{"id":505,"date":"2007-07-26T01:44:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T07:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2007-07-26T02:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T08:12:00","slug":"how-fat-can-we-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/how-fat-can-we-get\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fat Can We Get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"human jaws\" id=\"image624\" alt=\"human jaws\" src=\"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/434803_human_jaws%20250x187.jpg\" \/>The race to get fat is on!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And, according to research released by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhsph.edu\/\">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health<\/a>, most Americans are going to place in this race with a big fat blue ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>The research points out that if Americans keep gaining weight at the current rate they&#8217;re gaining; in <strong>just eight years<\/strong> 75% of Americans will be overweight and 40% will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/health\/weight-management\/obesity-in-children-and-teens\">obese<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raise you hand if you&#8217;d like to come in last in this race.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our kids are affected as well. It&#8217;s not fair to train them for a contest that will kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry if I sound agitated, I do tend to be chipper and positive &#8212; look on the bright side.<br \/>\nBut when my son and I go to the city park I count far more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/13\/overweight-girls-may-have-more-behavior-problems\/\">chubby kids<\/a> than slim kids. More parents sitting on the bench then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/parenting\/time-well-spent\/do-you-play-with-your-kids\">playing<\/a> Frisbee or swinging with their children. It&#8217;s sad. Many of the people my age aren&#8217;t going to live to see their grandkids. Fat will do them in early &#8212; if they even have grandkids. Studies show that overweight individuals have a much harder time conceiving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Right off the top of my head I can think of two revolutionary ways to stop this&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/category\/health\/weight-management\/\">Eat better<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/health\/exercise\/changing-the-way-you-exercise\">exercise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting out soda and fruity sugary drinks will help too. As will trimming down food portion sizes and actually hanging out with our kids; setting a good example by playing with them, outside in the fresh air.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other key points found by Johns Hopkins:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently 1 in 3 adults is obese.<\/li>\n<li>80% of African American women over the age of 40 are overweight.<\/li>\n<li>Asians born here in America are four times more likely to be overweight than their foreign born cousins.<\/li>\n<li>16-34% of children (11 million) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/health\/weight-management\/page\/2\">are overweight<\/a> and many more are at risk of becoming overweight.<\/li>\n<li>Women ages 20-34 years have the highest rate of increased weight gain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But no one is entirely off the hook. The overall fact remains that 75% of ALL Americans will likely be overweight by 2015. Imagine what this will do to the already escalating health care costs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">This is serious.<\/span> I hear peppy talks by fitness trainers. I see nicely worded articles about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/health\/media-reviews\/the-teen-weight-loss-solution\"> slimming down youth<\/a>. I feel all warm and fuzzy when I learn that yet another overweight<a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/pregnancy\/nutrition\/pregnancy-diet-how-to-eat-a-healthy-diet-during-pregnancy\"> pregnant woman<\/a> thankfully gave birth to a healthy baby.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">But honestly<\/span>, I think we&#8217;ve reached the point where happy pep talks and saying &#8220;robust&#8221; when we mean &#8220;grossly overweight&#8221; has got to stop. It&#8217;s not working. Maybe knowing that we&#8217;re willfully harming our children will work. Maybe considering that there soon won&#8217;t be enough healthy people to care for the unhealthy people will work. Is death a motivator to get in shape?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold\">If you&#8217;d like to see your children grow up healthy and happy you can visit:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanheart.org\/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3030527\">The Alliance for a Healthier Generation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ybhproject.org\/home.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Youth Becoming Healthy<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niehs.nih.gov\/kids\/weight.htm\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences<\/a> kids page<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthierus.gov\/\">Healthier US.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Why not make a choice right now that you and your children will lose this race. All you have to do to get started is click on a link above. It&#8217;s that simple. <\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race to get fat is on! 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