This is a article about obesity in America. In 2003-04 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey indicated that 66% of American adults were either overweight or obese. Now they state that they were using BMI (body mass index) to judge the people in the survey and I am not a huge fan of that method cause I don’t believe it takes into account other important factors, but nonetheless those are still some pretty startling numbers.
They also had some pretty lofty goals for 2010. I wonder how close they came.
Don’t believe me, check it out here.
#1 by Fitness Strength Training at July 11th, 2009
Ran across this post too… you are so right about BMI being the WORST measurement of being fat. Fact being I am really fit, but since it doesnt take into account body fat percentage I am told by the BMI calculation that I am fat when clearly I am not.
It’s just another example of corp america and crappy government agencies doing a crappy job.
But then I still think that the major majority of America is fat, which needs to be fixed.