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The Seeker said:
I heard this on the radio news during my run this morning.

One Billion people worldwide are obese. :eek:

c/o Healthline.com
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www.ox.ac.uk

US adults in worse health than British counterparts at midlife | University of Oxford

American adults have significantly worse health in midlife compared to their British peers, especially in markers of cardiovascular health, according to a new study involving researchers from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
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Something the US definitely beats the UK on

data.worldobesity.org

Ranking (% obesity by country)

data.worldobesity.org

Interestingly the Pacific islands are the most obese by quite a margin
 
AlRums said:
www.ox.ac.uk

US adults in worse health than British counterparts at midlife | University of Oxford

American adults have significantly worse health in midlife compared to their British peers, especially in markers of cardiovascular health, according to a new study involving researchers from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
www.ox.ac.uk www.ox.ac.uk

Something the US definitely beats the UK on

data.worldobesity.org

Ranking (% obesity by country)

data.worldobesity.org

Interestingly the Pacific islands are the most obese by quite a margin
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I lost 68 pounds by running hills, weight lifting and changing my diet. No more junk food!

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As we (I) have a health thread, I just want share some the spiel-type talks I have with patients at work.

For these purposes there is NO personalising of the spiel, it's all going to be one-size-fits-all, which we all know means that it doesn't fit anyone well. There will be lots of stereotyping.



First up, Manflu.

Manflu is real. Not that men get the common cold more often or more severely than women – quite the opposite if stereotypical parenting patterns hold true. Women are just better at dealing with it than men.
Because.
From the ages of 12-ish to 50-ish, women spend a week out of every month feeling generally shitty. Women have to become good at feeling generally shitty.
Men get a cold for a week or so every 2-3 years, and are unaccustomed to dealing with feeling generally shitty.
FTR, the converse works (but less so) for more traumatic injuries. Boys are more likely to grew up hitting each other with sticks – or fists, more likely to jump off a garage roof or swing set, just to see what happens, fall out of trees etc etc. Men are typically slightly better at dealing with pain from a direct trauma than women – though the difference is relatively minor, and other factors are involved (like motivation to get on with things).
 
Secondly – middle aged spread (especially, for middle-aged men – as aging tends to come as more of a shock to men than to women.
As kids, we all grow up running around all over the place, chasing each other, playing multiple sports and activities, and are generally pretty fit and healthy. Then we leave school and go to Uni, or entry level jobs; and… we're not chasing each other around the playground on break, and we probably only stick with 1-2 sports / physical activities. The variety of challenges we expose our bodies to, is reduced. Then into our later 20s and early 30s, girlfriends/boyfriends become wives/husbands; cats become dogs become human children, and we get a couple of promotions at work. A lot more demands on our times, but no more time in the day, so something gives way – usually exercise. Additionally, with a little more age, we recover from injuries (including DOMS) less well. We go from training twice a week and playing every weekend, to playing only, and not every weekend. But we keep eating as if we're burning those 5000 calories a week that we used to. Our body composition changes and we develop middle-aged spread. Which exacerbates an element above about injury recovery, and likelihood. Injuries here tend to be forgetting that our body isn't 20 and invulnerable anymore (you can't lift that, but you haven't realised yet - or at least, you can't lift it with lazy technique)

NB: Women also follow this exact same pattern, BUT… Women tend to be more bodily aware than men, and women are a touch more involved in the process of growing a foetus (and stereotypically, with growing the subsequent child) than men. Even if women weren't more bodily aware than men, their body goes through a dramatic, and undeniable change, with a decent amount of support based around shedding that weight afterwards, and the problems their body will present them with.
 
Finally – general aging, and genetics.
As far as your genes are concerned, you're running a 21st​ century, 24/7, ultraconnected lifestyle on hunter-gatherer hardware.
As far as your genes are concerned, it wants you to be healthy for long enough to have kids, and see them to the point of being independent hunter-gatherers themselves. They'd also like it if enough of the tribe last into old-age and can remember what worked last time there was a once-in 60 year drought (or whatever else).
But let's take the first bit – your genes wants your kids to reach independence – you need to live long enough for your kid to reach 15-ish. You genes want you to reach 30-35ish years old in peak position. And they'd like it if the deterioration after that was relatively gentle.
3 decades is essentially your warranty (a bit like the 3 warranty on your car). If you die before that age, it's either a manufacturing error (still-birth / infant mortality), something that's done to you (trauma, tropical disease) or a tragedy, and you'd be well within your rights to be complaining to your manufacturer (whichever god(s) you believe in).
From the end of your warranty to the same again, you expect the odd niggle, but nothing too bad – maybe the clock doesn't work, or there's a squeak from the rear right quarter – annoying but not dramatic (but often concerning when it first happens). Anything more important that goes wrong should be a relatively easy repair job.
When you get to 3 times the warranty, you're expecting that something more important is likely to go wrong – at some point in this time-frame then it's likely you'll suffer something that goes beyond economic repair, or towards the cutting edge of medical repair. A drive belt or a new knee is relatively easy; but an engine rebuild, or a new heart is less so.
If anyone gets to 4 times their warranty without needing something major, it's basically a miracle.
 
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Very interesting read thanks.

About point 2, would you agree that sports very much take a backseat for women generally and that they become much more body shape and weight conscious at a much earlier age than men?
 
AlRums said:
Very interesting read thanks.

About point 2, would you agree that sports very much take a backseat for women generally and that they become much more body shape and weight conscious at a much earlier age than men?
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I think it depends what you means by "sports", whilst acknowledging that women are more likely to get pregnant than men - with all the relevant considerations around that.

As a stereotype, adult men are more likely to play a team sport than adult women.
Adult women are more likely to take an exercise class than adult men.
Solitary "sport" is likely to be much more even (golf aside)

Reasons for that are likely to be social/cultural - availability, acceptability amongst peers, body shape and weight consciousness, disruption of pregnancy, the way the genders make friends, and surely plenty of other factors.


ETA: does that actually answer your question? Or did I head off on a tangent?
 
Which Tyler said:
I think it depends what you means by "sports", whilst acknowledging that women are more likely to get pregnant than men - with all the relevant considerations around that.

As a stereotype, adult men are more likely to play a team sport than adult women.
Adult women are more likely to take an exercise class than adult men.
Solitary "sport" is likely to be much more even (golf aside)

Reasons for that are likely to be social/cultural - availability, acceptability amongst peers, body shape and weight consciousness, disruption of pregnancy, the way the genders make friends, and surely plenty of other factors.


ETA: does that actually answer your question? Or did I head off on a tangent?
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No, you answered it perfectly, thanks, I did mean team sports as such, hockey, football, rugby etc.

The younger girls of today, that I know, seem to only go the gym to "shape" their arses going by their Instagram. A few jog but not many.
 

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