Adult obesity rates increased in 16 states in the past year and did not decline in any state, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011, a report from the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
TOP 12 OBESE STATES – ALL WITH OVER 30% OBESITY RATES
1. Mississippi 34.4%
2. Alabama 32.3%
3. West Virginia 32.2%
4. Tennessee 31.9%
5. Loiusiana 31.6%
6. Kentucky 31.5%
7. Oklahoma 31.4%
8. South Carolina 30.9%
9. Arkansas 30.6%
10. Michigan 30.5%
11. Missouri 30.3%
12. Texas 30.1%
This is a huge increase in obesity over the last decade and why at Diet-Patch we’ve introduced the Super Diet-Patch Detox System to help fight fat America. It’s our way of helping you from becoming a statistic and helping reduce America’s $2 trillion dollar health care costs, more than any other country.
Seriously, with the increasing cost to Employers for Health Insurance, do you think that they are going to start profiling applicants on the QT? We know they probably do already. With unemployment at a peak – if you’re looking for employment and the job comes with benefits, you may well be overlooked if you’re obese. Harsh facts, but just like people complain of ageism, sexual discrimination, social profile monitoring (ie. facebook) and such, profiling by HR departments is becoming extremely invasive and if they can keep their health costs and sick leave costs down, then we think employers will hire fitter, leaner staff.
IS THE INTERNET RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR BAD HEALTH?
With the explosion of the world wide web, social media and video streaming, people are spending most of their waking day in front of the computer.
The usual routine of waking up, checking email and clearing out your pda’s of mail and news, then going to your facebook and twitter pages to reply to comments, emails and mentions and then the rest of the day you’re at the pc if you’ve got a desk job.
After hrs that doesn’t stop as you tweet, text and message people with your pda on the way home and then back at the house you’ll download your next movie or be playing angrybirds to chill out while still multi-tasking on facebook as you eat that Big Mac n Milkshake you bought on the way home as you have no time to cook healthy food!
The best exercise you’re getting is a walk from the car park to the office and when you hit the sheets, you’re ready to do it all over again the next day.
It’s time to change America, let the PC and PDA rest for a couple of hrs and get in some walks, take the kids to the park and throw ball or other exercise to help keep you healthy. America has a love of dining out and fast food, morning coffees at Starbucks are sugar laden lattes and cupcakes to go. Change the routine.
Take that extra half hr to go to the store and buy fresh food, for example make a nice chicken salad for your evening meal (but don’t then smother it with high calorie dressings) and you’ll feel so much healthier than that calorie busting Big Mac Meal!
You are what you’ve eaten, so detox and wear a fresh diet-patch each day with our Diet-Patch Detox System and that will help clean out all that “junk” in your body and curb those food cravings. If you maintain this plan of sensible eating and cutting back on the PC dependency to allow you time to focus on a healthier you, in a few weeks, you’ll have so much more energy and a far slimmer waistline.
To your continued weight loss success!
