Embracing My Health » buck the trend http://embracingmyhealth.com Embrace Love, Life, and Health! Sun, 06 Feb 2011 07:06:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Bucking the trend http://embracingmyhealth.com/index.php/2008/07/bucking-the-trend/ http://embracingmyhealth.com/index.php/2008/07/bucking-the-trend/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:28:51 +0000 Janece http://embracingmyhealth.com/?p=21

I see the headline on the Yahoo homepage: “If current trends continue, nearly all Americans could be overweight by 2030“. I click over to an ABC News video. And what is the commercial that I’m given to atch before the news article? Oreos. A back and forth “bonding moment” between a son and father (albeit over webcam) eating Oreos together…

Anyway. The video news blurb audio wouldn’t play for me after the advertisement for whatever reason. The only thing I could see was video image after image of overweight people. I gave up and searched online for the study and found it: (”Americans Could Be Overweight Or Obese By 2030.” ScienceDaily 29 July 2008.).

The net conclusion of the study: as much as 86% of American adults will be overweight or obese by 2030.  96% of non-Hispanic black women and 91% of Mexican American men…  That’s no small number.

The only thing that will begin to alter these numbers are you and me.

Want to buck the trend with me?

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