The average America female
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The scientist and researchers know exactly what the problem is. But the processing food companies are not doing a thing about it. With no help from the FDA.
I am glad to see one person post a non-fat shaming comment. This BBW loves you for this and appreciates your class.
Don't you remember math class? The average is a meaningless number since we're talking about the average of 300 million people. The morbidly obese ladies mess up the average.
But then the anorexics restore the average.
And, FYI, the mean, the median, and the mode of a sample are all averages. Any one of these measures can legitimately be used when quoting an 'average' number. These different averages can get used and misused to advance agendas. It is critical to be critical when statistics (or anything else) are being presented to you. Understand exactly how the sample was chosen, how it was measured, etc...
A great primer is 'How to Lie With Statistics' by Daryl Huff. It's now in its 40th printing or something like that. It was first published in the 30's so the examples of annual and hourly wages are way outdated, but the lessons are still valid.
Lots of men and woman have eating disorders in this world or they over eat and the stupid media brainwashes us to think aneroxic bodes look good.If your naturally thin and your not starving or purging to look that way then your healthy. So many woman are suffering to look like the hollywood image,and its literally killing them.
Population is also aging, I'm sure that has some effect, but still, this country needs to go for a walk....
Are you fucking shitting me? Have you picked up a magazine lately? Turned on a TV? Watched a movie? Walked down the street with a friend who was BBW/BBM? Fat shaming is as rampant as ever, Society does not accept that average at all.
Actually I have in the USA. And I see a lot of overweight parents with overweight kids overindulging themselves on processed, deep-fried and otherwise non-nutricious food. When I stay down there in one of my time shares I have difficulty finding any sort of variety of fresh fruit and vegetables in the grocery store. Its all canned and sugared. The frozen food aisles(3 sometimes) are vast the the fresh aisle is sometimes not even 1 in square footage.
I'm not a health nut by a long shot. But I do mostly my own cooking and use fresh ingredients. Shop for meat at real butchers(st lawr market) and use about 90% fresh fruit and veg. I cheat a bit in sides but I don't over portion. And I've only gone from a 28 waist to a 32 in 30 years since high school.
The processing and added sugar is a very real issue, as is the eating habits of many. To deny it is to allow it to continue. To enable it.
Just look at the diabetes rates. For kids. And tell me that this is ok......
Health care stats, age of onset of diabetes, heart disease and a bevy of other overweight related stats will tell the real story, or just sit by the walmart exit for an hour and do your own wideload count not only of obese women, but children and dads too. It's epidemic and very worrisome. Watch what rolls out of walmart in the grocery carts. Soda pop, frozen dinners, junk "food". Sickening
When I travel to the States, I go into shock at the level of obesity I see there. I feel so sad for those obese people. As a person who has lost 50# and maintained the weight loss, i have a great deal of sympathy for them. But, primarily, I really feel for the kids who are obese and don't stand a chance and will get diabetes and heart disease at an early age. Fast food nation is abhorrent. These kids aren't taught healthy eating habits from an early age so they will never know any better than to just drive up to the fast food counter. It really saddens me.
As far as the weight being 165 for the average woman, it is too high and at risk for heart disease and diabetes...it isn't a womanly weight. I can tell from personal experience these women don't like their bodies and are ashamed. It seems like menopause sets in and all hell breaks out with the female anatomy. For me, I had quit smoking and put a load of weight on. It doesn't feel good or womanly trust me.
Michelle Obama has been behind the scene doing a lot of promoting for healthy eating and focusing her attentions at the more indolent schools. She is on a mission and to be commended. More celebrities should join her plight because the youth weight problem has become epidemic.
As far as the weight being 165 for the average woman, it is too high and at risk for heart disease and diabetes...it isn't a womanly weight. I can tell from personal experience these women don't like their bodies and are ashamed. It seems like menopause sets in and all hell breaks out with the female anatomy. For me, I had quit smoking and put a load of weight on. It doesn't feel good or womanly trust me.
Michelle Obama has been behind the scene doing a lot of promoting for healthy eating and focusing her attentions at the more indolent schools. She is on a mission and to be commended. More celebrities should join her plight because the youth weight problem has become epidemic.
A good part of the issue is in the food supply. The big agros harvest and immediately process right. On site pretty much to maximize yield and profit. The preservatives are laced with salt and suger to increase flavour. Like I said above 3 aisles of instant frozen food. When I shop there that is what is fillling the carts. And people actually eating snack foods and drinking pop in the aisles, handing the empty packaging to be rung up.
Add in fast food, and the generic chains(appleby's, zaxby's,ihops etc) where people go all the time and everything is processed again for continuity and fried....well at no point is portion control or healthy eating easily available.
Add in the helicopter parents where the kids a scheduled as opposed to just being able to go out and play for hours like we did and this generation is actually expected to live a shorter life than the previous. Scary.
