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CDC: Being Overweight or Obese Not Healthy
CDC: Being Overweight or Obese Not Healthy -- Posted by tigerlilly@Katehorton.net.org.com on 06-02-05 20:33
CDC: Being Overweight or Obese Not Healthy
Agency holds a news conference to counter its own recent report.
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- Backing off from one of her agency's own
studies just seven weeks ago, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention strongly reiterated the health dangers posed to the U.S. by the
epidemic of overweight and obese people.
A CDC report published in the April 20 issue of the Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA) suggested health risks to the average overweight
American might not be as bad as once thought.
But that's not what CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding said at a news conference
today in Atlanta.
"Obesity and overweight are critically important health threats in this
country," said "We have had a dramatic increase in the proportion of people in
our world that have obesity. That constitutes, in my view, a serious epidemic."
Over the last 20 years, rates of obesity and overweight in the U.S. have
skyrocketed, with 65 percent of adults now overweight and 30 percent obese. At
the same time, the number of obese youngsters has doubled to comprise 16 percent
of all American children.
The news conference was intended to help dispel confusion surrounding the issue
-- namely, the CDC report, which found that people who are overweight were
actually at a lower risk of dying than people of normal weight. The CDC also
reported that obesity accounts for 25,814 deaths per year, down from a previous
estimate of 365,000.
Gerberding appeared to attribute these figures to research methods, including
the difficulty of obtaining accurate estimates of deaths attributable to
obesity.
"Obesity is not listed on death records," she explained. "We have to rely on
extrapolations."
"Studies have used different methods and sources and have come to different
conclusions, so we have needed to get scientists in one room to straighten this
out," Gerberding added.
As for the contention that modestly overweight people had lower death rates than
normal-weight people, Gerberding said "there are some statistical aspects to the
study, and the author herself would not claim that overweight was protective of
ill health." The study's author was Katherine Flegal, a senior research
scientist for the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
Gerberding then specifically cited the dangers of being overweight.
"People who are obese experience an increased rate of hypertension, diabetes,
renal failure and some cancers," she said. "People who are overweight or obese
have an increased risk of arthritis and mobility problems, sleep problems and
breathing problems."
Overweight and obese children are increasingly being diagnosed with type 2
diabetes, once a condition confined to adults, she emphasized. Many also have
high blood pressure and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease and
stroke. "We may be seeing a very different profile of health status in our
country, and that's a very, very worrisome outlook if we don't take steps to fix
it," Gerberding said.
At the same time, Gerberding pointed out, the financial costs associated with
excessive weight gain are astronomical, with about $52 billion attributed to
obesity in 1995 and $75 billion in 2003.
What we don't know about overweight and obesity, however, may one day kill us,
she said.
Health experts still don't know how to estimate the impact of the epidemic on
death rates or how children will be affected in the long term, the CDC director
said.
And also, no one knows how to help Americans take off weight and keep it off,
she concluded.
The CDC, Gerberding said, is committed to finding many of these answers with a
new program combining 15 existing divisions within the agency and a new
marketing strategy intended to get up-to-date information to the public in a
timely fashion.
"We want to be very clear. It is not okay to be overweight," Gerberding said.
"Overweight is a health problem and people need to understand that it is
relevant to their personal health as well as the health of their children and
families."
More information
The CDC (www.cdc.gov) has more on overweight and obesity.
Copyright © 2005 ScoutNews, LLC. All rights reserved.
Re: CDC: Being Overweight or Obese Not Healthy -- Posted by Lady Veteran on 06-03-05 09:11
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>CDC: Being Overweight or Obese Not Healthy
>Agency holds a news conference to counter its own recent report.
You can take your alarmist propaganda and sit on a grenade.
I bet when your were born your mama cried because she wanted a
human being. They hubby divorced her because he though she was
messing with demon seed.
LV
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When the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank
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You are your greatest obstacle.
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If you are reading this in a group where the message
is cross-posted into more than three groups and subject is being fat,
it means the idiot who started this thread is trolling
me or soc.support.fat-acceptance and I flamed his ass.
I consider the idiots I flame a waste of humanity
and deserving of all of the ill treatment I can
hand them. Idiots who ridicule fat people are worse
then vermin as far as I am concerned. If you don't
want to read my responses, trim the groups to where you want
he message to go and you will not hear from me.Otherwise,
your eyes will burn from the venom in my reply.
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