Obesity Continues to Rise in Most States

Hold the presses, it's news!

"Massive public efforts to curb the U.S. obesity epidemic are falling tragically short, with populations in most states becoming more obese with each passing year, according to a new report that underscores the failure of initiatives aimed at promoting exercise and good nutrition.

The discouraging trends, reported in the fifth annual "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2008" report from the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), reveal that obesity rates rose in 37 states in the past year, while no state registered a decrease in obesity.

Worse, in 24 states the uptick continued a trend seen from the previous year. Obesity rates rose for a third consecutive year in a total of 19 states."

Of course.

What do you expect when weight loss advice is impossible, exercise advice is irrational, efforts are exerted at punishing the calorically responsible, parents are not held accountable for nutritionally abusing their kids, people accept weight loss advice from AdipOprah and her band of IMHO nutritional homicide maniacs, mandatory reporters of child abuse are complicit in child abuse and go unpunished, a non-medical problem is fought with the twin malpractices of pills and surgery, the media lie to us left and right and down the center, too, and more?

I guess if you are a politician or an idiot, you expect success.

And they are (disingenuously) surprised.

"'It's shocking, the rate of this increase& Our nation is in a public health epidemic that continues undiminished,' he said.

The findings suggest that Americans are further than ever from achieving the health goals set forth by Healthy People 2010 -- an effort that aims to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults to less than 15 percent and among children to less than 5 percent by the year 2010.

In fact, the report's authors estimate that if the the percentage of adults who are either overweight or obese continues to climb at the current rate, 75 percent of Americans will be overweight or obese by 2015.

'With each and every year, we see more and more evidence that the obesity epidemic continues to gain speed and force,' Marks said."

"Shocking"?

Hardly.

Not mentioned is the responsibility of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation whose support for clearly doomed to fail "solutions" serves only to waste resources and engender hopeless hopes.

The bottom line is that the people and institutions that have undertaken to save us from overweight/obesity are failing us and IMHO killing us and our children in the process.

Fight 'em.