THE obesity epidemic may be slowing, but don’t take in those pants yet.
Just over a third of US adults are obese. By 2030, 42 percent will be, says a forecast released today.
That’s not nearly as many as experts had predicted before the once-rapid rises in obesity rates began leveling off. But the new forecast suggests even small continuing increases will add up.
“We still have a very serious problem,” said obesity specialist Dr. William Dietz of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Worse, the already obese are getting fatter. Severe obesity will double by 2030, when 11 percent of adults will be nearly 45 kilograms (100 pounds) overweight, or more, concluded the research led by Duke University.
That could be an ominous consequence of childhood obesity. Half of severely obese adults were obese as children, and they put on more pounds as they grew up, said CDC’s Dietz.
The basic problem is most people don’t have a clue how to eat healthy.
They think if it’s cooked and tastes good it’s healthy. WRONG!
Any food that’s put into heat over 118F loses the vitamin, fiber, and enzyme content of that food. In other words it’s mush at best.
Fiber helps the body feel full, enzymes assist the body in digestion, vitamins need no explination. If something needs to be cooked before it can be eaten, with the exception of protein foods, it shouldn’t be eaten.
Sir, humans can’t digest cell walls.
Vegetables must be cooked to derive
their nutrients.
Quit watching them late night TV ads.
Digestion doesn’t start in a boiling pot, that’s why humans have teeth and saliva.
Digestion starts in the mouth.
You should take some remedial science classes at night school and try to learn something about the human body.
http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/veg2.php
First of 56,000,000 sites on why cooking
vegetables is important.
“Many food faddists today recommend eating all raw foods. However, raw vegetables (plant foods) are very hard for anyone to digest, particularly anyone with digestive problems and/or those who have candida/yeast overgrowth.
The reason vegetables/plants are hard to digest is because their cell walls are mostly cellulose, and our digestive systems are incapable of breaking down cellulose. Therefore, the cellulose cell walls of all plant foods must be broken down before they are easily digested, and in order for the nutrients in them to be available, including minerals.
Breaking down cellulose cell walls of vegetables requires cooking them long enough for their “color” and “texture” to change, evidence that the cell walls have been broken.”
40+ years after getting my BS in biology, I see that man still can’t digest cell walls. Some things never change.
Ralph
Not cooking your food is just a fad. Funny thing about fads, the people who are part of them never see it as a fad at the time.
Yes you loose some nutrients during the cooking process, but the increased ease of digestion more than makes up for any loses in increased digestion of the rest. Which is more 10% of 100 or 40% of 80? This is so well studied over 4-5 decades it is undeniable on any scientific level. That is of course unless you masticate your food into the mentioned mush.
If you like raw veggies, fine, eat them that way. But don’t bother trying to convince others that they all need to do it. Everyone gushed about the atkins diet too…..how did that end? ……..it was a fad. Eat your food and I will eat mine and dont bother explaining your miracle diet advice. This is the junkscience website, expect people to call BS on claims of “everyone is wrong”.
Another item that is consistently ignored is that the definition of obesity seems to change every year. It seems like every year more people are defined as obese even when their weight doesnt change, but the definition of obese does.
Another aspect that the newsies consistently ignore is that poor health begins at two break points. The first break point is below the normal weight range and poor health increases with diminishing BMI. The second break point begins at the interface of the obese and morbidly obese categories; at that point poor health begins to increase with increasing BMI. The poor health line is essentially flat between those two break points. Obese persons are no less healthy than normal weight persons or low weight persons. The extremely morbidly obese are less healthy than the extremely underweight, probably because there is a hard floor on the low weight end and no ceiling on high weight. The nannies then draw a line of best fit for all data and claim, falsely, that increasing BMI is associated with poor health. Bah. Humbug
Yes, d. Ripped athletes in perfect shape are defined as obese by the BMI standards. There isn’t enough fat on one of them to grease a needle but the index screams “obese!”
When the automobile began to replace horse drawn transportation, the stables were remodeled into gas stations. With the global warming hoax being exposed they need a new boogeyman, a fat one.
I can play their game too. I will “assume” that everyone will eat 4 meals a day in 20 years………but I will also assume that we can all take a pill to keep body fat at 15% maximum. Since it is all about assuming things, my forecast is as good as theirs. If you could predict how people would eat even a few day in advance, there would never be another food industry failure. What garbage.
Lisa Jackson can be poster girl for this new government initiative.
Another element in the rising percentage of overweight people is the simple aging of the population. I weigh more now than I did at 35, dang it. Most people do gain some BMI as we age. Because there are fewer younger people, who are mostly slimmer, the average BMI is trending up. Couple that with the shifting definitions of overweight, obese, and morbidly obese, and you get a scary trend.
Funny thing — according to one set of nanny-bullies, I’m supposed to be okay with people whose appearance I consider sloppy and fat. According to another set of nanny-bullies, we’re all supposed to keep trim for society’s good. Which nanny-bullies are wrong? Maybe all of them.
Maybe all the nanny-bullies who got people to quit smoking.