A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
BanksyTags: humor statistics obesity
You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it.
Jennifer CrusieAccording to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. Three of every five Americans are overweight; one of every five is obese. The disease formerly known as adult-onset diabetes has had to be renamed Type II diabetes since it now occurs so frequently in children. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child's chances are two in five.) Because of diabetes and all the other health problems that accompany obesity, today's children may turn out to be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents. The problem is not limited to America: The United Nations reported that in 2000 the number of people suffering from overnutrition--a billion--had officially surpassed the number suffering from malnutrition--800 million.
Michael PollanTags: food children health health-care obesity diabetes fatties malnutrition
You know who they're blaming for global warming now? This is true. Fat people.
Craig FergusonTags: global-warming obesity
About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago.
Larry McClearyTags: food health nutrition obesity supermarkets food-politics
Associated with this weight gain are increased risks
in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart
attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death.
Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating
adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy
nearly $150 billion in 2009.
Tags: diet weight-loss obesity lose-weight overweight
In any case, seeing care for certain groups as an excessive cost reflects an arguably perverse way of thinking about health care in terms of human need. [...] In other words, care for the sick is an economic burden only in health care systems where profit is the bottom line and public services are underfunded and politically unsupported - that is, systems in which only market logic is considered legitimate.
Julie GuthmanTags: health health-care obesity
Oh, pity the poor glutton
Whose troubles all begin
In struggling on and on to turn
What's out into what's in.
Tags: food eating gluttony obesity glutton the-glutton
So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?
Wess StaffordTags: wealth diet poverty hunger obesity calories excercise two-thirds-world
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