So if there are roughly 300 mil Americans in USA

CDC estimates roughly 34% of adults are obese
with an average of 17 lbs more than ideal weight on each person(Gallup poll)

So this means roughly 102 mil americans are an average of 17 lbs overweight

meaning that we can expect an average of 1734 million lbs beyond design wandering around the continent at any given moment.


Reason for all the 2012 earthquakes EXPOSED?


Obama save us with your fat tax.

4/16/2011 2:21:56 AM

so what you're saying is

LIKE A ROCK



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4/16/2011 2:23:50 AM

4/16/2011 2:28:43 AM

17 lbs overweight is obese?

4/16/2011 2:39:33 AM

4/16/2011 8:28:13 AM

CDC is retarded. What the fuck is an "ideal body weight"? Everyone has a different body type therefor there is no "ideal body weight"



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4/16/2011 8:55:36 AM

That may be the case, but I'm inclined to agree that 1/3 of American adults are obese. Probably another 1/3 are overweight.

4/16/2011 9:28:41 AM

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"meaning that we can expect an average of 1734 million lbs beyond design wandering around the continent at any given moment."

well when there's at least 1.5 times that amount in 2050 does that mean california is going to slide off into the pacific millions of years ahead of schedule????

4/16/2011 10:51:37 AM

that 17 lb number can't be right for all 'obese' people. maybe 17 lb average for every person in America?

4/16/2011 11:09:45 AM

^ ^ ^ ^ ^

Nerdchick I had forgotten about the Guam tipping over comment until just now. Thank you for that.

Obviously this is a srs issue folks.

Increased industrialization causing unprecedented rates of extracting mineral wealth from the crust combined with the new technology of blasting artificial shockwaves into the earth when shellacking for petroleum only assist in the highest amount of human populations in the history of the earth. This also includes all the documented (and undocumented) underground nuclear testing creating blast energy underground. We are trodding around the crust in clockwork patterns as dictated by urbanized pathways, mandating tonnage pounding the same spots on the surface with rhythmic routine. The excess 1.5 billion pounds of biomass moving through infrastructure and architectural projects designed before the obesity problem can't be doing much of a service to the building foundations either. Could 40 thousand people all jumping up and down at once all at the same time potentially collapse an NFL stadium? Yes. Same principle of physics, folks.

Given these circumstances, there is only one logical conclusion: Mayan apocalypse.

Obviously we need to start voting dem to incorporate cap & trade so we can fix everything. Vote democrat, folks.

4/16/2011 12:18:57 PM

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"CDC estimates roughly 34% of adults are obese with an average of 17 lbs more than ideal weight on each person"

How exactly do they define obese? One pound over the ideal body weight?

I really can't tell what they are saying with that statement, but it sounds like they are saying that all obese people are an average of 17 pounds higher than their ideal weight. Meaning some are 100 pounds heavier than their ideal weight and there are a pant load (pun) of "obese" people that are only one pound higher than their ideal weight to make up the difference.

Anything to get the sensational "1/3 of Americans are obese" tag line on their findings I suppose.

Edit: I'm sure I'm misreading it though. Maybe you're saying that they said (oh this is fun) that 1/3 are obese - where obesity is undefined, and that ALL Americans are an average of 17 pounds overweight.

But yeah, you do see a lot of overweight people out there - and for every one you see you know there are like 5 more that are vegging at home because they are too lazy to walk around the store/parks/mall/etc.

[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 1:20 PM. Reason : -]

4/16/2011 1:17:11 PM

One thing I've learned from the tornado coverage is that there are a lot of fat people in Sanford.

4/17/2011 9:36:57 AM

I'm just shy of obese and am at 10 percent bodyfat. God, if only I could be ideal- I'd be obese and at a lower bodyfat...

4/17/2011 11:34:09 AM

i love the few ppl like duke or arcgreek acting like this figure is mostly made up of muscular dudes who BMI has shunned.

no, walk outside, ppl are fat as shit.

4/17/2011 11:57:53 AM

I am just shy of obese by BMI standards, and probably ~15% BF...

but no, my comment earlier was saying just the opposite: say what you want about the CDC, BMI, whatever that average of 17 lbs represents, etc. Just by going out and looking at people, I'd guess that 1/3 are obese, and at least another 1/3 is overweight.

4/17/2011 5:49:50 PM

bmi is only for large statistical populations, not individuals, mis-application of a tool at it's finest

4/17/2011 6:30:00 PM

my comments towards you duke mostly are due to past thread. the best was talking about how anyone could run a 5k, specifically under 30 minutes.

i think that showed you me you drastically underestimated how fat and lazy people really are.

4/17/2011 7:11:18 PM

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"CDC is retarded. What the fuck is an "ideal body weight"? Everyone has a different body type therefor there is no "ideal body weight""

their listed ideal body weights are relative to one's height

BMI tries to account for different types of bodies by using the height/weight ratio in its calculations

but it's obviously not perfect since bodybuilders show up as obese by BMI standards

obese is usually defined as having a BMI of 30 or higher

it's not the random "17 lbs over" that has been discussed in this thread

4/17/2011 7:29:09 PM

i am overweight

4/17/2011 7:42:57 PM

I am not overweight, and i've been trying to put on pounds, but I still feel like I 'get' what's going on here and I'm constantly worried about loosing my health to the common American causes.

Soft drinks were a huge thing. I gave those up a few years ago, and it makes a massive difference. I think that a daily soft drink is literally a difference of about 10 pounds. The thing is this: it's not a replacement. Soft drinks almost never trade for other calories. You stop drinking them and your routine does not pick up the slack and you're just consuming that much less.

Although I'm at the very lower end of the BMI scale, I still think of myself as being fat. I have far too much body fat, and I'm lacking muscle all too much. I eat out almost every day, but I pick & choose those to be fairly healthy and I feel like I do worse on my own.

I want to eat low carbs, high vegetable, high greens, high quality fats, and ample whey protein.

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"bmi is only for large statistical populations, not individuals, mis-application of a tool at it's finest"

The correlations of various disease rates with BMI is absolutely F-ing amazing. You are dumb and uneducated if you think otherwise. In terms of epidemiological correlations with health implications, about the only stronger correlation we know of is the fact that getting old will kill you.

And someone says "but these correlations don't establish causation in my case". I'm sorry, but they do. Every day you sit there with a high BMI you bring yourself closer to a litany of health problems.

I'm not exempt from this myself. My body fat is too high, and I need to do something about that. I'm exposing myself to risks that are... stupid. I need to eat better and be more active.

4/17/2011 10:31:24 PM