Out of the house this beautiful morning just after nine, not quite 70 degrees and mostly sunny and not humid.
Stopped at a CVS for shaving supplies and at B&N for a giant iced coffee, then off to the Riverfront Park for a walk and some time refreshing myself on my Audubon bird book and equally large and beautiful tree book.
The two trees in the subject line are the types planted along the area where I always try to park, overlooking the boat launch and the Monongahela, just downstream from the Birmingham Bridge.
Canadian Geese are all over the place and bold as you please, very slow to get out of the way of a honking car.
Robins, starlings, and various sparrows were abundant.
Yesterday there was a female turkey (not a turkey vulture – the heads and necks are markedly different) and the day before there were numerous crows or ravens, not sure which.
I’ve never seen a deer in this park – probably too hard to get to with rail lines and highways and housing and the river cutting off the park in all directions – but there was a big doe this morning right across the street from the house on Cedar, munching on a neighbor’s shrub.
Home for brunch just after noon, I made some odd hash using parboiled potatoes fried in butter, a half strip of cooked bacon broken up to bits and maybe an eighth of a cup of chopped sweet onions with a couple leftover pieces of green pepper, nuked in a bit of butter and mixed with grated parmesan into an egg scrambled with water.
Seasonings for the potato butter and onion butter were salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and paprika.
Fry the potatoes in their butter and then turn off the heat and add everything else. The heat in the pan cooks the egg as you mix everything.
I feared it might be awful but it was great.
Add half a glass of skim milk on the side to take your vitamins with and it’s maybe 350 or so calories.
Supper tonight will be leftover curry chicken and chicken wings.
They’re Chinese delivery and the menu is silent on the calorie load.
A friend with whom I keep in daily touch is fine today.
She was a friend of my late wife's pretty much all her life, and lives alone as I have done since my wife passed, a week after Valentine's Day this year, and neither of us has anyone better suited left locally to notice if we fall over and can't get up, or drop dead.
When I called her just before noon from the park she had already taken a friend for a bone marrow test at an outpatient center that was called off because of anesthesia allergy issues.
The friend is as tall as Norma, maybe 5' 9" or 5' 10", she said, and weighs 90 pounds.
It’s not anorexia, it’s that eating is immediately followed by crippling, screaming stomach pain.
The friend is in her early sixties and the test was rescheduled for a hospital where they can use different anesthesia.
I don’t recall her name as Norma rarely mentions her and we've never met during all the years my wife was alive or since.
The poor woman has been in this sort of bad way, apparently, for decades.
Compared with that – or indeed with most things – being the fatso that I have again become, hovering around a blubbery 240 – is not so bad.
But not really good, either.
At the park, pretty much nobody wore a mask at all, and of those who did just under half were using them as chin or neck ornaments.
Bicyclists, walkers, runners, it didn't matter.
Even along Carson Street on the way home pretty much no one was wearing a mask.
Masks are mandatory wherever outdoors distancing can't be maintained but there has been and is absolutely no enforcement effort, mostly because the classe politique is bitterly divided on the matter.
We Americans would be half of us killed pretty soon by a virus as contagious as Covid-19 but as deadly as Ebola.
Our economy and social order would be utterly destroyed.
Maybe I'll watch Contagion, today or tonight.
Coronavirus: Los Angeles to shut off water and power to party houses
Showing posts with label obesity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obesity. Show all posts
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Oh, swell
I've been fattening up since the start of the virus chaos, about the time my wife passed after five months of struggle in a variety of medical institutions.
Grief plus way too much bored time in to close proximity to a kitchen.
Just in time for this bad news about the virus for the fat.
US obesity epidemic could undermine effectiveness of a Covid-19 vaccine
Grief plus way too much bored time in to close proximity to a kitchen.
Just in time for this bad news about the virus for the fat.
US obesity epidemic could undermine effectiveness of a Covid-19 vaccine
Scientists know that vaccines engineered to protect the public from influenza, hepatitis B, tetanus and rabies can be less effective in obese adults than in the general population, leaving them more vulnerable to infection and illness.
There is little reason to believe, obesity researchers say, that Covid-19 vaccines will be any different.
