why can't the goverment mind there own business and realize people are no fatter than they were before?

Question

why doesn't the goverment feel they have the right to say how much people weight when your not allow to make your kid to any any more?

Answer 1

I'm all for the government minding its own business, but actually, people ARE fatter these days. And I'm afraid I don't fully understand WHY you're mad at the government. What is it doing that intrudes upon your life?

U.S. Obesity Trends 1985–2005
During the past 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States. In 1985 only a few states were participating in the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and providing obesity data. In 1991, four states had obesity prevalence rates of 15–19 percent and no states had rates at or above 20 percent.

In 1995, obesity prevalence in each of the 50 states was less than 20 percent. In 2000, 28 states had obesity prevalence rates less than 20 percent.

In 2005, only 4 states had obesity prevalence rates less than 20 percent, while 17 states had prevalence rates equal to or greater than 25 percent, with 3 of those having prevalences equal to or greater than 30 percent (Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Virginia).

The data shown in these maps were collected through the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Each year, state health departments use standard procedures to collect data through a series of monthly telephone interviews with U.S. adults. Prevalence estimates generated for the maps may vary slightly from those generated for the states by the BRFSS as slightly different analytic methods are used."


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"Health professionals have described it as a national epidemic. About nine million kids are affected. That amounts to 15 percent of American children, aged 6 to 11 years, who are considerably overweight. This number has actually tripled in the past 30 years. And the rates for obesity are actually greater for minority children. Over 25 percent of Black and Hispanic kids are overweight.

Not only is the pediatric population as a whole getting fatter, but the fatter children are also getting more obese, with super-obesity having increased almost 100 percent over the past two decades. Obese children are at high risk of becoming obese adults, and the more obese the child becomes, the greater the risk of obesity when they reach adulthood.

After some time the overweight child may experience elevated blood lipids, insulin resistance, high blood pressure, and other problems. The risk of an elevated blood cholesterol level is greatest among children with body weights above the 90th percentile.

Almost 7 million American children and teenagers are believed to have high cholesterol levels. Results from the Bogalusa and Muscatine studies indicate that children with elevated LDL cholesterol levels are at high risk of becoming adults with elevated LDL cholesterol levels.

Overweight kids are on a fast track to cardiovascular disease and diabetes, diseases that we usually associate with middle-aged adults. Pediatricians are alarmed at the rapid rise in the incidence of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents. Recent reports reveal that up to 40 percent of children with newly diagnosed diabetes have type 2 diabetes, the type closely associated with obesity. In addition to physical health problems, the overweight child also experiences emotional and social problems.

What are the reasons for the increased obesity we see in children today? Lifestyle factors are surely to blame. Many young people today follow a very sedentary lifestyle. Leisure time is so often spent watching television and DVD movies, playing computer games, surfing the web, or chatting on the internet, rather than outdoor play and activities. The government wants both children and adults across the nation to add to their lifestyle the habit of walking every day in an effort to curtail the obesity epidemic.

We have observed that the eating habits of children have substantially changed over the past two decades. Children are obtaining a greater proportion of their calories from fast foods and snacks that are typically high in fat, salt and sugar. These foods include ice cream, soda pop, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, pizza, french fries, shakes, chips, and candy bars, rather than fiber-rich foods such as fruits and vegetables.

Furthermore, portion sizes have increased quite dramatically leading children to consume more food. Over the past two decades, the average portion sizes of food has increased by 50 to 135 calories, while the average beverage serving increased from 8 to 20 ounces. As the portion sizes increase so do the waistlines of our children.

Another factor that impinges upon the nutritional quality of a child's diet is the fact that many American families don't eat meals together very often. Research shows that when children eat meals with their parents they eat a more nutritious diet. The nutritional quality of a child's diet is positively influenced not only by having a pleasant family atmosphere at mealtime, but also by having a good parental role model as far as food preferences are concerned.

Children who eat by themselves tend to eat foods high in fat, sugar and salt. But poor nutrition is not the only downside of allowing children to fend for themselves. Regular family meals also provide order, discipline and emotional security for a child. Psychologists have found that positive child-parent interactions improve a child's development and their cognitive ability.

It is really important that changes be made to help stem the national epidemic. Firstly, children should be encouraged to engage in a greater amount of physical activity including walking, cycling, and other outdoor activities. Body weight could be better managed if each child wore a pedometer and walked about 2,000 steps every day. School lunch programs need to provide more low-fat and low-calorie choices. Proper meal patterns should be established for the entire family with parents role-modeling good eating habits. Children should be encouraged to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, and less fast-food and processed food that is high in fat, calories, sugar and salt."

Answer 2

The government is in fact becoming a fascist dictatorship run by control freaks.
However, people are getting very fat. It is the garbage they put in their mouths like soda pop and chips, which the govt should regulate. But big business runs the government, and I mean bribes by the big corporationas and lobbying and so on. When I was going to school in the sixties and seventies, we literally did not have one fat child in the entire school, both in grade school and high school. People were still eating real food. Meat, vegetables, milk, fruit, and small amounts of carbs (rice/potatoes/bread).

Answer 3

I have to disagree with you. People are getting much much fatter and kids today are awful. When I was in school we remembered the one or two fat kids. Now its almost every other kid. If parents won't take the responsibility for their child's health and welfare, someone needs to give some guidance.

Answer 4

Your question is so badly written it's hard to figure out what it is you're asking. People ARE getting fatter, worldwide, and that is a strain on the health system when you have a disease related to you being overweight. If you let your children get fat you are irresponsible and basically sentencing them to a lifetime of health problems too.

Answer 5

Government is the problem. Its the end result of mindless masses putting idiots in charge of running everyone's life. Dr Frankenstein eventually came around to the idea that he had created a monster. But you can't blame the monster for being what it is.

Answer 6

i could merely say "Yeah i've got heard of it" and end it at that... you at the instant are not mendacity and on a similar time, not inflicting any drama between this woman and her brother. I bear in mind earlier I got here out, the final difficulty i needed became for individuals to be digging for counsel like that. incredibly, I nonetheless kinda despise that in the time of human beings. If he needs to tell her, he will.

Answer 7

I think its more private exercise people than the government. All the numbers and plans don't add up, unless one is a woman.

Answer 8

the government doesn't give a damn about how much we weigh, or if we smoke, or if we wear our seatbelts, the government cares about controlling our lives in increasingly minute details...the government is being taken over by some horrible machiavelian monsters who believe in a vision of life they wish to impose on us and are doing so in small increments...land of the free? hah! and watch out for hillary...she is the female adolf freaking hitler!

Answer 9

The government want to help the Health Insurance industry. Soon they won't cover fat people & Medicare won't either. Its the "Its your fault that you're ill" mentality.