How Do We Compare With Obesity Statistics in the rest of the world ~~~~~~>?

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# 1 United States: 30.6%
# 2 Mexico: 24.2%
# 3 United Kingdom: 23%
# 4 Slovakia: 22.4%
# 5 Greece: 21.9%
# 6 Australia: 21.7%
# 7 New Zealand: 20.9%
# 8 Hungary: 18.8%
# 9 Luxembourg: 18.4%
# 10 Czech Republic: 14.8%
# 11 Canada: 14.3%
# 12 Spain: 13.1%
# 13 Ireland: 13%
# 14 Germany: 12.9%
= 15 Portugal: 12.8%
= 15 Finland: 12.8%
# 17 Iceland: 12.4%
# 18 Turkey: 12%
# 19 Belgium: 11.7%
# 20 Netherlands: 10%
# 21 Sweden: 9.7%
# 22 Denmark: 9.5%
# 23 France: 9.4%
# 24 Austria: 9.1%
# 25 Italy: 8.5%
# 26 Norway: 8.3%
# 27 Switzerland: 7.7%
= 28 Japan: 3.2%
= 28 Korea, South: 3.2%

Why are obesity statistics highest in western countries?

Published statistics on deaths from smoking-related illness can be misleading. For example?

In one country it was claimed that in 2001 one in four deaths were from smoking-related illness, This figure included all deaths from lung cancer, heart disease, strokes and bronchitis. All these diseases can be caused by smoking. It was not recorded whether all those who died from these diseases in 2001 had ever been smokers. Some of these diseases can have a variety of causes. Heart disease can also be caused by poor diet, lack of exercise or obesity. So it is possible that fewer than one in four of the deaths were from smoking-related illness.
Which two of the following definitions of ‘smoking-related illness’ express the meaning of the term as used in the conclusion of the above argument?
A.  A fatal illness that has a variety of causes.
B.  A disease from which all smokers suffer.
C.  An illness that could have been caused only by smoking.
D A disease that has a number of possible causes, including smoking.
E. An illness that would not have occurred if the victim had not smoked.

Regarding health care, does this not make sense to you?

By Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

Washington, DC — With the Senate health committee convening daily to craft a comprehensive health reform bill, the basic outline of this landmark legislation is now clear.

Yes, it will ensure access to affordable, quality care for every American. But, just as important, it will hold down health care costs by creating a sharp new emphasis on disease prevention and public health.

As the lead Senator in drafting the Prevention and Public Health section of the bill, I view this legislation as our opportunity to recreate America as a genuine wellness society – a society that is focused on prevention, good nutrition, fitness, and public health.

The fact is, we currently do not have a health care system in the United States; we have a sick care system. If you’re sick, you get care, whether through insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, community health centers, emergency rooms, or charity. The problem is that this is all about patching things up after people develop serious illnesses and chronic conditions.

We spend a staggering $2.3 trillion annually on health care – 16.5 percent of our GDP and far more than any other country spends on health care – yet the World Health Organization ranks U.S. health care only 37th among nations, on par with Serbia.

We spend twice as much per capita on health care as European countries, but we are twice as sick with chronic disease.

How can this be so? The problem is that we have systematically neglected wellness and disease prevention. Currently in the United States, 95 percent of every health care dollar is spent on treating illnesses and conditions after they occur. But we spend peanuts on prevention.

The good news in these dismal statistics is that, by reforming our system and focusing on fighting and preventing chronic disease, we have a huge opportunity. We can not only save hundreds of billions of dollars; we can also dramatically improve the health of the American people.

Consider this: Right now, some 75 percent of health care costs are accounted for by heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and obesity. What these five diseases and conditions have in common is that they are largely preventable and even reversible by changes in nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle.
MEGAN – No honey, I definately don’t work for any medically related company.
I’m one of the folks they’ve forgotten about since I don’t have insurance anymore.

Why does Japan have such a high suicide rate? one of the worlds highest?