. . . .
As intensive care units in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere filled with patients, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that obese people with a body mass index of 40 or more — known as morbid obesity or about 100 pounds overweight — were among the groups at highest risk of becoming severely ill with Covid-19. About 9% of American adults are in that category.
As weeks passed and a clearer picture of who was being hospitalized came into focus, federal health officials expanded their warning to include people with a body mass index of 30 or more.
That vastly expanded the ranks of those considered vulnerable to the most severe cases of infection, to 42.4% of American adults.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
OK, that won't do
What with my wife's health problems and the busyness due to her being incapacitated for the last 10 1/2 months, I have lost my grip and gained 10 pounds, outright.
This is not acceptable.
This is the road to obesity.
This is not acceptable.
This is the road to obesity.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Well, this is really stupid. And also mendacious.
Well, who says liberals cannot be lying idiots?
Um, probably no one, come to that.
Samantha Bee Calls Out Medical Fat-Shaming
In case you missed this week's "Full Frontal," Sam Bee took on the medical profession regarding their hatred and shaming of fat people.
Medical bigotry leads to doctor's failure to diagnose other issues unrelated to weight. And it doesn't help anybody.
Um, probably no one, come to that.
Samantha Bee Calls Out Medical Fat-Shaming
In case you missed this week's "Full Frontal," Sam Bee took on the medical profession regarding their hatred and shaming of fat people.
Medical bigotry leads to doctor's failure to diagnose other issues unrelated to weight. And it doesn't help anybody.
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Chris Christie and Stacey Abrams are in the same boat
I think you know what boat that is.
They both need to lose a hundred pounds, at least.
I didn't realize how big CC is until I saw him on You Tube on a Trevor Noah clip, being interviewed about working for Trump.
They were sitting on opposite sides of something like a card table on chairs as revealing as simple folding chairs, and the camera was far enough back to show them both, facing each other and talking.
And that was a very revealing view of CC.
They both need to lose a hundred pounds, at least.
I didn't realize how big CC is until I saw him on You Tube on a Trevor Noah clip, being interviewed about working for Trump.
They were sitting on opposite sides of something like a card table on chairs as revealing as simple folding chairs, and the camera was far enough back to show them both, facing each other and talking.
And that was a very revealing view of CC.
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
A commitment to eating a low calorie diet pushes you close to this, anyway
Poultry, fish, and pig-meat have far fewer calories than beef in any form.
Salad veggies are way low in calories and low, even zero, calorie dressings are on the market.
Other veggies have considerably fewer calories than red meat, too.
Likewise fruits.
However, nuts and whole grain products can have a lot of calories, and in our house we deliberately pick low calorie cereal products, too.
But I do value olive oil and avoid butter, or even higher calorie margarines.
Mediterranean diet named the best for 2019
Salad veggies are way low in calories and low, even zero, calorie dressings are on the market.
Other veggies have considerably fewer calories than red meat, too.
Likewise fruits.
However, nuts and whole grain products can have a lot of calories, and in our house we deliberately pick low calorie cereal products, too.
But I do value olive oil and avoid butter, or even higher calorie margarines.
Mediterranean diet named the best for 2019
Thursday, December 20, 2018
An epidemic of fat
Hokey smokes.
And crikey.
U.S. adults aren't getting taller, but they're still putting on pounds
The average U.S. adult is overweight and just a few pounds from obese, thanks to average weight increases in all groups — but particularly whites and Hispanics.
Overall, the average height for men actually fell very slightly over the past decade. There was no change for women.
Average weight, waist size, and BMI (a measure of obesity) has increased over the past 18 years, a new report says, further supporting the notion that the U.S. has an obesity crisis.
One factor may be the shift in the country's population.
There's a growing number of Mexican-Americans, and that group tends to be a little shorter, said one of the report's authors, Cynthia Ogden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
. . . .
CDC records date back to the early 1960s, when the average man was a little over 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighed 166 pounds.
Now, men are almost 1 inch taller and more than 30 pounds heavier.
But today's average height of 5 feet, 9 inches is about a tenth of an inch shorter than about a decade ago.
