Fat and Furious: The Rise of Obesity in the USA

Wait a minute, i just sat thru 4 "Hunger" PSAs on the T.V., either we are getting fatter or we are starving to death, you cant have both.
Follow the money, and see what agenda is being pushed with these diametrically opposed reports.

I suspect this is another Govt BS scheme.

I have seen a deer with a full stomach starve to death because they ate a lot of food they couldn't digest.

You CAN HAVE BOTH.

darn it alex.....i just ate some fried onion rings...you could post this tomorrow instead of right after i ate the yummy hot and wonderful tasting rings. "does my butt look fat?"

I have seen a deer with a full stomach starve to death

But were they obese?

The pig in the python moves on.

@wpdunn71901 - Perhaps the irony is that fat people are always hungry.

Yes, you can have both. While on average, Americans are becoming fatter, many of those who live in poverty (who do not represent the average American) are also still starving.

Doesn't mention that BMI is a flawed index, still lots of fatties out there

Yeah - I'm not surprised. Have you been to Wal-Mart lately? Growing up, Mom had to tell me to quit staring when we saw a fat person. Now, you can't help but see fat people. However, we won't talk about my waist line.

people eat when they are anxious, and the economy certainly has been making people anxious. so... either there's too much estrogen in the plastic and we're all turning into neutered girl men or we need to get out more. damn you tumblr and reddit!

There are fat people in all developed countries.

Get over it.

wpdunn, you're just being ignorant. There is no government agenda or media BS in reports about obesity or hunger in the U.S. Those who have money to eat, fill up on garbage and junk. Those who don't have enough money may still be obese because they eat off the dollar menu; at the supermarket, a box of mac and cheese is cheaper than a salad. There are also plenty in the U.S. who don't have enough money for rent and groceries for their whole family, so don't be so quick to dismiss the idea that yes, you can have poverty and obesity at the same time.

I would agree that obesity is increasing, but I wish they had based their maps on actual measured data rather than estimating, it from self-reported height and weight. I also can't find evidence of what population was surveyed - only people attending clinics serving diabetics, or persons with an interest in diabetes, or persons willing to talk on the phone about their health problems?

Lies, damned lies, and statistics -- Mark Twain

http://econlog.econlib.org/GQE/gqe142.html

"According to an American Medical Association report, 14.5 % of Americans in 1980 were obese, a total of 32,700,000 (based on a population of 226,000,000). If, as the above article states, the numbers of obese Americans have "doubled" in the past twenty years, this would mean there are now about 66 million of them. But thirty million of those fatties were created by a change in definition, so by the standards of 1980 [we would calculate an] obesity percentage of 12.85 percent, an actual decrease in obesity percentage since 1980."