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chemgear · 06-29-2012, 11:33 PM

While I can understand that BMI isn't a perfect measurement, I am a little puzzled why it seems like the massive growth in overweight/obesity is often waved away in the name of making feel better about themselves. Don't get me wrong, I'm not interesting in bullying to get people to change. But it seems like people (in general) like to ignore the problem or blame it on genetics or how talking about how bad the issue is an assault on people's feelings.

Having just been in on a trip to Asia and back home, it is STAGGERING how large Canadians/North Americans are.

I'm a numbers guy so for the sake of comparison:

- more than 2/3 of all people are overweight or outright obese, nearly 70%
- roughly 1-2% of people suffered bulimia
- roughly 1-4% of people suffered anorexia

http://www.anad.org/get-information/...rs-statistics/
http://www.disordered-eating.co.uk/e...istics-us.html

Don't get me wrong, bulimia and anorexia are not good things (terrible actually) but they are not even in the same ballpark as a societal problem and cost.

06-29-2012, 11:33 PM	#55
chemgear Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2010 Exp:	While I can understand that BMI isn't a perfect measurement, I am a little puzzled why it seems like the massive growth in overweight/obesity is often waved away in the name of making feel better about themselves. Don't get me wrong, I'm not interesting in bullying to get people to change. But it seems like people (in general) like to ignore the problem or blame it on genetics or how talking about how bad the issue is an assault on people's feelings. Having just been in on a trip to Asia and back home, it is STAGGERING how large Canadians/North Americans are. I'm a numbers guy so for the sake of comparison: - more than 2/3 of all people are overweight or outright obese, nearly 70% - roughly 1-2% of people suffered bulimia - roughly 1-4% of people suffered anorexia http://www.anad.org/get-information/...rs-statistics/ http://www.disordered-eating.co.uk/e...istics-us.html Don't get me wrong, bulimia and anorexia are not good things (terrible actually) but they are not even in the same ballpark as a societal problem and cost.