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Study: Childhood obesity in U.S. accelerated during pandemic:
A new study ties the COVID-19 pandemic to an "alarming" increase in obesity in U.S. children and teenagers.
Childhood obesity has been increasing for decades, but the new work suggests an acceleration last year — especially in those who already were obese when the pandemic started.
The results signal a "profound increase in weight gain for kids" and are "substantial and alarming," said one of the study's authors, Dr. Alyson Goodman of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It's also a sign of a vicious cycle. The pandemic appears to be worsening the nation's longstanding obesity epidemic, and obesity can put people at risk for more severe illness after coronavirus infection.
The CDC on Thursday released the study, which is the largest yet to look at obesity trends during the pandemic.
It found:
- An estimated 22% of children and teens were obese last August, up from 19% a year earlier.
- Before the pandemic, children who were a healthy weight were gaining an average of 3.4 pounds a year. That rose to 5.4 pounds during the pandemic.
- For kids who were moderately obese, expected weight gain rose from 6.5 pounds a year before the pandemic to 12 pounds after the pandemic began.
- For severely obese kids, expected annual weight gain went from 8.8 pounds to 14.6 pounds.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Barenflimski on Saturday September 18 2021, @02:09AM (3 children)
Currently, as in Today, I live in an area where people have mask themselves up outdoors. Their kids are not allowed to play together. They are all convinced that either their children are going to get sick and be the one that ends up in the hospital, OR their kid will be the one that gets sick and then gives it to their vaccinated grandparent who then has a breakthrough case.
Of course kids get fat when they stay inside and aren't allowed to play with friends. When I was a kid, we had the outdoors. Most kids today have Twitch and a TV, and are told by self described "rational people" that everyone else is a danger to them and their families. If its not COVID, its that they are all going to get stolen and sold as sex slaves.
What I see from kids these days is that for them, the safest way to not get yelled at, punished, told what to do, become confused, is to sit inside, on a video game with their "friends" and avoid the insanity that is happening to their parents and all around them.
It is not good for any creature on planet earth to have the stress levels turned up to 11, forever. What isn't captured in these results is the other issues of depression, the life course this will set these kids on, the total lack of calm, and rational people to look up.
All of these "experts" that say that lockdowns and masks are something our kids will just forget and move on from. It is very clear to me from talking to my kids and others kids, that these experts are completely full of it, and have NO idea what they are talking about. Just ask the mom of a 2 year old that can't wait to wear a mask because it makes them feel normal. Or the 6 year old that is shy and is afraid to take off the mask because they feel uncomfortable without it. Or the 13 year old that is now afraid of germs who's hands are so chapped from forced washing that they bleed every day.
And this is all sane? Ugh. Please tell me more about why this is a great idea to constantly do nothing but tell each other why we should be afraid to live.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 18 2021, @07:38PM (2 children)
Mask wearing is Sharia Law by the back door, I've said it before. But did anyone listen?? Nooooooo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 19 2021, @07:05AM (1 child)
The funny thing is that people who say such things are often evangelical authoritarians that push to restrict freedoms for others based on their religious texts. You know, a lot more like Sharia law than medical rules in a pandemic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @02:59PM
Have you noticed that we have bicycle helmet mandates? And that those helmet mandates are not based on LIGHTNING GRAPHICS and WOWSKULLS and RAWRRRR, but on things like Snell standards, testing and construction?
But now we have a mask mandate that apparently seems to be OK with ultra-sheer pantyhose pulled over the head.
TRUST THE SCIENCE!!!
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