I am fasicnated by Japan, when looking up some statistics i found that they are one of the wealthiest countries, one of the most well educated countries, and have very low crime rates and low obesity rates. while looking through the statistics there was one for suicide.  I was curious so clicked on it, and apart from third world countries Japan was almost at the top of the list very close to Russia.

I was quite surprised, after all I learned about japan such as there traditions, love of children and family, good education, very technology savvy, fashionable, and fairly wealthy etc.

It seems the most popular form of suicide is using a lethal, painless gas, many people leave notes in the windows of cars and drive somewhere quiet and secluded like the mountains,  and gas out the car.  In fact there is so much suicide that people do it in big groups But why?   I know since the 90s (when the rise in suicide started) recession problems began to take effect. But the whole world has problems. America has poverty.  In England there are individuals who are social outcast.  France has homeless people.  These kind of problems seem to be common in every affluent country.  So why does Japan have one of the worlds highest suicide rates?

Feminists obsess about anorexia and our kids are carbohydrate addicts?

What are our priorities here? http://www.annecollins.com/obesity/statistics-obesity.htm

Where can I find information on obesity for my research paper?

I am in the 11th grade, and my school is doing a Graduation Project for people who entered high school as freshmen during the 2006-07 school year and after. It consists of a 5-8 page typed research paper on an approved topic of the student’s choice, a portfolio, a product, and a presentation..My rough draft for the paper is due this Wednesday. My topic is Obesity becoming an epidemic. Basically I am looking for websites that have obesity statistics in the United States, factors of obesity, diseases and health complications occuring from obesity, and other information relating to obesity. It would be extremely helpful if somebody could find some pages of information (not wikipedia) that would help me with my research paper. We have to have ten sources, with only two purely from the internet; the other 8 have to be from books or magazine articles or elsewhere. Help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Has the frequency of gout and kidney stones gone up over time?

We all here about the obesity epidemic, and that there is related increase of diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. What about gout and kidney stones, is that occuring with more frequency as well? Anyone know the statistics on this?

can someone explain this to me!!!!!!?

The dramatic statistics on the obesity epidemic in Australia has made government intervention inevitable and necessary. The most recent initiative has been the Rudd government’s $30 million ‘Measure Up’ campaign, which launched in October 2008. TV and print advertisements encourage people to measure their waists to check whether they are at risk of being overweight or obese.

Why do people from the fattest nation on earth have to illegally immigrate here to feed their families?

As the world continues to battle decades-old public health crisis—such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis—a new global obesity epidemic continues its startling growth towards mammoth sized proportions. It was recently reported that Mexico has surpassed the United States as having the highest percentage of obese citizens. In fact, an astounding 69.5% of people above the age of 15 in Mexico are overweight or obese. Over the past three decades the obesity rate has tripled. These are disturbing statistics because it means an increased rate of diabetes and other serious medical conditions such as heart disease. In fact, diabetes is currently the number one cause of death in Mexico. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6202362/mexico_has_the_worlds_worst_obesity.html?cat=5

To enjoy a healthy lifestyle, you need a license to drive & a license to get married.

Why don’t you need a license to unknowingly pass on an un-healthy lifestyle to your children?

Ironicly, the most important task any one of us will ever undertake, having and raising children, requires nothing other than conception. If you look at the statistics on child abuse, child obesity & childhood poverty in this country, you wonder why there is not some sort of mandated course or instruction on the basics of raising children. Should we require parents / couples / single moms / who are pregnant to undergo some sort of basic schooling on child rearing? Lets hear from you!

how common is child obesity in canada?

statistics on child obesity in canada

With technology taking over the world, is it still possible to enjoy the “simple” things in life?

Technology is a good thing in many ways…it can help with education, it’s vital for a lot of health care procedures, it creates jobs, etc. However, it can be a bad thing in many ways as well. For example, look at today’s obesity statistics of in children as well as the problem with teenage obesity. today – they’d rather stay in and play video games, watch TV or be on the computer instead of being outside, playing  in the “real world”. Relationships are being hurt because of technology addiction (video game addiction, computer addiction, etc). With all this technology, are we forgetting about real life? What are your thoughts?

