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More obese people in the world than underweight, says study
Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:53 am
Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:53 am
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The research, led by scientists from Imperial College London and published in The Lancet, compared body mass index (BMI) among almost 20 million adult men and women from 1975 to 2014.
It found obesity in men has tripled and more than doubled in women.
Lead author Prof Majid Ezzat said it was an "epidemic of severe obesity" and urged governments to act.
The study, which pooled data from adults in 186 countries, found that the number of obese people worldwide had risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014.
Meanwhile the number of underweight people had risen from 330 million to 462 million over the same period.
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The research also found:
More obese men and women now live in China and the USA than in any other country
Women in the UK have the third highest BMI in Europe and the 10th highest for men
Almost a fifth of the world's obese adults - 118 million - live in only six high-income English-speaking countries - Australia, Canada, Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, UK, and the US
By 2025, the UK is projected to have the highest levels of obese women in Europe (38%), followed by Republic of Ireland (37%) and Malta (34%)
Being underweight remains a significant health problem in countries such as India and Bangladesh
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"People who are overweight and obese suffer life-changing consequences and it costs the NHS more than £6 billion a year. The causes of obesity are complex and the environment we live in encourages poor diets and low levels of physical activity.
We haven't had one of these threads in awhile.
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Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:55 am to GetCocky11
We should feed the fat ones to the skinny ones.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:56 am to GetCocky11
And this is why I don't donate to local food drives
Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:56 am to GetCocky11
We should have a program similar to soccer relegation where the top 1% of America's fattest people trade places with Africa's starving for a year. The great equalizer. 12 months time those starving children will be normal weight/obese and those fat fricks we sent over will be back to normal size. Win/win.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:56 am to TheCaterpillar
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We should feed the fat ones to the skinny ones
Or send all the fatties to the Sahara & send the skinny ones here...in 6 months everyone would be an ideal weight
Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:58 am to TheCaterpillar
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We should feed the fat ones to the skinny ones
We probably don't taste very good
Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:58 am to Wtodd
Shouldn't obese people pay higher insurance premiums? I mean, aren't they technically riskier to cover?
Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:58 am to GetCocky11
BMI is not the best indicator, but not everyone has easy access to real fat measuring equipment so it's a decent if not great tool. That said the biggest cause of this is a poor understanding of what real nutrition is and what it means to your body.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:59 am to Wtodd
My body mass index is 24.2. I'm good
Posted on 4/1/16 at 10:00 am to mindbreaker
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That said the biggest cause of this is a poor understanding of what real nutrition is and what it means to your body.
I've slipped this year but the past 3 years or so I take the fall/winter off and the spring/summer I'm super good with my diet and exercise. When I first started looking into good diet habits it really floored me thinking back to what we were all taught in elementary school about the food pyramid.
6-11 servings per DAY of bread/rice/pasta compared to just 2 servings of meat/fish/eggs/chicken/milk? Yeesh.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 10:02 am to GetCocky11
I see so many damn HUGE land whales around south Louisiana every day. The scary thing is the US is not even the most obese country anymore. Mexico and some of those small arab countries have even more deep fried belugas than we do. 
Posted on 4/1/16 at 10:03 am to WG_Dawg
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We should have a program similar to soccer relegation where the top 1% of America's fattest people trade places with Africa's starving for a year. The great equalizer. 12 months time those starving children will be normal weight/obese and those fat fricks we sent over will be back to normal size. Win/win.
Naw baw. Those are like 600lbers. Shipping costs would be absurd
Posted on 4/1/16 at 10:04 am to WG_Dawg
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I've slipped this year but the past 3 years or so I take the fall/winter off and the spring/summer I'm super good with my diet and exercise. When I first started looking into good diet habits it really floored me thinking back to what we were all taught in elementary school about the food pyramid.
6-11 servings per DAY of bread/rice/pasta compared to just 2 servings of meat/fish/eggs/chicken/milk? Yeesh.
You don't even need a ton of exercise. If you just get your food intake right, and stay away from the boxed and canned stuff, you'd pretty much be set.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 10:05 am to GetCocky11
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Shouldn't obese people pay higher insurance premiums?
Yes
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I mean, aren't they technically riskier to cover?
Yes, by a large margin. It increases your chances of heart disease, diabetes, etc. exponentially.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 10:06 am to WG_Dawg
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bread/rice/pasta compared to just 2 servings of meat/fish/eggs/chicken/milk
The bread/rice/pasta is fine. The paradigm shifted when those breads, rice, pastas all became super refined and void of nutritional value.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 10:08 am to GetCocky11
must be a lot of jacked up people in the world throwing off the stats
Posted on 4/1/16 at 10:10 am to GetCocky11
So the world weighs more now than it used to. Wouldn't this slow down our orbit and cause the year to be longer?
Posted on 4/1/16 at 10:15 am to GetCocky11
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You don't even need a ton of exercise. If you just get your food intake right, and stay away from the boxed and canned stuff, you'd pretty much be set.
This all day long. Exercising helps and is never bad but I tell everyone it's 90% diet. I used to be obese while I'm still overweight I've lost enough where I'm not in the obese category anymore.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 10:25 am to GetCocky11
Usually I trash BMI, but it's actually good in large population studies.
That being said what do you expect? Mankind spent the first 99.9% of its existence putting ever edible source possible in its mouth because it was constantly moving and didn't want to starve. Now we have evolved a more seditary lifestyle and our digestive system hasn't caught up.
That being said what do you expect? Mankind spent the first 99.9% of its existence putting ever edible source possible in its mouth because it was constantly moving and didn't want to starve. Now we have evolved a more seditary lifestyle and our digestive system hasn't caught up.
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