The big cost of obesity in South Africa

[wingnut771]

So no protein ?

Of course, I just left that out as that was in our diet before the change. These days it's just chicken and pork or whatever is on special or about R50/kg.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Been wondering what the ZA numbers are. And this research does not even consider all the costs (loss of productivity, for example).

For sure, if the current global obesity pandemic continues, it will literally bankrupt nations. Sad thing is we know exactly what is driving this and how to fix it. Unfortunately fixing it will require regulatory intervention and no politician is going to go there.

What is driving it

 

[StrontiumDog]

What is driving it

Did the food environment cause the obesity epidemic?

Several putative explanations of the obesity epidemic relate to the changing food environment. Individual dietary macronutrients have each been theorized to be the prime culprit for population obesity, but these explanations are unlikely. Rather, obesity ...

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Abstract​

Several putative explanations of the obesity epidemic relate to the changing food environment. Individual dietary macronutrients have each been theorized to be the prime culprit for population obesity, but these explanations are unlikely. Rather, obesity probably resulted from changes in caloric quantity and quality of the food supply in concert with an industrialized food system that produced and marketed convenient, highly-processed foods from cheap agricultural inputs. Such foods often contain high amounts of salt, sugar, fat, and flavor additives and are engineered to have supernormal appetitive properties driving increased consumption. Ubiquitous access to convenient and inexpensive food also changed normative eating behavior, with more people snacking, eating in restaurants, and spending less time preparing meals at home. While such changes in the food environment provide a likely explanation of the obesity epidemic, definitive scientific demonstration is hindered by the difficulty experimentally isolating and manipulating important variables at the population level.

Conclusion​

It is difficult to imagine a definitive scientific demonstration of the cause of the obesity epidemic since population environmental changes are difficult to isolate and experimentally manipulate. It is easier to rule out simple explanations of obesity such as those based on individual dietary macronutrients. More plausible explanations invoke complex changes in the overall food environment and the associated alterations in normative eating behaviors. Furthermore, a confluence of multiple interrelated environmental changes apart from the food environment, such as decreased occupational physical activity, likely played important moderating roles in the development of the obesity epidemic. Disentangling the relative contributions of these environmental variables is a difficult problem, but it seems clear that the food environment is likely the primary driver of the obesity epidemic.

 

[surface]

Just glanced through and not sure what the problem is although I don't eat meat. This looks clean and safety standards seem being followed.

p.s. You will stop eating curries in most restaurants if you visit their kitchens.

 

[Big Rat]

Here i am, considered to be a fattie at 150kg, dropped a few. but i am healthy, 120/80 blood pressure, bloodsugar on the dial, cholesterol on the dial. Keep frustrating my doctor because all tests show me as healthy as can be, just the weight factor.
Then comes my buddy who cannot be in the same room as i when i sneeze, he will be blown away, he he has cholesterol in the 9's.
Or another skinny chap who is heavy diabetic, injects twice a day.
So how does me matching their combined weight make me the fat unhealthy bastard?

 

[ShaunSA]

p.s. You will stop eating in most restaurants if you visit their kitchens.

ftfy

 

[wingnut771]

Here i am, considered to be a fattie at 150kg, dropped a few. but i am healthy, 120/80 blood pressure, bloodsugar on the dial, cholesterol on the dial. Keep frustrating my doctor because all tests show me as healthy as can be, just the weight factor.
Then comes my buddy who cannot be in the same room as i when i sneeze, he will be blown away, he he has cholesterol in the 9's.
Or another skinny chap who is heavy diabetic, injects twice a day.
So how does me matching their combined weight make me the fat unhealthy bastard?

age and genetics imho.

 

[LinuxMan]

Intermittent Fasting yo

 

[BBSA]

Intermittent Fasting yo

OMAD

 

[Big Rat]

age and genetics imho.

46, not a spring chicken anymore. Mom is diabetic, dad was high cholesterol. I am just lucky, and exercising. Trying to keep up to young, healthy, roided up kids on a rugby field is tough work

 

[wingnut771]

46, not a spring chicken anymore. Mom is diabetic, dad was high cholesterol. I am just lucky, and exercising. Trying to keep up to young, healthy, roided up kids on a rugby field is tough work

I hear you, just turned 45 yesterday. Diet and exercise, diet and exercise is my motto. Still trying to master the exercise part.

 

[Big Rat]

I hear you, just turned 45 yesterday. Diet and exercise, diet and exercise is my motto. Still trying to master the exercise part.

exercise part is cool, the diet, hell no. good food and all the wrong foodstuffs. and boozing it up after practice ain't exactly helping

 

[StrontiumDog]

46, not a spring chicken anymore. Mom is diabetic, dad was high cholesterol. I am just lucky, and exercising. Trying to keep up to young, healthy, roided up kids on a rugby field is tough work

You got the good genes from your grandparents then? Or as you say, lucky! And bad diet to boot, you are really living the life then

For sure having a high BMI doesn't necessarily mean one is unhealthy but all things being equal the person with the higher fat percentage will tend to be worse off.

Same age as you, but half your weight. Both my grandfathers were dead by this age :/
I just narrowly missed having a high cholesterol reading this year. Same for my BP, once I settle down by the third BP reading I am in the optimal range.

I am only gyming once or twice a week, need to make it a consistent 2 to 3 times a week then I will be good.

 

[N@t3]

Start with the fat cats at the government, okes been eating the looted money.

 

[BBSA]

 

[surface]

46, not a spring chicken anymore. Mom is diabetic, dad was high cholesterol. I am just lucky, and exercising. Trying to keep up to young, healthy, roided up kids on a rugby field is tough work

kids are on steroids ?

 

[HunterNW]

kids are on steroids ?

That's news to you ? Pfffft.

 

[wingnut771]

exercise part is cool, the diet, hell no. good food and all the wrong foodstuffs. and boozing it up after practice ain't exactly helping

diet as in eating healthy, not as in dieting. Can't afford to booze it up anymore, or at least I save it for special occasions. I try eat once a day so maybe that is helping?

 

[wingnut771]

kids are on steroids ?

why do you think they have pimples on their back?

 

[LCBXX]

If ZA has an obesity problem, how is it possible that many Citizens go hungry?