40% Of US adults Obese

[PricklyPete]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/13/health/adult-obesity-increase-study/index.html

Yep, it’s just the genes. Definitely not the copious amount of sh!t we are collectively shoveling down our pie holes.

 

[highland145]

Maybe you should bike more?


kidding


My kid's BMI is a 17. I'll just let him share some of mine.

 

[Cappuccino]

Fake news. I thought 95% of US adults are obese? 40% is fake.

 

[deadlyapp]

Pretty sure it's the sedentary lifestyles that have evolved over the last 20 years or so. Sit at work. Sit at home. Sit everywhere. Also the rise in dual working parents, the increase in processed foods, and increase in children activities and you have no time or energy to provide healthy food to yourself or your kids.

 

[PricklyPete]

Pretty sure it's the sedentary lifestyles that have evolved over the last 20 years or so. Sit at work. Sit at home. Sit everywhere. Also the rise in dual working parents, the increase in processed foods, and increase in children activities and you have no time or energy to provide healthy food to yourself or your kids.

I’m sure it is a number of factors and I realize our cultural norms these days are not helping, but I hear people regularly saying it is out of there control when clearly it is not. And I live in a relative bubble when it comes to obesity.

 

[PricklyPete]

Maybe you should bike more?


kidding


My kid's BMI is a 17. I'll just let him share some of mine.

My BMI is 20...have a lot of work to do in getting to 17. I just sent my wife the link to explain why I’ll be riding all morning tomorrow .

 

[IronWing]

And I live in a relative bubble when it comes to obesity.

 

[cbrunny]

Only 40%? Did you increase the threshold for "obese"? Y'all are fuckin fat.

 

[IronWing]

Only 40%? Did you increase the threshold for "obese"? Y'all are fuckin fat.

Ya know snowmen are modeled after Canadians.

 

[highland145]

My BMI is 20...have a lot of work to do in getting to 17. I just sent my wife the link to explain why I’ll be riding all morning tomorrow .

He's 6'1" 130lbs

Only 40%? Did you increase the threshold for "obese"? Y'all are fuckin fat.

QFT

Ya know snowmen are modeled after Canadians.

lol I love this place.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Maybe you should bike more?


kidding


My kid's BMI is a 17. I'll just let him share some of mine.

Biking, I approve.

 

[FeuerFrei]

There are degrees of fatosity. Notice they didn't use the term "overweight."

It's more to do with physical inactivity, without reducing caloric intake, not necessarily overeating or gluttony.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Sad, even if completely unsurprising statistics. Human bodies have evolved to be incredibly efficient, which worked really really well for thousands of years when food was scarce. The food is plentiful now. Average healthy adult male only needs 2000 calories a day, females even less. A double cheese with french fries and a coke can easily top 1000 calories. Add all the snacking junk food that people munch on during the day - juices, soda, candy, chips, ice cream, lattes, and that easily pushes you over 2000 calories. From my personal experience, if I want to stay in a relatively healthy shape I cannot have any junk food whatsoever. I exercise though, but once again, exercise doesn't burn as many calories as people think it does, I bike about 25 miles a week plus I do bodyweight exercises at home. This exercise is the only thing that allows me to have some chips and soda or a small bar of ice cream once a week.

 

[Riverhound777]

Also need to keep in mind BMI is often useless for measuring obesity. I'm 6" 186lbs. I'm obese! But really i'm not even close. Anybody who has any amount of muscle will be obese by BMI standards. I'm not saying there aren't way too many fatty's in America today, but you can't trust random Stats.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Also need to keep in mind BMI is often useless for measuring obesity. I'm 6" 186lbs. I'm obese! But really i'm not even close. Anybody who has any amount of muscle will be obese by BMI standards. I'm not saying there aren't way too many fatty's in America today, but you can't trust random Stats.

I would estimate the number of people who have any kind of muscle mass significant enough to affect BMI calculation at 5% tops. You don't throw away something that works well enough for 95% of the population.