Need some facts on obesity of children in CHINA?

writing a very important exam essay, need some ideas… would be so useful if ANY of these are answered… -how bad is this problem for the chinese pop. —are there figures to prove it? any statistics? -how might this have happened? —fast food? if so how many mcdonalds are there in china? how many a decade ago? —is it because of the one child policy? —anything else? -how will this affect society or the child’s health? —general obesity facts, what diseases or problems it may cause, can be general -how can this problem be changed/resolved? —what can the gov/families do? —any other resolutions?

iMPORTANT!! please I need….concerns CHILDHOOD OBESITY & T YPE 2 DIABETES IN CHILDREN!!?

does anyone know where I can find charts/graphs detailing the growing epidemic of type2 diabetes in children!! PLEASE show me type 2 diabetes in children over the years. I don’t want suggestions or opinions!  just graphs/chart!!  no statistics.. ONLY STATISTICS IF THEY INCLUDE EXACT PERCENTAGES OF CHILDREN WITH TYPE II DIABETES!! as in enough info to make a chart!! thankx

How much of the high cost for healthcare in America is caused by obesity and should obese people pay more?

I cannot understand how Americans are the fattest people in the world and the governments response is to ban certain food items for everyone. Why should the healthy and the disciplined not have any food they want available to them just because some have no self control? I say if the government wants us to pool our money to pay for coverage for all then those who neglect their bodies and health the most should bear the burden of the highest payments. What say you?

What do you think is the root cause of obesity in America today?

Why is 1/3 of the U.S. considered obese? What makes modern day living and eating habbits different than from 50 or 100 years ago. Why are we getting so fat and what can we do to help solve the obesity crisis?

what do you think the major cause of obesity in America?

i personally have eaten a lot of fruits and vegetables (non organic because i only learned what organic food was about 2 years ago) and im very skinny and healthy and strong. although i have eaten fast food hundreds of times, drank more than 100 gallons of soda prolly around 2000 gallons of soda i’ve drinken considering i drink soda everyday. pretty much i have eaten everything never been on a diet. so i think its a lack of fruits and vegetables, what do you think? also i dont exercise anymore haven’t exercised except walking in 7 years because of an injury i sustained when i was 16 but still haven’t gained any weight. although before i got injured i would work out 7 days a week. cuz it was extremly fun for me. but in the 7 years that i haven’t exercised since i havent gained any weight. very few people are genetically predisposed to be obese if any. how come America is the only country in the world with huge obesity?? peter jennings did a report that showed that its impossible for America to eat their RDA of fruits and vegetables because there isnt enough grown. and as i get older i get more healthy, i learn more and more things as i get older and actually get more healthy as i go along even though i dont do ANY vigorous exercise all i do mostly is walk and sex lol hey but that is good exercise! im actually healthier now than i am when i was 12 and im 23 and im confident ill be even healthier when im 30 and probably still healthier when i turn 40 and continue to get healthier towards 50 and i dont expect to get any less healthy until the age of 70 or 80 when age starts becoming a factor.

What do you think is the main cause of obesity in America?

& why?

What do you think is the main cause of obesity today in America?

And keep in mind it is not only diet or excersise, because it takes a combination of both to loose weight.

Does MSG cause the carbohydrate addicts problem we see today?

Food additive MSG (MonoSodium Glutamate) is a slow poison. MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as “Natural Flavoring.” MSG is even in your favorite coffee from Tim Horton’s and other brand-name coffee shops! I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, which results in carbohydrate addicts.  So did a friend of mine, John Erb. He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and spent years working for the government. He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a book he was writing called The Slow Poisoning of America. In hundreds of studies around the world, scientists were creating obese mice and rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies. No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so scientists have to create them. They make these creatures morbidly obese by injecting them with MSG when they are first born. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates, causing rats (and perhaps humans) to become obese. They even have a name for the fat rodents they create: “MSG-Treated Rats.

