, unless more of us do this on our own or something huge helps most of us to do this, our bad economy may become very hard to improve.
Paying 10 % of our income for these foods and drinks and another 40% on the extra medical care we then need, leaves very little left over for everything else.
With that kind of drain, buying more clothes or a new car or saving money or investing any becomes extremely difficult or unlikely. There’s simply no money left over for it.
Meanwhile a story broke today that the companies who profit from supplying these things are advertising heavily to children and teens and despite claiming to do less have been doing much more instead.
This is no longer safe or sustainable.
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