So obesity is on the rise. You don't need a study to tell you that! Just look around you anywhere you venture and there they are in all their gross splendor. Here are a couple of photos I took from a couple of newspaper articles on the latest study:
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She actually needs a cane to keep her upright! |
We were at the Calgary Zoo the other day and I simply could not believe the hordes of morbidly obese young women in their 20s, toting babies and toddlers around. Obviously, they hadn't bothered to lose the pregnancy weight. G-d! What will they look like when they are my age?! When I was very young, I remember asking my Dad why some people are so fat? "Well, dear, just look at what they are eating." That was certainly the case in the food pavilion at the zoo. These young women were noshing on cheese burgers ad nauseum. It was pretty sickening. And their kids were fat too.
The latest study, 'Global Burden of Disease' published in 'The Lancet', says that obesity rates rose from 857 million people in 1980 to 2.1 billion in 2013, with a 47% increase in childhood obesity. That's just plain awful. Canada is just slightly behind the worst offender, the USA. Here, 65% of men and 49% of women are overweight. The worst news is that 26% of boys under the age of 20 and 22% of girls under 20 are obese. What surprised me was the rise of obesity in places such as China and India. Right up there, but not a patch on the Americans.
All very preventable if mothers actually knew how to scratch-cook for their families. Bring back home-ec!
Fantastic article!!!! I am one of those obese people -
ReplyDeletebut hey I've been half blind for the past three years, and am not allowed to swim at swimming pools because of the chlorine!!!!! SUPERB ARTICLE.
thank you so very much, B,A.M.F.