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Some relevance to the "free market" where corporations and the government collude to offer the highest calorie and lowest nutrition foods to the populace......which then happen to ALSO enrich the 3 Trillion dollar Predatory Medical System.....
BTW, Trump just redesigned the food guidelines even more to satisfy the meat producers and the fast food corporations.
All the food pyramids have been lobbied for - corporations are people and corporations want people to be fat and profitable.
So don't blame those personally responsible for shoving tons of unhealthy food down their gullet, blame government because government is supposed to take care of you from cradle to grave. Adults take blame for their mistakes, children blame others.
It's going on all over America but it's amazing how fit and athletic people looked in West Virginia in 1981. Now, the state has 44% obesity among those 26-64 years old and thats only the percentage who admit to it on the phone.
Many of those claim to be obese, are likely morbidly obese. The obesity is especially skyrocketing among young adults, well over 40% in several states.
America is going to have tens of millions of people in their 30s and 40s who won't be able to work if the trends continue.
Many of the 40% young adults are that are considered obese will end up with decades of expensive chronic conditions and one health episode after another.
I don't worry about it, but it is very interesting how far this country has fallen in the last generation or two.
I really do think that the obesity along with the vaping and products people are prescribed which causes a slippery slope is going to be America's downfall and the quality of life is going the plummet in the next decade.
Wow, the rates are up all across America but a video of Charleston, WV shows a city where person a handful of people were not athletic looking in 1981 out thousands of people.
Now, the obesity rate is 44% for those 26 to 64 years old in the state up from 13% among the adult population in 1990.
We're victims of our own success.
Food is amazingly plentiful in this country due to the advances made by the agricultural industry over the past century. When resources are plentiful they are exploited. All life, including us, behaves this way.
In this case the exploitation manifests itself in obesity.
The food pyramid is basically a recipe for obesity.
Many people are starving from malnutrition even though they morbidly obese because of the extremely low nutrient density of the food many eat.
lol Where do you get this stuff?
Despite impressions to the contrary, most of the poor do not experience undernutrition, hunger, or food shortages.[10] Information on these topics is collected by the household food security survey of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA survey shows that in 2009:
As a group, America’s poor are far from being chronically undernourished. The average consumption of protein, vitamins, and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children and in most cases is well above recommended norms. Poor children actually consume more meat than do higher-income children and have average protein intakes 100 percent above recommended levels
Shame conservatives won't take responsibility for their health.
Shame you make things up about conservatives in order to deflect from the fact that not one progressive policy has ever worked and that small government works best. btw Republicans are not conservative. Not that you care about the truth.
W VA - 2016 repub gained power, it's was blue for a long time. Just to be clear, people were fat before 2016
Kentucky - more registered democrats than republicans been that way for a long time
Oklahoma - From 1992-2013, the Democratic Party was the majority in the Oklahoma State Senate for the first 15 years while the Republicans were the majority for the last five years Oklahoma was fat before 2009
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