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Ten times more children and teens obese today than 40 years ago
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zzyzzx
2017 Nov 30, 11:44am
zzyzzx
2017 Nov 30, 11:44am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-57-percent-kids-track-obesity-35-study-220411704.html
In US, 57 percent of kids on track for obesity by 35: study
More than 57 percent of children in the United States will be obese by age 35 if current trends in weight gain and poor eating habits continue, researchers warned Wednesday.
The risk of obesity is high even among children whose present weight is normal, said the report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"Only those children with a current healthy weight have less than a 50 percent chance of becoming obese by the age of 35 years," said the study, led by researchers at Harvard University.
Some 36.5 percent of the US adult population is now considered obese, a condition federal health officials define as having a body mass index of 30 or higher.
The study was based on a simulation model that predicted future trends based on height and weight data from five nationally representative studies of more than 41,000 children and adults.
"Obesity will be a significant problem for most children in the US as they grow older," it said.
"Of the children predicted to have obesity as adults, half will develop it as children."
Weight gain in a child's early years is particularly hard to reverse in adulthood.
Researchers found that among obese toddlers aged two, three out of four will also be obese as adults.
Children with severe obesity -- which affects 4.5 million children in the United States -- face only a one in five chance of being normal weight adults.
Racial and ethnic disparities in weight are already apparent by age two, with black and Hispanics more likely to have obesity than whites -- yet another trend that persists into adulthood.
In US, 57 percent of kids on track for obesity by 35: study
More than 57 percent of children in the United States will be obese by age 35 if current trends in weight gain and poor eating habits continue, researchers warned Wednesday.
The risk of obesity is high even among children whose present weight is normal, said the report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"Only those children with a current healthy weight have less than a 50 percent chance of becoming obese by the age of 35 years," said the study, led by researchers at Harvard University.
Some 36.5 percent of the US adult population is now considered obese, a condition federal health officials define as having a body mass index of 30 or higher.
The study was based on a simulation model that predicted future trends based on height and weight data from five nationally representative studies of more than 41,000 children and adults.
"Obesity will be a significant problem for most children in the US as they grow older," it said.
"Of the children predicted to have obesity as adults, half will develop it as children."
Weight gain in a child's early years is particularly hard to reverse in adulthood.
Researchers found that among obese toddlers aged two, three out of four will also be obese as adults.
Children with severe obesity -- which affects 4.5 million children in the United States -- face only a one in five chance of being normal weight adults.
Racial and ethnic disparities in weight are already apparent by age two, with black and Hispanics more likely to have obesity than whites -- yet another trend that persists into adulthood.
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Philistine
2017 Nov 30, 11:58am
zzyzzx says
Mother Nature is raycisss!!
Racial and ethnic disparities in weight are already apparent by age two, with black and Hispanics more likely to have obesity than whites -- yet another trend that persists into adulthood.
Mother Nature is raycisss!!
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anonymous
2017 Dec 1, 10:10am
jazz_music says
You may look into the past but right now on television we are subjected to the drug industries successful effort to hook every one on a dozen medical prescriptions.
look around we are being poisoned by the pharmaceutical companies.
Strategist saysYou have to take responsibility for your own actions. Same goes for alcohol, smoking,
Those are good examples.
I watch 1950's B&W episodes they have on this one cable channel. The really great ones like Alfred Hitchcock, Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip, Peter Gunn AND EVERY SINGLE SCENE of every single episode portrays tobacco and alcohol consumption as a normal and even preferred mode of social interaction among fashionable people.
It's just astounding the influence tobacco and alcohol had on television and everything back then. They show every desirable person/model in every enviable situation using their poison as if it were the ticket to heaven on earth.
After Americans got the class action suits going the heavy advertising promotions went overseas, again exploiting any weaknesses they encounter, and now, for example, you have first graders in ...
You may look into the past but right now on television we are subjected to the drug industries successful effort to hook every one on a dozen medical prescriptions.
look around we are being poisoned by the pharmaceutical companies.
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A further 213 million children and adolescents were overweight in 2016, finds a new study published Tuesday in the Lancet.
Looking at the broader picture, this equated to roughly 5.6% of girls and 7.8% of boys being obese last year.
Most countries within the Pacific Islands, including the Cook Islands and Nauru, had the highest rates globally, with more than 30% of their youth ages 5 to 19 estimated to be obese.
The United States and some countries in the Caribbean, such as Puerto Rico, as well as the Middle East, including Kuwait and Qatar, came next with levels of obesity above 20% for the same age group, according to the new data, visualized by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.
"Over the past four decades, obesity rates in children and adolescents have soared globally, and continue to do so in low- and middle-income countries," said Majid Ezzati, professor of global environmental health at Imperial College London in the UK, who led the research.
"More recently, they have plateaued in higher-income countries, although obesity levels remain unacceptably high," he said.
Over the same time period, the rise in obesity has particularly accelerated in East and South Asia.
"We now have children who are gaining weight when they are 5 years old," unlike children at the same age two generations ago, Ezzati told CNN.
In the largest study of its kind, more than 1,000 researchers collaborated to analyze weight and height data for almost 130 million people, including more than 31 million people 5 to 19 years old, to identify obesity trends from 1975 to 2016.
"Rates of child and adolescent obesity are accelerating in East, South and Southeast Asia, and continue to increase in other low and middle-income regions," said James Bentham, a statistician at the University of Kent, who co-authored the paper.
Obesity in adults is defined using a person's body mass index, the ratio between weight and height. A BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 is classified as a healthy weight, 25 to 29.9 considered overweight and 30 and over obese. Cut-offs are lower among children and adolescents and vary based on age.
"While average BMI among children and adolescents has recently plateaued in Europe and North America, this is not an excuse for complacency as more than one in five young people in the U,S. and one in 10 in the UK are obese," he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/health/child-adolescent-obesity-global-increase/index.html