Obesity Epidemic in America Going for the 3 Increases: Increase in Health, Increase in Happiness

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Obesity Epidemic in AmericaGoing for the 3
Increases Increase in Health, Increase in
Happiness Increase in Energy

• Strategies for Success in Weight Management
• By James J. Messina, Ph.D.

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Obesity Increase in United States

• Obesity has been increasing at an alarming rate
  in the United States since 1960
• By 1999-number of overweight people had risen
  from 44 to 61of national population, while
  number of obese people doubled from 13 to 27
• 34 of U.S. adults aged 20 to 74 years are
  overweight additional 27 are obese
• 13 of U.S. children are obese with both poor
  diet lack of exercise blamed.

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What is considered Overweight or Obese?

• Anyone with a body mass index (a ratio between
  your height and weight) of 25 or above -- thats
  someone, for example, who is 5-foot-4 and 145
  pounds -- is considered overweight, according to
  National Institutes of Health
• Anyone with a body mass index of 30 or above --
  such as someone who is 5-foot-6 and 186 pounds --
  is considered obese

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Obesity Facts

• 300,000 people die each year due to
  obesity-related causes
• Obesity is 2nd leading cause of death after
  smoking
• Being overweight or obese increases the risk of
  hypertension, heart disease, stroke, diabetes
  some cancers

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What is the cost of obesity?

• Americans spend more than 33 billion a year on
  weight-loss products services
• However economic cost of obesity in the United
  States was about 117 billion in 2000
• It is disquieting to note that obesity is a risk
  factor for four of the six most frequent causes
  of death

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Latest Findings on Obesity Epidemic

• Americans born during early 1960s are likely to
  become obese earlier in life than those born in
  late 1950s
• Black women Hispanic men face greatest overall
  risks for obesity
• Researchers at the University of North Carolina
  at Chapel Hill reported in a health study
  released on June 17, 2002

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Other findings from North Carolina Study

• Study of 9,179 people now in their late 30s
  early 40s found subjects born in 1964 were
  consistently heavier at specific ages than those
  born eight years earlier in 1957
• The younger group became obese while in their
  late 20s 26 percent to 28 percent sooner than
  the older group, which staved off obesity until
  their early to mid-30s

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Other findings from North Carolina Study

• People who were overweight by the time they
  reached the age of 21 were far more likely to be
  obese by age 37
• Women needed to be only mildly overweight to be
  at risk

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Other findings from North Carolina Study

• Black women become obese more than twice as fast
  as white women
• Hispanic men reach obesity 2.5 times as fast as
  non-Hispanic white men
• Black men white men tended to gain weight at
  about same rate until age of 28, after which
  blacks became obese 2.2 times as rapidly as
  whites

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Other findings from North Carolina Study

• Overall more than ¼ subjects-enrolled in U.S.
  Bureau of Labor Statistics National Longitudinal
  Survey of Youth in 1979, were obese by 37
• Most significant finding is fairly dramatic shift
  in how quickly obesity developed in younger group
• Its over 8 years, but if trend continues, could
  have implications for countrys health

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Implications of this finding

• By becoming obese at a younger age, you may be
  developing other problems at a younger age as
  well
• Other obesity related problems are hypertension,
  heart disease, diabetes, cancer depression
• Younger age groups may be more vulnerable to
  obesity because of changes in diet exercise
  habits

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Implications of this finding

• Obesity is difficult costly to treat, this new
  problem poses a dangerously unhealthy pattern
• Overweight children are at increased risk for
  becoming obese adults obese adults are, in
  turn, at risk for raising obese children

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How successful are dieters today?

• About 45 of women 25 of men are trying to
  lose weight at any one time, but only 1/5 are
  using recommended combination of fewer calories
  increased exercise-so they fail

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What should dieters be doing?

• Choose low-fat, lean foods from the five major
  food groups
• Eat sensible portions
• Use fats, oils, sweets and salt sparingly
• Total fat intake should be no more than 30 of
  daily calories
• Exercise moderately for at least 30 minutes on
  most days
• Lose weight gradually-aim to lose about 10 of
  your body weight over 6 months