Okay, first we had the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that found last year 27 percent of U.S. adults age 20 and older were obese – as in 30 pounds above their ideal weight. That was up from 24 percent in 2005. Which was up from the 19 percent of obese adults in 1997. Once you add in the rest of the Americans considered overweight, the statistical scale jumps to more than 65 percent of Americans. Got that. Then a few weeks later, another study is released predicting that at the rate the U.S. is headed, 86 percent of adults would be overweight and a whopping 51 percent obese by 2030. Now comes what I call the Monster Thickburger (anyone else remember that 1,420-calorie Hardee’s sandwich) of all government-funded studies. It anticipates that every single solitary American adult could be overweight in 40 years (that is 2048) based on the trends over the last 30 years. These researchers also anticipate that by 2034 all black women and more than 90 percent of Mexican American men will overweight. All this research rests on the BIG (Mac) assumption that the trends of recent decades will march on unabated, researchers said. They called the study a “wake-up call” to show what could happen if Americans don’t start changing their lifestyles, starting with how much we eat and move. Okay, but after this fat study where do researchers plan to go next? Will they now start predicting overweight and obese fetuses? Maybe they’ll e ...
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Okay, first we had the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that found last year 27 percent of U.S. adults age 20 and older were obese – as in 30 pounds above their ideal weight. That was up from 24 percent in 2005. Which was up from the 19 percent of obese adults in 1997. Once you add in the rest of the Americans considered overweight, the statistical scale jumps to more than 65 percent of Americans. Got that. Then a few weeks later, another study is released predicting that at the rate the U.S. is headed, 86 percent of adults would be overweight and a whopping 51 percent obese by 2030. Now comes what I call the Monster Thickburger (anyone else remember that 1,420-calorie Hardee’s sandwich) of all government-funded studies. It anticipates that every single solitary American adult could be overweight in 40 years (that is 2048) based on the trends over the last 30 years. These researchers also anticipate that by 2034 all black women and more than 90 percent of Mexican American men will overweight. All this research rests on the BIG (Mac) assumption that the trends of recent decades will march on unabated, researchers said. They called the study a “wake-up call” to show what could happen if Americans don’t start changing their lifestyles, starting with how much we eat and move. Okay, but after this fat study where do researchers plan to go next? Will they now start predicting overweight and obese fetuses? Maybe they’ll e ...