HEALTH CDC Warns Of "Alarming" Increase In Child Obesity During Pandemic

[Blacknarwhal]

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CDC Warns Of "Alarming" Increase In Child Obesity During Pandemic

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said children and teenagers in the United States saw their body mass index (BMI) increase at almost double the normal rate during the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that COVID-19 lockdowns and rules may have contributed to the higher-than-usual weight gain.


A 'healthy" 16-year-old...

According to the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, released Thursday, officials noted that individuals aged 2 to 19 saw their BMI “increase approximately doubled during the pandemic compared to a prepandemic period,” adding that “persons with prepandemic overweight or obesity and younger school-aged children experienced the largest increases.”

“Obesity prevention and management efforts during and following the COVID-19 pandemic could include health care provider screening for BMI, food security, and social determinants of health, and increased access to evidence-based pediatric weight management programs and food assistance resources,” the CDC said.

The researchers estimated that 22.4 percent of the aforementioned age group were deemed obese in August 2020, while a year prior, they said that about 19.3 percent were obese. Individuals with obesity before the pandemic saw their BMI rate increase 5.3 times higher compared to before the pandemic.

Teens and children with moderate to severe obesity gained between 1 and 1.2 pounds each month on average, amounting to between 6.1 and 7.6 pounds in six months, said the health agency.

Children between the ages of 6 and 11 saw the greatest increases in their BMI change, reaching 2.5 times as high as compared with before the pandemic.

Since the start of the pandemic early last year, a number of school districts around the United States imposed stay-at-home mandates and employed virtual or distance learning regimes.

The CDC noted that as schools and other venues reopen, it’s important that children and families are given “ample opportunities for proper nutrition and regular physical activity.”

“Accelerated weight gain, especially among children with overweight or obesity, can cause long-lasting metabolic changes that put children at risk for serious and costly co-occurring conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and depression,” the CDC report also said.

The agency’s research was based on a review of the medical records of around 432,000 kids and teens.

The CDC on Wednesday, meanwhile, found that the number of states that have an obesity rate of 35 percent and higher among adults nearly doubled in just two years. Sixteen states were included on the list in 2020, whereas only nine states were included on the same list in 2018.

Delaware, Iowa, Ohio, and Texas joined the CDC’s list in 2020, the agency said, according to The Associated Press.

 

[dvo]

Kids and just about everyone else are fat. I doubt it is healthy, but who took away their activity and scared their parents to death? Goobermint? Lordy...in the 50’s and 60’s most of us looked skinny and undernourished. I didn’t know any peer that was obese, and only a few could have lost some weight. Most all of my male classmates could have gone straight to boot camp from HS. Just an old guy bitching...

 

[Blacknarwhal]

Kids and just about everyone else are fat. I doubt it is healthy, but who took away their activity and scared their parents to death? Goobermint? Lordy...in the 50’s and 60’s most of us looked skinny and undernourished. I didn’t know any peer that was obese, and only a few could have lost some weight. Most all of my male classmates could have gone straight to boot camp from HS. Just an old guy bitching...

Goobermint was a chunk of it. The push toward standardized testing drove schools to cut gym and recess so they could "teach to the test."

The culture kicks in some. There are more attractive video games than ever, as well as more to do online. Meanwhile, going outside is punishable by CPS visits and occasional child abduction.

Some parents are lazy. Some are scared of the various consequences from letting your kid be free-range. Some are both at once to some degree. Some are working so hard trying to keep food on the table that there's little choice; spare a thought for them.

Then throw in SUPER TERRIBLE COVID OH MY GOD DON'T LEAVE YOUR HOUSE EVER YOU MONSTER DO YOU WANT TO KILL GRANDMA and that makes everything that much worse.

Lot of factors going into this.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Kids and just about everyone else are fat. I doubt it is healthy, but who took away their activity and scared their parents to death? Goobermint? Lordy...in the 50’s and 60’s most of us looked skinny and undernourished. I didn’t know any peer that was obese, and only a few could have lost some weight. Most all of my male classmates could have gone straight to boot camp from HS. Just an old guy bitching...

Also into the 70's and early 80's if there was a fat kid in my class more often than not they had some sort of weird health problem, this is especially true if everyone else in their family was skinny.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

Also into the 70's and early 80's if there was a fat kid in my class more often than not they had some sort of weird health problem, this is especially true if everyone else in their family was skinny.

Then there were the ones who grew into it. In fourth grade I was a fireplug of a kid. By my senior year I was six-six and, based on what I heard about a year after graduation, worth the climb.

 

[Knoxville's Joker]

Well, gee, ban them from going to the play ground or going outside. Make the parents scared of the outside. Gee guess what happens? No excersize? Can't go out and enjoy life so stress eating becomes a new normal thing. What happens next?

 

[Blacknarwhal]

Well, gee, ban them from going to the play ground or going outside. Make the parents scared of the outside. Gee guess what happens? No excersize? Can't go out and enjoy life so stress eating becomes a new normal thing. What happens next?

Why, an alarming increase in child obesity, as discovered in this month's Duh Magazeen!

Warning: last sentence may be a little depressing for people who liked Norm MacDonald

 

[Knoxville's Joker]

Why, an alarming increase in child obesity, as discovered in this month's Duh Magazeen!

You made me laugh on that, thank you.

