Canadian adult obesity on the rise

We have the same problem in the States. Western diets aren't the best but at least we are making changes.

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Since its near impossible to stop adults from being bad parents, something I believe that would help slow the rise in obesity would be change the way the schools treat it.

Bring back fitness requirements, for all grades k-12. Don't meet the fitness standards then you can't pass any classes. Start it young when children should naturally be able to do chin ups, sit ups, push ups and can run for miles. The standards would be what the min fitness standards are for CF basic training (by the time they are in secondary school).

Bring in school lunch programs that feed only healthy food. None of the prepackaged crap or fast food they eat.

Now of course there would be exceptions for people with medial conditions (being fat doesn't count)

If we were able to keep k-12 students fit threw out those 13 years then chances are they will keep that healthy lifestyle for the rest of their lives.

When they tried that at Grant Park High, in Winnipeg, the students all crossed the street to eat at Rotten Ronnie's because it was cheaper and served the food they wanted.



Maybe you should read up on disorders related to the thyroid, and insulin resistance(yes this happens in slim people too, and as a result there is weight gain). While most cases of obesity are the result of a lack of exercise and consuming too much junk food, not all are.

How fat do you have to be to be "obese"? Either way, school has nothing to do with it. Parenting does. If parents let their kids be INDOORS on TV, COMPUTER and VIDEO GAMES, then their kids will be fat kids that will become obese adults. I ate french fries every day in highschool and so did everyone I knew. We had our share of fat kids, but not like today. All the careful cafeteria planning you can do (you could hire the Joe-DiMaggio of cafeteria planning) and it wouldn't matter SHIT. Same with Phys-Ed classes. The only change that can make this go away is parents telling their kids to go the fuck outside.

obese can be a misleading term because it means overweight for your height regardless oif the extra weight comes from fat or muscle mass.

What percentage of obese adults are obese due to muscle rather than fat? Is it 1 in 1000? I bet it's fewer.

I'm on the computer or otherwise on my ass nearly 24/7. I've been thin as a whistle, and have actually dropped 10 pounds down to about 135-140 pounds from 145-150 since joining the CF. Exercise and dieting isn't everything, sometimes people are just meant to be fat, and some are just meant to be thin.

Anyone that is a body builder or an athlete with a large amount of muscle mass ie football players, rugby players, weightlifters, sprinters are technically obese. At the end of Basic training I was 190 lbs and 6'3" and according to the charts I was on the cusp of obesity.

Sure, but the stats are the stats. More people,per capita, are obese today than 10 years ago; more people were obese 10 years ago than 20 year ago, etc, etc...see what the TV and the automobile have done to us?

A friend of mine was like you. He was a firefighter at CFB Portage. The doctor's told him he was underweight and needed to gain more, so he started consuming more protein and bodybuilding. He eventually got up to 170, and he's 5'11"

Sure, but the stats are the stats. More people,per capita, are obese today than 10 years ago; more people were obese 10 years ago than 20 year ago, etc, etc...see what the TV and the automobile have done to us?

But there are those people who are fat, that are considered healthier and in better physical shape than the skinny guy who sits in front of a screen 24/7.

Yeah, and I was a rugby player and baseball player and hockey player in my youth and when I was 25 I was 5'10 190lbs and damn near 0% body fat (you could actually get negative body fat calculations on those old scales, remember?).

But my question was how many of the obese people in Canada, today, are that way because of athleticism? I'd be surprised if it's 1 in 10,000.

I'm still likely muscular enough to give you a tighteye if you keep disagreeing with me.

Ok, but bring along your dental records so your family can identify your remains