All U.S. adults overweight within 40 years?

Don't worry, when the depression hits it'll kill off most of'm. Then more plump women for me!

great photo. anybody care to weigh in?

If I weigh in, the boat will capsize.

- Very few individuals have Will Power...
- It takes effort to get your ass off the couch and make something happen
- and just because you're hungry doesn't mean you have to eat

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... nothing worth having is easy (like a long, healthy life)

Well I will be adult at that time and I am actually trying to either gain more weight or keep it to make myself more healthy.
I am 6 foot 5 and I weigh less than 160 pounds!(and I am a male)

corrcetion: I will be an adult

correction

This article is predicated on an assumption:

"..if the trends of the last 30 years hold up..."

Experience tells us that
a) American trends rarely last a generation.
b) Smeone comes up with a counter-trend; and it sweeps the nation.

Look for computerized, electrode enabled weight loss and muscle building technologies; à la "The Terminal Man."

Look, also for new 'gene enhancing' practices such as the "SUPERMOUSE" variety.

Once again I'm a trend leader. I've always prided myself on being ahead of the curve.

i think if the US stop making healthy food less expensive and make junk food a little more expensive then people in the US will lose weight.

Alucard wrote:

If the US government would stop giving welfare bums a pay raise for every litter they produce, maybe some people would start to lose weight.

What does that have to do with weight loss?

I am past 70, and have had no problem keeping to my ideal weight for at least 10 years, whereas during my working life doing so was far from easy. (I was sometimes 10 or 15 pounds above it.) I think it was because I could not make plenty of time for exercise and because the stress in my working environment was such that from time to time I used food as a buffer against stress, which is not a good idea.

stop eating fast food fat asses...all you see, today in America, are fat people walking around w/ fast food. shoving it into there pie holes. quit eating so much and put your self on a tred mill for pete's sake. we are the world's #1 most obese country. wow. thats sad.

Negro adults will all be skinny due to full blown AIDS in 40 years.

Mr_Bill wrote:

This article is predicated on an assumption:
"..if the trends of the last 30 years hold up..."
Experience tells us that
a) American trends rarely last a generation.
b) Smeone comes up with a counter-trend; and it sweeps the nation.
Look for computerized, electrode enabled weight loss and muscle building technologies; à la "The Terminal Man."
Look, also for new 'gene enhancing' practices such as the "SUPERMOUSE" variety.

the article is just one more in a seemingly endless series of misleading, biased, totally ridiculous, or, blatantly untrue articles posted by iria.
:) is there no stopping this woman!!??

I'm worried about my OWN body NOW rather than the rest of the country's physique 40 years from now. Burn more calories than you take in. There's no secret magic to it although I wish like hell there was!

Well, I wouldn't doubt it. Todays children are raised from the cradle to sit on their asses in front of the computers, with IPODS in their ears and spend hours in front of the idiot box,(in most cases sitting right next to their parents). Gone are the days when we send out kids outside to play and excercise. I had to laugh the other day listening to two mothers in Central Park scheduling a "play date" because "junior's schedule is just to busy." When I was coming up, you took your butt outside and played with your friends. You walked around the corner to see ifyour friend was home. What is this "schedule a play date" nonsense?

We could all become "Vegies" like Charles Manson, Jim Jones, and Adolph Hitler! A hundred years from now I don't care what I weighed! Pass the spotted owl, please.

How many kids spend an hour every day OUTSIDE engaging in physical activity.
I mowed lawns, shoveled snow and biked two miles to the baseball field every day in the summer when it didn't rain.

Kids today sit around on their lazy azz and fondle electronic gadgets/toys when they aren't at MY SPACE or searching for porn.

BurgerBill wrote:

How many kids spend an hour every day OUTSIDE engaging in physical activity.
I mowed lawns, shoveled snow and biked two miles to the baseball field every day in the summer when it didn't rain.
Kids today sit around on their lazy azz and fondle electronic gadgets/toys when they aren't at MY SPACE or searching for porn.

yes. exactly. my son does nothing else but molest his xbox and look at the FACE BOOK for porn all day.