The average woman in the early 1960s was 5 feet, 3 inches and 140 pounds.
Now, women are a half-inch taller and about 30 pounds heavier, on average.
The average height is about the same as it was a decade earlier: 5 feet, 4 inches.
I'm a 6 foot tall white guy and I weigh 195, making me a tad overweight per the CDC.
The average American male is three inches shorter than I and weighs 198.
My wife is five feet tall and weighs 128.
Jeez.
. . . .
The average height of black men and white men has been holding about steady, at a little under 5 feet 10.
Mexican-American and Asian-American men are roughly 3 inches shorter than whites and blacks, on average.
There was a similar height gap in women.
In 2016, about 18 percent of the nation's population was Hispanic, up from about 13 percent in 2000, according to U.S. Census figures.
Mexican-Americans account for nearly two-thirds of the Hispanic population.
And crikey.
U.S. adults aren't getting taller, but they're still putting on pounds
The average U.S. adult is overweight and just a few pounds from obese, thanks to average weight increases in all groups — but particularly whites and Hispanics.
Overall, the average height for men actually fell very slightly over the past decade. There was no change for women.
Average weight, waist size, and BMI (a measure of obesity) has increased over the past 18 years, a new report says, further supporting the notion that the U.S. has an obesity crisis.
One factor may be the shift in the country's population.
There's a growing number of Mexican-Americans, and that group tends to be a little shorter, said one of the report's authors, Cynthia Ogden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
. . . .
CDC records date back to the early 1960s, when the average man was a little over 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighed 166 pounds.
Now, men are almost 1 inch taller and more than 30 pounds heavier.
But today's average height of 5 feet, 9 inches is about a tenth of an inch shorter than about a decade ago.
The average woman in the early 1960s was 5 feet, 3 inches and 140 pounds.
Now, women are a half-inch taller and about 30 pounds heavier, on average.
The average height is about the same as it was a decade earlier: 5 feet, 4 inches.
I'm a 6 foot tall white guy and I weigh 195, making me a tad overweight per the CDC.
The average American male is three inches shorter than I and weighs 198.
My wife is five feet tall and weighs 128.
Jeez.
. . . .
The average height of black men and white men has been holding about steady, at a little under 5 feet 10.
Mexican-American and Asian-American men are roughly 3 inches shorter than whites and blacks, on average.
There was a similar height gap in women.
In 2016, about 18 percent of the nation's population was Hispanic, up from about 13 percent in 2000, according to U.S. Census figures.
Mexican-Americans account for nearly two-thirds of the Hispanic population.
Friday, March 23, 2018
You can lead a horse to water . . .
American Adults Just Keep Getting Fatter
American adults continue to put on the pounds.
New data shows that nearly 40 percent of them were obese in 2015 and 2016, a sharp increase from a decade earlier, federal health officials reported Friday.
The prevalence of severe obesity in American adults is also rising, heightening their risks of developing heart disease, diabetes and various cancers.
According to the latest data, published Friday in JAMA, 7.7 percent of American adults were severely obese in the same period.
The data — gathered in a large-scale federal survey that is considered the gold standard for health data — measured trends in obesity from 2015 and 2016 back to 2007 and 2008, when 5.7 percent of American adults were severely obese and 33.7 percent were obese.
The survey counted people with a body mass index of 30 or more as obese, and those with a B.M.I. of 40 or more as severely obese.
Public health experts said that they were alarmed by the continuing rise in obesity among adults and by the fact that efforts to educate people about the health risks of a poor diet do not seem to be working.
. . . .
In recent NAFTA negotiations, the Trump administration has proposed rules favored by major food companies that would limit the ability of the United States, Mexico and Canada to require prominent labels on packaged foods warning about the health risks of foods high in sugar and fat.
While the latest survey data doesn’t explain why Americans continue to get heavier, nutritionists and other experts cite lifestyle, genetics, and, most importantly, a poor diet as factors.
Fast food sales in the United States rose 22.7 percent from 2012 to 2017, according to Euromonitor, while packaged food sales rose 8.8 percent.
On 4/25/2015 I weighed in, stark naked first thing in the morning, at 297 pounds with a BMI of 40.3, putting me at the 98th percentile among men of the same age and height.
