Why Obesity is rampant in the US
I don't normally eat in a buffet restaurant but the new Japanese/Chinese opened up a few blocks from my home sounded very enticing.I checked the menu and it seemed very healthy and interesting mix of food selection.
Voila, I have never seen so many people that are so overweight and eating like there is no tomorrow. I was thinking to myself, of course, this is one of the reasons why there is such a big problem in our country on obesity. We are of no self control to stop eating even when we are full because it is there. Then I thought of the skinny people in Europe. At least in France, although even in Switzerland, there is not too many overweight that I have seen whenever I visit there. Not as much as in my country anyways.
Every time I go there and visit Europe, when we were not eating out, my friend and I go to the supermarket, and look at the selections of foods and they are packed very small and very lean. Compared to my country, gosh it is mostly in large quantities. Okay, so we don't have to spend too many trips shopping for food. (I have always bought mostly my groceries to Costco and or Vons in California, while in the Mid West, Byerlys is a good place).
The point of this blog is to make sure that even if we go and eat in a buffet, we must not forget that overeating causes extra food stored in the fat cells. The problem is if we won't burn it, you know what happens.
Note:1. I have read about last year published on Time Magazine that our Health programs is enough to bankrupt our economy in the next 20 years if we don't improve our individual health and control our eating habits.
Only eat what our bodies can burn. I know it is easier said than done but we can do it. My children unfortunately are not as slim and skinny as me, but they are trying hard. Then they blame me for marrying an Irish man with big bones and heavy frame. lol.
Anyways, thanks for reading and sharing your opinions.
This is not about making fun and or insulting the big and heavy people. This is about improving our lives and be healthy.
Note: 2. Billions of dollars are spent on wasting foods, and then billions of dollars are spent on losing weight. Go figure.
Comments (51)
Us,tops it with 78 million adult or 33%
China 46-4.4%
India 30-3.8
Russia 28-24.1
Brazil 22-16.2
Mexico 20 -26.9
Egypt 18-35.9
Germany 16-35.9
Pakistan 14-13.6
India 11-6.8
The number of overweight and obese people has skyrocketed over the past thirty years, jumping from 857 million in 1980 to more than 2 billion in 2013. That's approximately a third of the world's population.
From US News.
Mexico, Us, New Zealand, Chile, Australia, Canada, Uk, Ireland, Luxemburg and Finland.
From google.
Many of the countries on the top ten fattest list are quite a shock! The country that made number one is probably not what you think it is!
Considering most of the Finnish diet includes cabbage, fish and other wild game, it's a bit of a mystery as to how 20.2% of it's population ended up obese. Perhaps they are frying up that fish a bit too often!
Each of this countries are given a bit of explanation such as the above country Finland. Rank number 10.
I think that! Some people just weight more then others! Not everyone is going to be the same size of each other. And also! It's in their family genes. Either their bigger, smaller or medium sized. We also! Suppose to watch what we eat/ drink at any body size. Especially! When we get much older.
For years! All my life. I Use to weight from 99 - 110. Now! At the age of 53. I now weight 140 lbs.
Anyways, I am saying is that we should only eat what we can burn. And I know I used to be on the gym only one hour and I am okay, now I have to be there at least 2 hours, three times a day.
Thanks for sharing your opinion my dear Angel.
Please let me know if there are buffets in your country?
Thanks.
The things that people have to do to lose or maintain weight is simple! Burn of more calories than you take in....excercise! Learn to do push aways from food table! Eat an apple and drink a big glass of water one hour before your meal! By eating the apple, it will help fill you up! Most people won't remember to do it or refuse to do it! Their choice.
Personally, I have cut back on my food intake! I also exercise. jmo.
In France and England there are also buffets.
Maybe I'll go and visit a few other countries and conduct a survey for you ?
Everywhere I have traveled there are giant buffets, usually "Chinese",and we do have them here. Eat all you want for a fixed price, and it is genuinely alarming to see how much people can eat.
I say "chinese" because a lot of food sold as Chinese isn't actually that common in China! Like the most popular curry in the UK, tikka Masala, was created here, not in India.
