Obesity Prevention Programs Have Little Effect

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Dec 122011
 

Obesity News:-A recent article by Medical News reports that Obesity Prevention Programs have little effect with weight loss. The studies (55) sites that kids want to eat more healthy and be more active, but these programs are NOT lowering the weight is test studies.

Eating healthy and more movement is not enough to lose weight, you need to get 30-60 minutes of strenuous exercise 5 times a week. making your child take out the trash and get the mail out the mail box is not enough exercise.

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Obesity in Australia-Morbid Numbers

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Dec 012011
 

Although most industrialized nations have have doubled obesity rates over the last 20 years, obesity levels in Australia and New Zealand are still rising, a new global study shows. Australians had the third largest increases in BMI in the world over the past 2 decades.

Obesity increases the risk of many diseases. Fat is deposited on our bodies when the energy (kilojoules) we consume from food and drink is greater than the energy used in activities and at rest. Small imbalances over long periods of time can cause you to become overweight or obese.

Here is a round up of Australian obesity facts & figures. Of great concern is the health consequence to Indigenous Australians, who are today twice as likely as non-Indigenous Australians to be obese and are ranked the fourth-highest population in the world that is likely to suffer from type-2 diabetes.

Obesity in Australia

  • In Australia, more than 17 million Australians are overweight or obese.
  • More than four million Australians are obese (BMI > 30.0 kg/m2).
  • If weight gain continues at current levels, by 2020, 80% of all Australian adults and a third of all children will be overweight or obese.
  • Obesity has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature death and illness in Australia.
  • Obesity has become the single biggest threat to public health in Australia.
  • On the basis of present trends we can predict that by the time they reach the age of 20 our kids will have a shorter life expectancy than earlier generations simply because of obesity.
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are 1.9 times as likely as non-indigenous Australians to be obese.

Secondary Complications

  • More than 900,000 Australians suffer from diabetes.
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have the fourth highest rate of Type 2 diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, or NIDDM) in the world and are 1.9 times as likely as non-indigenous Australians to be obese.
  • Australians reporting heart, stroke and vascular diseases aged 15 years and over were much more likely to be classified as overweight or obese than those without heart stroke and vascular disease (65% compared with 51%).
  • Health disorders in children like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, hypertension and sleep apnea can be directly attributed to childhood obesity.
  • Cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) account for approximately quarter of the burden of disease in Australia, and just under two-thirds of all deaths. These three diseases often occur together and share risk factors, such as physical inactivity, overweight and obesity and high blood pressure.
To combat obesity in Australia and New Zealand, we offer Isagenix in Australia as our obesity diet plan choice for the obese because the Isagenix weight loss systems work with natural cleansing and calorie restrictions with meal replacement shakes that do leave you feeling hungry and the preferred 30 day weight loss systems are also high in dietary fiber.

Obesity Statistics

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Nov 272011
 

U.S. Obesity Trends

National Obesity Trends                         Obesity

About one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese.
Approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years are obese.

During the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States and rates remain high. In 2010, no state had a prevalence of obesity less than 20%. Thirty-six states had a prevalence of 25% or more; 12 of these states (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia) had a prevalence of 30% or more.

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2010 State Obesity Rates
State % State % State % State %
Alabama 32.2 Illinois 28.2 Montana 23.0 Rhode Island 25.5
Alaska 24.5 Indiana 29.6 Nebraska 26.9 South Carolina 31.5
Arizona 24.3 Iowa 28.4 Nevada 22.4 South Dakota 27.3
Arkansas 30.1 Kansas 29.4 New Hampshire 25.0 Tennessee 30.8
California 24.0 Kentucky 31.3 New Jersey 23.8 Texas 31.0
Colorado 21.0 Louisiana 31.0 New Mexico 25.1 Utah 22.5
Connecticut 22.5 Maine 26.8 New York 23.9 Vermont 23.2
Delaware 28.0 Maryland 27.1 North Carolina 27.8 Virginia 26.0
District of Columbia 22.2 Massachusetts 23.0 North Dakota 27.2 Washington 25.5
Florida 26.6 Michigan 30.9 Ohio 29.2 West Virginia 32.5
Georgia 29.6 Minnesota 24.8 Oklahoma 30.4 Wisconsin 26.3
Hawaii 22.7 Mississippi 34.0 Oregon 26.8 Wyoming 25.1
Idaho 26.5 Missouri 30.5 Pennsylvania 28.6

 

Canada Obesity Trends

 

According to Statistics Canada’s published data for 2005, the rate of Canadians in the obese category (BMI higher than 30kg/m2) has almost doubled between 1978 and 2005, rising from 13.8% to 24.3% of the adult population that is almost 1 in 4 individuals. In 2005, the number of obese Canadians 18 or older was 5.5 million; 36% of the adult population was considered overweight; and 39% had a healthy weight. Underweight individuals represented 2% of the population.

 

In Québec, the proportion of obese individuals was 22% in 2004. Even though this is still lower than the national percentage, the gap is rapidly being filled. The Montréal and Québec regions are less affected, whereas Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Outaouais and the Gaspé peninsula are the most affected. British Columbia is the only province with obesity prevalence lower than Québec’s.

 

Over the last decade in the United States, the increase in obesity has been definitely more significant that in Canada. The American statistics show, using measuring tools similar to those used in Canada, that 30% of the adult population (18 or older) was considered obese in 2004.


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