Also, according to your height and weight BMI scale puts you at 25.2, which is considered overweight, and not obese. You'd need to be above ~220lbs to be considered obese by BMI scale.

 

[highland145]

Sad, even if completely unsurprising statistics. Human bodies have evolved to be incredibly efficient, which worked really really well for thousands of years when food was scarce. The food is plentiful now. Average healthy adult male only needs 2000 calories a day, females even less. A double cheese with french fries and a coke can easily top 1000 calories. Add all the snacking junk food that people munch on during the day - juices, soda, candy, chips, ice cream, lattes, and that easily pushes you over 2000 calories. From my personal experience, if I want to stay in a relatively healthy shape I cannot have any junk food whatsoever. I exercise though, but once again, exercise doesn't burn as many calories as people think it does, I bike about 25 miles a week plus I do bodyweight exercises at home. This exercise is the only thing that allows me to have some chips and soda or a small bar of ice cream once a week.

This. "Assuming" the the calorie counter on the elliptical is any where close, I'll burn 400 in 30 min. That's a lot of effort compared to the rest of my day.

Also need to keep in mind BMI is often useless for measuring obesity. I'm 6" 186lbs. I'm obese! But really i'm not even close. Anybody who has any amount of muscle will be obese by BMI standards. I'm not saying there aren't way too many fatty's in America today, but you can't trust random Stats.

And like I mentioned in H&F, your insurance carries is more than happy to use that # to hike your rates.

 

[brianmanahan]

im super obese

 

[Riverhound777]

I would estimate the number of people who have any kind of muscle mass significant enough to affect BMI calculation at 5% tops. You don't throw away something that works well enough for 95% of the population.

Also, according to your height and weight BMI scale puts you at 25.2, which is considered overweight, and not obese. You'd need to be above ~220lbs to be considered obese by BMI scale.

Fair enough, I forgot the overweight category.

 

[interchange]

Also need to keep in mind BMI is often useless for measuring obesity. I'm 6" 186lbs. I'm obese! But really i'm not even close. Anybody who has any amount of muscle will be obese by BMI standards. I'm not saying there aren't way too many fatty's in America today, but you can't trust random Stats.

I can hardly imagine a man 6 inches tall and 186 pounds.

More seriously, the gut microbiome is probably a huge key here. I suspect at sometime in the next 30 years there will be a lot of change in how we see obesity and a lot of other things.

 

[Thebobo]

im super obese

Do you have special powers?

 

[Thebobo]

I can't watch the movie Wally because it reminds me of America.

 

[deadlyapp]

My BMI is 20...have a lot of work to do in getting to 17. I just sent my wife the link to explain why I’ll be riding all morning tomorrow .

BMI is a bullshit index anyways, I'm 24.8 according to BMI but am at around 12% Body Fat.

 

[brianmanahan]

Do you have special powers?

hungrier than a locomotive

 

[purbeast0]

Pretty sure it's the sedentary lifestyles that have evolved over the last 20 years or so. Sit at work. Sit at home. Sit everywhere. Also the rise in dual working parents, the increase in processed foods, and increase in children activities and you have no time or energy to provide healthy food to yourself or your kids.

It just boils down to people being lazy as shit.

Everyone has 15 minutes to make a healthy meal but it requires you to actually do "stuff" for 10-15 minutes to make the meal. It's easier to just sit in your car for 15 minutes in the McDonalds drive thru line.

And I'm sure the next reply will be "BUT ITS SO EXPENSIVE TO EAT HEALTHY!!!" when in fact it's actually cheaper for the most part. It CAN be more expensive, but it doesn't have to be.

 

[purbeast0]

My BMI is 20...have a lot of work to do in getting to 17. I just sent my wife the link to explain why I’ll be riding all morning tomorrow .

My BMI is 28.5. I'm so obese.