"A new analysis of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) has found that while 30% to 50% of blacks, whites, and Hispanics are obese, only 5% of Chinese Americans are. The data document the widespread epidemic of overweight and obesity across most racial/ethnic and age groups and among both sexes, say Dr Gregory L Burke (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC) and colleagues in the May 12, 2008, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.Burke told heartwire: 'The key finding is that the alarming rates of obesity that we are getting used to seeing are present here — and remember, this is a group of folks who were free of any cardiovascular disease at baseline. Our metric has changed, society has shifted up to an acceptance level of obesity, but when you bring in the Chinese Americans, it reminds us that those set points are wrong — obesity is not inevitable.'"
Now we have to convince people that obesity is not inevitable?
Crazy.
So is this:
"'We are coping with the obesity epidemic by having 40% to 60% of our participants on BP-lowering meds, 20% on lipid-lowering meds, and 10% to 20% on insulin or oral hypoglycemics,' says Burke, 'and there are a couple of parts to that. First, it's costing society money.' He and his colleagues estimate the direct costs of obesity to exceed $90 million annually in the United States. 'Second, the obesity epidemic looks set to reverse the 50-year decline in cardiovascular mortality that has been seen in the US and other Western countries." He adds that this is 'infecting' the developing world too, where 'the ability to have 40% to 50% of their population on antihypertensives is nil.'"
As it this:
"Burke says the fundamental issue is 'of calories being cheap and the move toward a more sedentary society.'"
That is NOT the fundamental issue.
The fundamental issue is too many Calories in relative to Calories out. Cost is not the issue.Caloric irresponsibility is.
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