That was a lifetime max I reached after retiring on 3/1 of the same year.
Today I weigh 196 with a BMI of 26.6, putting me at the 49th percentile.
My doctor tells me firmly to not lose more.
Calorie control relying on nutrition information, a pyrex graduated cup measure, and a food scale from Bed, Bath, and Beyond was how I did it, and still do it.
Oh, and a little Cassio calculator my wife bought me to check my arithmetic.
And a cheat sheet on which I have scribbled the calories per ounce or gram of many of our favorite foods.
And one day a week, every week, on which we don't count the calories and eat meals we know are above our regular daily limits.
Things like surf and turf, ribs, Thanksgiving dinner, or pot roast.
American adults continue to put on the pounds.
New data shows that nearly 40 percent of them were obese in 2015 and 2016, a sharp increase from a decade earlier, federal health officials reported Friday.
The prevalence of severe obesity in American adults is also rising, heightening their risks of developing heart disease, diabetes and various cancers.
According to the latest data, published Friday in JAMA, 7.7 percent of American adults were severely obese in the same period.
The data — gathered in a large-scale federal survey that is considered the gold standard for health data — measured trends in obesity from 2015 and 2016 back to 2007 and 2008, when 5.7 percent of American adults were severely obese and 33.7 percent were obese.
The survey counted people with a body mass index of 30 or more as obese, and those with a B.M.I. of 40 or more as severely obese.
Public health experts said that they were alarmed by the continuing rise in obesity among adults and by the fact that efforts to educate people about the health risks of a poor diet do not seem to be working.
. . . .
In recent NAFTA negotiations, the Trump administration has proposed rules favored by major food companies that would limit the ability of the United States, Mexico and Canada to require prominent labels on packaged foods warning about the health risks of foods high in sugar and fat.
While the latest survey data doesn’t explain why Americans continue to get heavier, nutritionists and other experts cite lifestyle, genetics, and, most importantly, a poor diet as factors.
Fast food sales in the United States rose 22.7 percent from 2012 to 2017, according to Euromonitor, while packaged food sales rose 8.8 percent.
On 4/25/2015 I weighed in, stark naked first thing in the morning, at 297 pounds with a BMI of 40.3, putting me at the 98th percentile among men of the same age and height.
That was a lifetime max I reached after retiring on 3/1 of the same year.
Today I weigh 196 with a BMI of 26.6, putting me at the 49th percentile.
My doctor tells me firmly to not lose more.
Calorie control relying on nutrition information, a pyrex graduated cup measure, and a food scale from Bed, Bath, and Beyond was how I did it, and still do it.
Oh, and a little Cassio calculator my wife bought me to check my arithmetic.
And a cheat sheet on which I have scribbled the calories per ounce or gram of many of our favorite foods.
And one day a week, every week, on which we don't count the calories and eat meals we know are above our regular daily limits.
Things like surf and turf, ribs, Thanksgiving dinner, or pot roast.
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Sound fishy to you?
We have a Detecto glass bathroom scale that we have used for several years.
It displays your weight to one decimal place.
I weigh myself daily, and sometimes more than once a day, though I record my weight in a spreadsheet only on Saturdays.
In my experience, if I weigh myself more than once on the same day, even no more than a few minutes apart, I never get the same weight on each try.
In my daily experience I have never got an odd digit after the decimal place, and rarely have I got one in the last digit before the decimal place.
Less, notably less, than 1 % of the time.
It displays your weight to one decimal place.
I weigh myself daily, and sometimes more than once a day, though I record my weight in a spreadsheet only on Saturdays.
In my experience, if I weigh myself more than once on the same day, even no more than a few minutes apart, I never get the same weight on each try.
In my daily experience I have never got an odd digit after the decimal place, and rarely have I got one in the last digit before the decimal place.
Less, notably less, than 1 % of the time.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
The stairs creak a lot less, the less you weigh
When you get down to merely overweight, you don't worry any more that you'll crack one so badly you'll need to replace it.
You could think of a second career as a cat burglar, to help with your retirement years.