 

[barbarossa58]

Kids and just about everyone else are fat. I doubt it is healthy, but who took away their activity and scared their parents to death? Goobermint? Lordy...in the 50’s and 60’s most of us looked skinny and undernourished. I didn’t know any peer that was obese, and only a few could have lost some weight. Most all of my male classmates could have gone straight to boot camp from HS. Just an old guy bitching...

The obesity began with single parent (mother) households...give the kids McDonald's and they'll shut the hell up...

 

[Blacknarwhal]

You made me laugh on that, thank you.

I finally found the art. I remember seeing that one back in 1994; it was where I got the whole "Duh" idea.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Well, gee, ban them from going to the play ground or going outside. Make the parents scared of the outside. Gee guess what happens? No excersize? Can't go out and enjoy life so stress eating becomes a new normal thing. What happens next?

Throw in a shortage of swimming pools, bicycles, skate boards, and balls, last year the kids were pretty much stuck in the house 24/7. Wonders what their D3 levels are? FWIW low D3 can lead to obesity issues.

 

[Knoxville's Joker]

Throw in a shortage of swimming pools, bicycles, skate boards, and balls, last year the kids were pretty much stuck in the house 24/7. Wonders what their D3 levels are? FWIW low D3 can lead to obesity issues.

Plus Department of Children's Services and schools with their requirements for virtual learning with no PE is a bigger issue too. I doubt the lockdowns will happen again for a few generations at least. Too much documentation occurred this time around to show that lock downs and children are a very, very, bad idea.

 

[Repairman-Jack]

What exactly did "they" think would happen when the tried to put the world on pause?

derrrp "I'm from the government...I'm here to help.."

 

[Knoxville's Joker]

What exactly did "they" think would happen when the tried to put the world on pause?

derrrp "I'm from the government...I'm here to help.."

You sir made me snort.

 

[Hfcomms]

Right up the street from me is a pair of 12 and 14 year old boys from a single father that are both grossly overweight. The 14 year old had to push his mini bike about a mile back home when the engine quit and he was winded and had to stop and take breaks on the way home. The bike didn’t weigh that much.

Lower income man that I guess was collecting pandemic benefits and doesn’t work since they moved in so probably qualified for food stamps and I guess the boys eat breakfast and lunch at school on the taxpayer’s dime. Nothing but carbs in their diet and it shows. Nice kids but both are diabetic and metabolically challenged in the making. At that age I was as thin as a rail as a boy that age should be.

 

[Rex Jackson]

This is a bit disturbing and yet another reason to start buying rope

Obesity - Soon people will learn tat Obesity is inflammation. Inflammation brought on by heavy metal toxicity.
The heavy metals are a) passed down from the mother to the child in the womb, and then continued through vaccination programs. Some city waters are known to have toxic metal levels also contributing, Sugars compound injury.

Being embarrassed, staying indoors eating sweets adds to all this but metals are the base issue.

The only way or "best" way to remove these toxic metals are to a) stop blocking the under arms --forever-- and b) sweat. Sweating w/o moving is best but any sweating is better than no sweating. Sauna, lawn chair, any way you can.

Sweating also works with radiation poisoning, insect and animal venom, and plagues. Yes toxic vaccinations can be dumped by sweating but there is no telling how much would stay behind.

When inducing a sweat one is inducing a fever. Constantly monitor the body's temperature and try to float around 100 to 101deg. We all know too low or too high is NG.

When I see someone "large" these days, I consider them poisoned. Poisoned by the "system"

Roofers, rock stars, and pro athletes are rarely obese, because of the amount of sweating they do.

Metals take 1 to 2 years to drain from the body depending on age. 10 years if one does not sweat.

 

[greysage]

Summer 2020 was the fattest I've ever been in my life and far from a child. In fact most the adults I know have been looking noticeably fatter and older the last year.

 

[summerthyme]

My granddaughters are trim and muscular. Their weight on the American "average" charts are below the 5th percentile (oldest is in the 95th percentile for height, second is more petite). DS asked the doctor whether international figures were different - she now uses the WHO charts for them! Their height percentiles are similar, but their weight is closer to the "average" range...

Summerthyme

 

[The Snack Artist]

Introducing corn syrup into everything played a huge role in the childhood obesity epidemic. It's cheap. Therefore the food corps like it. Unfortunately, it also gets stored as fat as soon as it can. You will never outrun your fork. It can't be done. I belong to Planet Fitness. It's more like Planet Fatness but every person in there is trying to improve themselves.

The chain should as a requirement of their membership make you sit with a nutritionist that knows about ketosis. It's 90% diet and 10% weight training/cardio. The size of these poor folks is distressing to see. You know they would never choose that willingly. I've asked if they have optional nutrition classes for the clientele. No.

 

[Nich1]

Children...and adults, too...have not gotten fat because of cv. It's called overeating! Speaking of DUH. :-) Look around at the grocery stores where 300 pounders are using the motorized carts to fill their baskets with chips, cookies, soft drinks, donuts, etc.! Many people have not taken the time to learn to cook so they pop something into the microwave. Or, they have fast food delivered. Even the commercials now have fat people promoting the products. Sorry, I'm not buying what is being sold that its because of cv.

Until people have a desire to become healthier, it will not change. It takes effort to do some manual work. It takes effort to push away from the table! Very few will be willing to make the effort.