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Nearly Half of Americans Battling to Lose Weight: CDC Data
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(Bloomberg) -- An estimated 49.1 percent of American adults battled to lose weight from 2013 to 2016, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with those between 40 and 59 years doing the most huffing and puffing.
Exercise, eating less, consuming more fruits and vegetables and drinking more water were the most common strategies. The least common were skipping meals and cutting down on fatty foods.
I have a VERY hard time believing this unless their criteria for attempting to lose weight would be doing things like eating a piece of fruit or drinking water and even then it would be a stretch to say 1 out of 2 do this. I wonder if someone drinks water claiming to try and lose weight if that counts as actively trying to lose weight with their data?
I think it is more likely that when asked, people who are overweight or obese will always say they are trying to lose weight, whether or not they actually made any real effort at it. I think the 26% of normal weight people who responded they were actively working on it are much likely to be telling the truth than the 60+% of obese people.
If people start drinking water and cut out sodas and frappuccinos, then they will probably lose weight. If they just drink more water than usual and otherwise eat/drink the same old stuff, then not so much.
I believe it, just walking around town you can see overweight people. I'm shocked at how much some people at work weigh.
And it's a trend that's been going on for years.
It reminds me of the discussion of why exercise isn't the best option for losing weight.
Never before in our lifetime have we had SO much information on what to eat, what exercise to do, how often, etc., yet we have continued to get fatter and fatter.
It has nothing to do with diet (keto, vegan, etc.), and everything to do with portion control and lack of control in caloric intake. How else to explain those people that went on an experimental diet where they ate nothing but McDonald's everyday for months (not talking about the Super Size Me documentary guy who ate a lot of excess calories per day)? Not only did these people lose weight, they were relatively healthy too. And that's because they actually ate below their caloric needs everyday without feeling hungry.
Not only have serving sizes gone up, we as a society have been conditioned for so many years to stuff our faces until our stomachs ache, that it's hard to back down and eat smaller portions. I don't think many people realize how many calories are in one donut, or one Starbucks frappucino, and that's just for snacks.. They think just because they did an hour on the stair stepper, somehow it magically negates eating excessive calories per day.
I don't think many people realize how many calories are in one donut, or one Starbucks frappucino, and that's just for snacks.. They think just because they did an hour on the stair stepper, somehow it magically negates eating excessive calories per day.
I agree that they don't realize how many calories they're taking in.
I'm watching a little girl in my family who is getting bigger and bigger every time I see her. Her mom is big and complains about her weight. Every January, she makes a new year's resolution to lose weight, buys a pair of yoga pants, and thinks that will do the trick. This mother eats for entertainment, and her little girl is learning to do the same thing. She's constantly eating "fun" food, and mom encourages it.
When she gets a little older and starts wondering how she got so big, she'll have no idea how it happened. Kids need nutrition education at school. They aren't getting it at home from their parents, apparently.
I have a VERY hard time believing this unless their criteria for attempting to lose weight would be doing things like eating a piece of fruit or drinking water and even then it would be a stretch to say 1 out of 2 do this. I wonder if someone drinks water claiming to try and lose weight if that counts as actively trying to lose weight with their data?
It says over 1/4 of adults who were trying to lose weight were actually underweight, or a healthy weight. It's NOT saying that nearly half of Americans are overweight. That's interesting.
I completely believe the link, although I think that "trying to lose weight" has a VERY broad interpretation. I think the key would be to ask if someone was on some kind of strict diet and adhering to it at least 75% of the time, the percentages would be about half as much.
If people start drinking water and cut out sodas and frappuccinos, then they will probably lose weight. If they just drink more water than usual and otherwise eat/drink the same old stuff, then not so much.
This is partly true.
Bottom line is, and I say this from years of experience in training people, working out, and being dedicated to physical fitness and health, obesity is almost always always always due to laziness (i.e., not wanting to do what is right for health/fitness) and/or ignorance (not knowing what to do for health/fitness). Another smaller portion of that is due to a type of mental illness. You know, like what you always see on tv shows talking about obesity, people always blaming their plight/weight on something that happened in their lives ("Momma died when I was 7...', "I had a bad relationship....." or "I was neglected when I was a child..." etc.).
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