Diabetes up amid rising obesity (BBC story)

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Permalink Reply by Vonda K on October 24, 2007 at 11:03am

How do they come up with these figures "majority of us would be obese by 2050."?

Why do we let ourselves get obese? So many people that I know have type 2 diabetes and yet still do not loose weight. My sister and brother-in-law, who are both overweight, watched on tv that Women with a waist measurement of more than 35 inches or men with a waist measurement of more than 40 inches may have a higher disease risk. Did they measure their own waists? No! Did it encourage them to loose weight? No. Why?

Why did it take me 8 years to loose the extra 17 1/2 kgs I was carrying around with me? Why even now when I know whats good for me do I eat crisps chocolate and ice cream?

Oh to live on a mountain top with no processed or fast food.

Vonda K

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Permalink Reply by margaret armstrong on October 7, 2009 at 12:16am

try a web site by linda bacon phd she is an american who talks a lot of sense about size and how people who are fat (obese is a word used by doctors to insult us larger people)actually live longer than our skinny friends. losing weight is not the problem the problem is who says that everyone must be a certain size stop dieting it makes you fat!!!! stop weighing yourself every week and surprise suprise your extra weight will come off and you will revert to your own normal weight whatever that might be. some people are meant to be fat just celebrate your alive and can still laugh at the world and hopefully at ourselves.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Collington on November 10, 2009 at 12:36am

These articles extrapolate from existing data. Of course, if you're looking at an upward trend then if you extend it far enough (2050 is 40 years time) you get a shocking statistic which makes a good headline.

As for why people don't do something about it - maybe they already know but haven't got the support they need to do so? Would you go out and do 30 mins cardio/hit the gym/go swimming if you're surrounded by people who abuse you for trying to do something about it? If you don't think this attitude is prevalent in the UK, look again and try not to flinch.

Eventually people will realise lecturing and bullying is a poor way to motivate people. Showing them the right way to do things and supporting their efforts is much more effective. What we have here is a failure to communicate.

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