Is this real or fake? Email received titled ‘Food additive “MSG” is a Slow Poison.’?

I just received this email from several people. Can someone confirm if this is real or spam or an attempt to promote a book? Excerpt from email: Food additive “MSG” is a Slow Poison. Slow Poisoning MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as “Natural Flavoring”. I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, so did a friend of mine, John Erb. He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and spent years working for the government. He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a book he was writing called “The Slow Poisoning of America”. So why is MSG in so may of the foods we eat?.. Is it a preservative or a vitamin?? Not according to my friend John. In the book he wrote, an expose of the fo od additive industry called “The Slow Poisoning of America” he said that MSG is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the human body. End of excerpt.

Who is this author? what is the books name?

This author is a journalist with a famous magazine he has been reading books considering American eating habits this particular book have been an assigned book for incoming freshmen at many colleges across the united state recently. This book discusses Americas  epidemic of obesity, carbohydrate addicts, and type2 diabetes and explains how our eating habits have changed with pop culture shopping centers and environmental devastation.

Does Barack have the balls to tell Oprah to get off her morbidly obese fat behind and walk / take the stairs?

for Obamacare? Or will Barack go to the one who wears the pants in the White House, Michelle Obama? Oprah: “Oprah does not do stairs” http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/04/kitty_kelleys_new_book_oprah_h.html?hpid=topnews Michelle Obama: “The obesity epidemic is unacceptable”:

Why does Keira Knightley…?

I have noticed that when “eating disorders” and the “obsession to be thin” is discussed many people have pointed fingers at Keira Knightley and other figures in Hollywood receive blame for what may in fact be a natural body size. And although anorexia is not an issue to be belittled and the media/our culture does push a desire to be thin onto women, the “revolution” of plus-sized models and “Curvy is Cool” representation may, perhaps unintentionally, be encouraging the obesity epidemic. I don’t mean to insult overweight people personally, but the fact is that over half of America is overweight and along with that, comes an increased risk for many, many medical issues, an obvious one being heart disease. My womens and gender studies teacher showed us a powerpoint about eating disorders in which Keira Knightley was displayed beside Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. My sociology book had a picture of her too beside a caption that read, “The thinness craze encourages some people to extremes, as with Keira Knightley”. I was just annoyed because it assumed she was unhealthy and trying to give off a “thin is in” impression to the world when in interviews she has actually said, “I am quite sure I don’t have anorexia”. She went on to assert that she was naturally thin. I really feel that even though typically we may see “fat” women as targeted in our society, often thin women experience the same objectification. Do you think it is often assumed that women with very thin frames have eating disorders? I tend to think this perception, if true, is off base because some women are naturally thin, and though their BMI may point to “anorectic” they really do have fast metabolisms and tiny bone structures… why isn’t this differentiated between someone with pathological behavior? And why is it becoming “okay” in our society to be overweight? I don’t see people attacking or pinning supposed compulsive eating disorder labels on plus sized celebrities such as Queen Latifah…

My family are all carbohydrate addicts and we all enjoy a beer!

can the human body process and utilize the carbohydrates in beer?

(lite beer to be specific (C00rs Lit3 to be even more specific)) , but a general answer on all beer would also be appreciated

What carbohydrates are in beer that give it calories?

As a type 2 diabetic why do I have to be concerned about drinking beer? From what I understand barley malt (maltose) isn’t in beer because the yeast use it for alcohol and carbonation production. If maltose isn’t in beer what other carbs are? 10g per 12 ounce serving. Alcohol also has an energy content and comprises most of these calories

How much Carbohydrates/Sugar In Beer?

Does anyone actually know. It never says on the bottle?

How many carbohydrates are in the average beer and average shot of vodka?

I’m a type 1 diabetic which is why I’m curious

How many carbohydrates and how much sugar are there in beer compared to scotch whisky?