A new study finds that Americans keep getting fatter. 10 years ago, 34% of American adults were obese, but today that number is 40%. Toddlers also gained significantly, from 10% obese 10 years ago to 14% obese today.
This trend should be setting off major alarm bells. Whatever we are doing, we are doing it wrong. Whatever the prevailing health and dietary advice has been these past 10 years, this study is strong evidence that it is wrong.
We should examine what that prevailing advice is and study whether or not people have been following it, whether it's capable of being followed, whether trying and failing is worse than not trying at all, whether other things are going on in the environment or in our food chain or in the pharmaceutical industry that are hindering our ability to follow good dietary advice, whether the best advice is even out there...
What is the best dietary / health advice and why isn't it helping cure the obesity epidemic?
I believe the source of our (American) problem began when "high fructose corn syrup" started being added to everything.
I really do not think other countries use as much high fructose corn syrup in out food as we Americans.
I think the wide spread use of it coincides with the obesity and diabetes crisis in America.
Just my opinion as one who struggles with both and does what he can to eliminate "high fructose corn syrup" from his diet.
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very good information about Americans.
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