From Health magazine
We are in the midst of a fat epidemic: An astounding two-thirds of American adults, including 65 million women, are overweight or obese—a rise of 10% in just a decade. If we keep it up, according to a new study, all adults in the United States (yes, everyone) will be overweight or obese in 40 years.
What’s with the huge numbers? In addition to our poor diets and sedentary lifestyles, one reason for the growing epidemic is that carrying extra pounds doesn’t seem dangerous to us; we don’t consider it life-threatening.
In fact, an American Diabetes Association (ADA) survey recently suggested that people are more afraid of shark attacks and snake bites than diabetes, even though diabetes contributes to more than 230,000 deaths every year—compared with 5 to 10 a year from sharks and snakes!
“People don’t take obesity or obesity-related illnesses like type 2 diabetes seriously enough because they don’t realize that they can have dire consequences,” says Ann Albright, PhD, RD, past president of health care and education for the ADA.
Being obese can lop as many as 20 years off your life and make the time you do have more painful (physically and emotionally), less healthy, active, productive, and sexy—and even less professionally and financially rewarding (thanks to weight discrimination). Even normal-weight people who have a high percentage of body fat are at increased risk of heart disease–related health problems like high blood pressure, high triglycerides, abnormal cholesterol levels, and insulin resistance, according to Mayo Clinic researchers.
In other words, fat is the problem. A big problem. It’s so big that we came up with this comprehensive list of fat-related issues that everyone—especially women—should know about. Keep in mind that, in most cases, losing even a small amount of weight can reduce or even reverse the risks. That’s why you’ll also want to check out our fat-blasting workout and fat-burning food combos. Start fighting fat now!
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Comments (8)
naagii, do you mean aneroxic? Because I am. My sister said so.
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Everyone keeps writing about fat but Americans keeps getting fatter and fatter so where is the disconnect????? Why are so many people obese? Why are there so many websites and books on slimness yet more than half of us are fat, really really fat.
Why do the same people work out all the time.
We were not always a fat whale like country!!
Someone needs to get to the bottom of this fat epidemic.
Unfortunately it’s all about education. You see some of the biggest obesity problems in poor neighborhoods, where education is suffering, and the cheap foods are those high in fat. Additionally, and this is my personal opinion based on my research and reading, those who are this obese don’t might not pay attention to the literature around them – either in avoidance or “well there’s no hope for me.” Laws like calorie posting in restaurants are a great step, but unfortunately those who would benefit most by cutting out a donut or two don’t understand what a calorie is, much less how many they need.
I think in order to stop this problem, the government needs to step in and implement policies like subsidizing fruits and vegetables instead of corn (high fructose corn syrup) and soy beans. But you’re right – we need to get to the bottom of the problem, not just keep reporting about the latest study that says obese people are more likely to have a heart attack. We know this and knowing more of this isn’t going to fix the problem!
Wonderful posting! When you think about an extra 20 good years on you life just by not being obese, and you then also consider improvement in the quality of your life, you just know you have to do something. I use a free online food diary at OptimalBodyWeight.com. It is great – it tells me how many calories I am taking in, and how those calories are made up from fat, carbs and proteins. By understanding that I am slowly learning what works for me and what doesn’t. I am determined to live a better life!