However obesity is also linked to genetically modified crops, which were originally intended to pack rapid bulk onto livestock. That same wheat is now in general use in cheap food, packing rapid bulk onto all of us. The billion-dollar diet industry loves it.
Buy the best food you can afford and eat less. Saving on your grocery bills is not a saving when your health is affected.
JMO.
Nothing beats Australia on the Opera on Hotel Intercontinental on Saturday. It is $150 AD per head but eat all you can on Lobster, fresh and so unparallaled even from the Maine Lobster in the US which is my favorite. At least in my opinion. I have eaten on some of the most expensive restaurants in some parts of the world and I can't compare that one.
But bottom line, don't eat more than you can burn. When I go to Fugo Chao and or JD Hoist here in the Mid West, I fast before I go and eat because I can't help but eat a lot. So I know how difficult to control when your favorite in front of you.
I only wild caught fish and my meat consumption is very limited to filet mignon and new york steak which is very lean.
GMO are really bad for us, but the size are very commercially pushed by the corporate greed for money because the bigger and heavier, the higher we pay.
What a message that movie has...
Have you seen it lindsy ?
I will google it. Although I have seen The martian my friend, and I am planning on the Revenant tomorrow.
And a lot of our food has very little food value,lots of sugar, and salt,
Obesity is one of the side effects of progress.
But I go to the store and look at the endless isles of food that are not health induced packed and I am wondering to myself, can you imagine these junk that we feed the people? Then organic food are way too expensive and of course people are buying food that are supposed to be with good price when in fact it is artificially made big so we pay with the weight.
As we talk about foods, I have told a few friends (who eat out a lot) to look at the amount of vitamin c in orange juice sold at fast food establishments. A lot of the orange juice sold there has No vitamin C in it, just sugar, and flavoring. I ve always associated vitamin C with orange juice,
The sister who is 62 yrs old who all she does is sit doesn't exercise has heart trouble eats mostly fast food everyday,takes all the sugar,fat, salt from her diet and drinks lots and lots of soda pop.
Yet the brother who is 52 eats and who does exercise everyday with his dog and only home cooked food,doesn't eat fast food or fatty foods and according to his doctor he's much healthier then the sister.
I can pretty bet the brother will outlive the sister.
That is another thing CC is the outlive part. I don't care much to live long if I become so wasted and useless for myself. I mean, where is joy and fun in that. Now my family, my grandmother who lived up to 103 is the healthiest and strongest person I have ever seen. But she didn't eat veggies, unless just harvested from the back yard. Not eat fish unless it is still jumping. Not eat meat unless it is just butchered and by the way, refrigerator is not a popular appliance there, although as soon as we had electricity, I was one of the first in the village to have one.
Anyways, yes, I suppose that will be the case for the brother and sister.
I happen to have ms, and have refused any of the new drugs, don t care to be a quiney pig. Don t see any benefits to people who have ms. I found the best thing for my ms is eating properly. Proper food, and diet is the best for me. Its not a cure, but it is the best thing for my ailments,
I ve often wondered how many pills proper diet and food would replace,
My family ate a lot of Venison cause it was supposed to be better then beef.Cause beef is full of hormones etc.
We always had fresh fish and fresh veggies compared to what the stores sell now.
It is sad nowadays that we can't trust the kinds of foods that are sold in stores.
My grandparents farmed, grew gardens, fishing and hunting supplemented their diet.
And growing up as a kid, I don t ever remember my grandparents getting the flu or a cold,
Gets me to thinking about food sold in stores,
Thanks Ito, that is a very good information to remember and I hope people will gladly step up and fight the proliferation of GMO products.
Chicken is the worst, how they are injected with a lot of chemical to grow fast and not get sick. yay..
as you already tell here about the Finnish way,I can still bring in some more facts....in Finland there are coming out information by TV programs,News Papers and a lot of almost everyday Blogs,how to eat healthy and about the over weight problems,still the problems are increasing,not decreasing....USA is on it own,because mostly of the hormones in the food and of course because the so popular fast foods,but believe me,the rest of the World is following and I can see that very clearly in Finland,when I compare the Finnish people from now,to the People from when I was young...there is completely a big difference.
Rolf
Rolf
I am always a believer of you are what you eat. Meaning eat healthy food and get the benefits.
