Average American Woman Now Weighs As Much as 1960's American Man

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The David Pakman Show

[hlthe2b]

1. our future is going to be bleak if we can't turn this around for most people.... n/t

[Warpy]

3. We're going to have to figure out the whole puzzle first

It's not just fast food. It's not just laziness. It's not just more calories in than out.

For instance, they've found that the gut bacteria in obese people are markedly different from the flora in people who conform to insurance company tables. Then there is adenovirus serotype 36, which reprograms muscle tissue to turn into fat cells. There are likely other factors contributing to the epidemic, and it is following the classic pattern of infectious epidemics.

Another part of the puzzle is that fat shaming, like all other forms of bullying, leads to depression and a worsening of obesity in the target.

Dieting also leads to a worsening of obesity as the body struggles to pack the pounds back on plus more for the next starvation period.

I hope the puzzle gets put together sooner rather than later. Nobody wants to be fat. It hurts, even without all the shaming.

[hlthe2b]

5. yes... agree

[MillennialDem]

7. It really is calories in, calories out for the vast majority. Has nothing to do with fast food

I got a bit chubs (though nowhere near obese) and I didn't even eat fast food other than 700-1000 calories of taco bell every week or two.

I lost 3.5 pounds a week for 8 weeks by eating chicken sandwiches and running a lot.

[Man from Pickens]

2. Perhaps this phenomenon should be called...

Monsantozuma's Revenge

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. That's a mouthful,.....oh wait.

[Gregorian]

4. Sugar and cars

[freedom fighter jh]

6. Many factors contribute.

I wonder if one of them is overwork, people eating too much because they feel the need for energy because they are trying to do too much.

[progressoid]

10. More sedentary at work.

Less Active at Work, Americans Have Packed on Pounds

Looking beyond poor eating habits and a couch-potato lifestyle, a group of researchers has found a new culprit in the obesity epidemic: the American workplace.

A sweeping review of shifts in the labor force since 1960 suggests that a sizable portion of the national weight gain can be explained by declining physical activity during the workday. Jobs requiring moderate physical activity, which accounted for 50 percent of the labor market in 1960, have plummeted to just 20 percent.

The remaining 80 percent of jobs, the researchers report, are sedentary or require only light activity. The shift translates to an average decline of about 120 to 140 calories a day in physical activity, closely matching the nation’s steady weight gain over the past five decades, according to the report, published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/less-active-at-work-americans-have-packed-on-pounds/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. The 60s was when kids started taking vitamins and grew to tower over their parents.

[fbc]

11. This is one health crisis I can support.

I am attracted to curvy women.

[libodem]

12. And there is our guy Lewis

With teaching the critical thinking skills. Ya gotta love, Lewis.