audreyh1
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I was watching this video by a Swedish GP doctor who uses LCHF diet with his overweight patients, and I'd never seen the data showing how incredibly fast obesity increased in the US from 1985-2010. I mean, I knew Americans were "fat", but this is truly an epidemic, and occurred at tremendous speed.
Data from the CDC - BRFSS, around the time that "low fat" diet advice was seriously pushed (started 1984).
Talk is from 2011. It's long, so I've selected a couple areas of interest:
Go to around 6:00 into the video, and you'll see the graphics that show the incredible increase in US obesity, increasing tremendously every 2 years.
Another interesting section starts at 27:47 where he compares the self-tested blood sugar response to a LCHF meal he calls a "dietician's nightmare", to the lunch provided at the International Congress of Obesity 2010, which says was the worst lunch he ate in years.
Data from the CDC - BRFSS, around the time that "low fat" diet advice was seriously pushed (started 1984).
- 1985 - many states didn't collect data as obesity wasn't a serious health concern, and <10 states has obesity rates >10%.
- 1987 - More states have data. More have obesity rates >10%
- 1991 - Most states have data. Over half have obesity rates >10%, five states have obesity rates >15%
- 1995 - Half the states have obesity rates >15%! All remaining states have obesity rates>10%. This is just in 10 years!
- 2001 - Half the states have obesity rates >20%, and one state has obesity rate >25%
- 2005 - Three states have obesity rates >30%, 14 states have obesity rates >25%, and most of the rest have obesity rates >20%!
- 2010 - Now 12 states have obesity rates >30%. Another 24 states have obesity rates >25%, and the remaining 14 all have obesity rates >20%!
Talk is from 2011. It's long, so I've selected a couple areas of interest:
Go to around 6:00 into the video, and you'll see the graphics that show the incredible increase in US obesity, increasing tremendously every 2 years.
Another interesting section starts at 27:47 where he compares the self-tested blood sugar response to a LCHF meal he calls a "dietician's nightmare", to the lunch provided at the International Congress of Obesity 2010, which says was the worst lunch he ate in years.
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