Now in Antigua, I am sure there is more time in a year to harvest. In the States it is about half time. In the Philippines like Hawaii, it is almost all year round. Different kind of vegetables grow on either dry or rainy season and it is abundant, wild natural foods. Forage the mountains and in the field and we get so many shells, fish and organic vegetables.
Thanks Rolf.
By the way, I don't agree completely on the exercise and the reason is because I found not a single person who is exercising who is not healthy. In other words, it works for me, to be healthy is both eating right and exercise. I know it for myself.
Thanks again Sands.
my Son has injected a Danish MS patient with the Stem Cells he made and specially programmed,from the Patients own Bone Marrow....they did it in Russia and as he has been in the Wheelchair already for long time,not capable to use one of his hand anymore,it has been easy to see how the Stem Cells have affect him....many body functions in him are back and with more injections,there are all the possibilities,that he is coming back to normal life again,so there a cure on the way.
Rolf
I hope it is soon Rolf nad specially our friend Ito can have a benefit.
Thanks again Rolf.
yes,it was very simple what I remember,I was born just after the war had come to the end and we had to send horrible amount of industrial stuff to Russia,because,they made us war criminals,even they in fact start the war against us....we got a lot of support from USA,like financial loans,that we as the only country paid later promptly back and got half of the loans later forgiven...in Christmas time I remember how we Children got some gifts from USA,because our parents had no money to get anything for us....my Parents was in agriculture,so we was in little better situation,even they had to give much of produced stuff to the Government....all food we was eating was very fresh and you could feel the life in the taste...my Uncle had greenhouses and I remember how I got some small money from my Mother to buy one cucumber sometimes,and these cucumbers was so sweet,that the was like candy for us Children,the same with the tomatoes ....we also went with our Mother,when she was milking the Cows and she gave us of the milk there on the place,to drink it warm from our own cups.
It was a life of nature and marvelous tastes,but unfortunately I believe it is never coming back,because we live now in a life full of fake mass production....we need only to look at all these color 40 and other artificial stuff in the ingredients and you know what life we are living now.
Rolf
January 20, 2016
More than two years after the American Medical Association declared obesity a disease, a strong majority of Americans believe Congress should approve legislation to require Medicare to cover FDA-approved medicines to treat obesity.
Sixty-eight percent of Americans believe Medicare should invest in programs to reduce the rate of obesity, according to a national Ipsos poll commissioned by The Gerontological Society of America. The poll also found:
89 percent of Americans believe obesity is a problem in their state.
71 percent of Americans believe Medicare should expand coverage to include prescription obesity medicines.
77 percent were unaware that federal law specifically prohibits Medicare from covering patient costs for prescription obesity medicines.
73 percent of Americans were unaware that the FDA has found that current prescription obesity medicines are safe and effective in treating obesity.
Under the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, Medicare is prohibited from covering prescription obesity medicines. In the 13 years since the legislation passed, however, multiple medicines have been approved as safe and effective by the FDA.
The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act, which was introduced by Congress last year, would require Medicare to cover prescription obesity medicines. The legislation enjoys significant bipartisan support including 11 cosponsors in the Senate and 125 cosponsors in the House.
"Public policy and society seldom associate obesity with advanced age," said The Gerontological Society of America Executive Director and CEO James Appleby, BSPharm, MPH. "But recent research has shown that, for those who are over 65 and significantly overweight, the risk of mortality is far greater that it is for younger individuals with excessive body weight. The preponderance of evidence is clear: Obesity at an older age carries with it a plethora of health problems like diabetes and heart disease and the likelihood of premature death"
"Medicare must begin covering medicines to treat obesity because chronic diseases are a primary driver of higher costs in the Medicare system—and, as we know, obesity is a primary cause of chronic disease," former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said. "Common sense tells us that if Medicare begins covering these medicines, it would reduce the long term costs associated with obesity-related chronic diseases."
These are findings from an Ipsos poll conducted Dec. 9 to 15, 2015, on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. For the survey, a sample of 1,006 adults age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii was interviewed online in English. The poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for all respondents. Post-hoc weights were made to the population characteristics on gender, age, region, race/ethnicity and income.