Occupations with the most Obese people....Interesting..top 10

[bcp]

The article linked in post 1 is about a study done in the state of Washington, not the US.

The original source has much more information, such as percent by education, age, race, habits, least obese, etc. The data tables are at the far bottom of the report.

Preventing Chronic Disease | Obesity Prevalence by Occupation in Washington State, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System - CDC

Bruce

 

[3930dave]

Food quality/culture/physical habits all come into play.

My first visit to Europe was to Sweden. I kept looking around for the signs for the stadium, as I assumed there was a major sports event on..... No, it just happens that most (as in virtually all) of the population looks like they'd place well in a triathalon.

We (Can/USA) tend to eat a lot of highly processed food; overall, not just in fast-food joints. A lot of it is mostly calories, w/o much nutrition.

Even things like commercial vegetables aren't what they used to be..... fast growth today, along with depleted soils have dropped their nutritional value, compared to what our grandparents had.

It occured to me a long time ago, but I haven't tried chasing the research..... perhaps our bodies are on autopilot (re. grazing), trying to seek nutrition....

Many of the healthy Euro areas traditionally did not favour highly processed "modern" food. Some of that has been changing, but still the focus seems more on quality than quantity.

Many Euro areas seem to take food pretty seriously, to the point of major public demonstrations.

Here, we seem a little too oblivious to the agri-chemical experimentation that goes on in the food stream, IMO.

Rgds, D.

 

[300UGUY]

Food quality/culture/physical habits all come into play.

My first visit to Europe was to Sweden. I kept looking around for the signs for the stadium, as I assumed there was a major sports event on..... No, it just happens that most (as in virtually all) of the population looks like they'd place well in a triathalon.

We (Can/USA) tend to eat a lot of highly processed food; overall, not just in fast-food joints. A lot of it is mostly calories, w/o much nutrition.

Even things like commercial vegetables aren't what they used to be..... fast growth today, along with depleted soils have dropped their nutritional value, compared to what our grandparents had.

It occured to me a long time ago, but I haven't tried chasing the research..... perhaps our bodies are on autopilot (re. grazing), trying to seek nutrition....

Many of the healthy Euro areas traditionally did not favour highly processed "modern" food. Some of that has been changing, but still the focus seems more on quality than quantity.

Many Euro areas seem to take food pretty seriously, to the point of major public demonstrations.

Here, we seem a little too oblivious to the agri-chemical experimentation that goes on in the food stream, IMO.

Rgds, D.

I've noticed that on ag related forums, any criticism of the food chain in this country gets very strong denials from ag types. They are very sensitive to anything, generally labeling folks tree huggers. If they are being nice....

 

[3930dave]

If we were going have an extended discussion about something like M*****to, we'd have to head over to the F&P forum. Best summed up by a recent comment on radio, about the head of Legal at the FDA moving back and forth to run M*****to.

I find on here generally that most people consider the likes of M*****to to be the Evil Empire, whether or not they self-identify as a "hugger".

Generally the problems relate to the Corporatization of the Ag industry. By that I mean the international conglomerates, not the legal status of a family farm.

One recent example of the frustration at the farm field level was with beef cattle. I think it started in Alberta. Farmers came together to directly market the beef that they controlled, birth through processing. Main-stream farmers, that had enough of what the likes of XL Foods did to the industry.

Most individual farmers I've know personally all wanted to produce quality products, that they'd be happy to serve their family. None are thrilled by metaphorically p*ssing in their own wells product wise, just so a global corporation can make a few extra billions every year.

I see this way more as a 1% (actually more like the 0.1%) vs. the rest of us issue, than conventional farmers vs. tree-huggers.

I get seriously bent out of shape when i see the .1% corporate types here (and their fully paid for CorporateGovernment "safety" troops), trying to make quiet moves against things like Farmer's Markets, and Fall Fairs. Aside from being good in the field, and with a balance sheet, farmers now have to get really good at marketing directly to where the people are - in the cities.

It comes down to people's health, vs. the mega-profits of the half a dozen or so corporations that run the global food game.

Direct action works. Plenty of people on here grow their own food, even if they don't sell any of it.

Rgds, D.

 

[newbury]

When I was traveling in Europe, mostly Germany, (from the '90's to about 2010) about 2 months a year I noticed that they relied more on daily shopping and fresh food. And they knew how to cook without salt.

Here almost every meal contains more than a days requirement of salt. Read the labels, especially on soups.

Salt causes, among other things, water retention.

I can eat one Chinese takeout dish and put on 5 lbs due to the salt. Then lose it the day after.

 

[bandaidmd]

Overweight occupations: Truckers top list of obese workers, study says - NY Daily News

I would have thought 1 and 2 were the same.

 

[jerrybob]

One of the biggest causes of obesity in our country is the "fork".

 

[smstonypoint]

Some national and international data on obesity:

From America痴 Obesity Problem Today and Tomorrow Advanced Physical Medicine



From The 9 Most Obese Countries in the World (ARNA, OREX, VVUS)



Steve

 

[Gunny]

There's a lot of "food" for thought in those charts. Since some have claimed that southern foods and eating habits have a large part in the weight problem, wonder why TN, GA and FL aren't quite as heavy? I could maybe understand FL simply because so many northerners retire down there, but TN? Maybe IL and MI would be because of all the southerners that flocked up there to work in the automotive industry?

Having a military background, I do know that weight is getting to be a problem. Years and years ago, the military was turning down a lot of potential enlistments because they didn't weight enough (my dad bulked up on bananas just to meet the minimum requirement), now a large percentage of possible enlistees are turned down because they weight too much.

 

[smstonypoint]

When I was traveling in Europe, mostly Germany, (from the '90's to about 2010) about 2 months a year I noticed that they relied more on daily shopping and fresh food.

What if they put ingredient labels on fresh food? Here's what an egg's label would look like.



From Ingredients of an All-Natural Egg | James' reading list

And a banana's label.



From http://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/ingredients-of-an-all-natural-banana/

Steve