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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
9:32:00 AM EDT
Hearing Ashanti's Letterbomb -- Dean Gray
Surprise! Americans are getting fatter!
The gravy train -- make that the sausage, biscuits and gravy train -- just kept on rolling in most of America last year, with 31 states showing an increase in obesity.
Mississippi continued to lead the way. An estimated 29.5 percent of adults there are considered obese. That is an increase of 1.1 percentage points when compared with last year's report, which is compiled by Trust for America's Health, an advocacy group that promotes increased funding for public health programs.
Meanwhile, Colorado remains the leanest state. About 16.9 percent of its adults are considered obese. That mark was also up slightly from last year's report, but not enough to be considered statistically significant. The only state that experienced a decrease in the percentage of obese adults last year was Nevada.
That's because they lost their shirts in the casinos.
Americans are getting heavier all the time, and one does wonder at what point this trend is going to flatten out. There has got to be an upper limit to just how chunky the average American can get.
Now, clearly, this isn't an issue of whether Americans are bad people for getting heavier -- we're a culture in which it's paradoxically easier to get fat than to stay thin -- but it's still something we all need to worry about. We were actually discussing this in a panel I was on this last week -- the fact that Americans are living longer and better, while at the same time becoming more obese and accruing the health issues that correspond to being overweight. It's a weird juxtaposition of health states, and it'll be interesting to see how it finally resolves itself, if it does at all.
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9:32:00 AM EDT
Hearing Ashanti's Letterbomb -- Dean Gray
The Chunkiliation Continues!
Surprise! Americans are getting fatter!
The gravy train -- make that the sausage, biscuits and gravy train -- just kept on rolling in most of America last year, with 31 states showing an increase in obesity.
Mississippi continued to lead the way. An estimated 29.5 percent of adults there are considered obese. That is an increase of 1.1 percentage points when compared with last year's report, which is compiled by Trust for America's Health, an advocacy group that promotes increased funding for public health programs.
Meanwhile, Colorado remains the leanest state. About 16.9 percent of its adults are considered obese. That mark was also up slightly from last year's report, but not enough to be considered statistically significant. The only state that experienced a decrease in the percentage of obese adults last year was Nevada.
That's because they lost their shirts in the casinos.
Americans are getting heavier all the time, and one does wonder at what point this trend is going to flatten out. There has got to be an upper limit to just how chunky the average American can get.
Now, clearly, this isn't an issue of whether Americans are bad people for getting heavier -- we're a culture in which it's paradoxically easier to get fat than to stay thin -- but it's still something we all need to worry about. We were actually discussing this in a panel I was on this last week -- the fact that Americans are living longer and better, while at the same time becoming more obese and accruing the health issues that correspond to being overweight. It's a weird juxtaposition of health states, and it'll be interesting to see how it finally resolves itself, if it does at all.
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Dear John,
I see nods sage advice.... well Smurfette, you're so pretty and petite so you don't have to listen !:)
natalie
8/31/06 7:44 AM
I'm just happy Americans can afford to get fat, because if oil were food, a lot of us would be starving.