Comments on: The Geography of Obesity

By: Witoslaw684

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By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:18:37 +0000

As a fat person who recently lost 60 pounds, it pains me to admit this, but obesity may not be the reason for the health problems cited.

As you note, all those things are correlations, and don’t prove

obesity -> causes -> (bad stuff)

search for “obesity paradox” on this site (I only discovered it recently)

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/

summary: fat people
live longer
have lower all cause mortality in a variety of situations
despite being discriminated against in medicine[*] and employment and sociologically

please browse that site for a while if you have the time. It will show you how the regular media is twisting the scientific truth horribly, by omitting or mis-reporting studies that prove the opposite of the mainstream message, and by over-hyping studies that prove the mainstream message.

[*] the anti-fat-person bias in medicine is legendary. The amount of nurses that are anorexic/bulemic must be second only to ballet dancers & models.

By: Michael G

Michael G — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:11:23 +0000

Nice scatterplots and how they are so consistent with the obesity and health problems correlation.

Just a quibble with the CDC’s map graphics. I think it should all be one color going from dark to light or light to dark. But if two colors are used, it is light blue that should be 15-19% and dark blue that should be <10%. IMHO for legibility

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re:place Magazine — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:21:56 +0000

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By: JH

JH — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:28:34 +0000

The problem is our government policy of subsidising farmers. They create very cheap, low-quality commodity grains. Then, agri-business takes those and makes cheap, high-calorie,low quality food.

When you have fritos sitting on the grocery shelf next to fresh fruit at 3x the price, what do you think most are going to grab?

Look at when subsidies started and where our bmi as a country was after 1950, now look at it.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:50:10 +0000

So there is a dubble problem in the US. Not enough and food of the wrong kind. Howe did that happen?

By: Mike L.

Mike L. — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:41:46 +0000

AJ, unfortunately, it looks like the food those 4 out of 10 do eat is the wrong food: high in calories and fats …

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:13:11 +0000

Last week I read; 4 out of 10 US citizens has got problems getting enough food per day. Howe do I get that in line with these figures?