Friday, October 13, 2017
It just keeps getting worse
Obesity among all US adults reaches all-time high
The United States will not be escaping the obesity epidemic crisis anytime soon:
Nearly 40% of adults and 19% of youth are obese, the highest rate the country has ever seen in all adults, according to research released Friday by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Since 1999, there has been a staggering rise in the prevalence of obesity, particularly in adults, without any "signs of it slowing down," according to the study's lead researcher, Dr. Craig Hales, medical epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Youth obesity rates seem to be more stable in recent years.
However, it is "too early to tell" what direction youth obesity prevalence will take.
At least four more years of data are required to truly understand the direction, Hales said.
What is "very striking" about this information is that there has been a 30% increase in adult obesity and 33% increase in youth obesity from 1999-2000 data to 2015-16, despite government-focused efforts to address the issue, according to Michael W. Long, assistant professor at the Milken Institute of School Public Health at George Washington University.
The United States will not be escaping the obesity epidemic crisis anytime soon:
Nearly 40% of adults and 19% of youth are obese, the highest rate the country has ever seen in all adults, according to research released Friday by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Since 1999, there has been a staggering rise in the prevalence of obesity, particularly in adults, without any "signs of it slowing down," according to the study's lead researcher, Dr. Craig Hales, medical epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Youth obesity rates seem to be more stable in recent years.
However, it is "too early to tell" what direction youth obesity prevalence will take.
At least four more years of data are required to truly understand the direction, Hales said.
What is "very striking" about this information is that there has been a 30% increase in adult obesity and 33% increase in youth obesity from 1999-2000 data to 2015-16, despite government-focused efforts to address the issue, according to Michael W. Long, assistant professor at the Milken Institute of School Public Health at George Washington University.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
No calorie advantage
The impossible burger from Impossible Foods is entirely meat free and vegan OK, and producing its raw materials involves a whole lot less of a carbon footprint and agricultural resource use than producing the equivalent quantity of beef.
This meat substitute delivers 220 calories in 85 grams ( ~ 3 ounces).
About 230 calories are in 3 ounces of 80 / 20 hamburger, some of which will not make it into your sandwich after you cook it, anyway, staying with whatever fat remains in the pan.
On MSNBC, the burger producer just explained it's priced about the same as hamburger at the grocery store.
This meat substitute delivers 220 calories in 85 grams ( ~ 3 ounces).
About 230 calories are in 3 ounces of 80 / 20 hamburger, some of which will not make it into your sandwich after you cook it, anyway, staying with whatever fat remains in the pan.
On MSNBC, the burger producer just explained it's priced about the same as hamburger at the grocery store.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
40 % of American women are obese
More than ever
Meanwhile the second study revealed that 40% of American women and 35% of American men are obese.
. . . .
The second study, published in Tuesday’s “The Journal of the American Medical Association” and based on data from 2013 and 2014, found that almost twice as many women as men are extremely obese; 9.9% of women and 5.2% of men.
People are considered obese if they have a Body Mass Index of 30 or more, and extremely obese if their number is 40 or more.
For example, a 6-foot person weighing 295 pounds with a BMI of 40 is considered extremely obese, but at 221 pounds would have a BMI of 30, which is obese.
The calculations do not differentiate for men and women.
Researchers based findings on data culled from 2,638 men and 2,817 women collected by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Given that there were no significant differences in age, race or ethnicity of those studied between the last study in 2005 and this, scientists had no answers as to why this is happening.
Meanwhile the second study revealed that 40% of American women and 35% of American men are obese.
. . . .
The second study, published in Tuesday’s “The Journal of the American Medical Association” and based on data from 2013 and 2014, found that almost twice as many women as men are extremely obese; 9.9% of women and 5.2% of men.
People are considered obese if they have a Body Mass Index of 30 or more, and extremely obese if their number is 40 or more.
For example, a 6-foot person weighing 295 pounds with a BMI of 40 is considered extremely obese, but at 221 pounds would have a BMI of 30, which is obese.
The calculations do not differentiate for men and women.
Researchers based findings on data culled from 2,638 men and 2,817 women collected by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Given that there were no significant differences in age, race or ethnicity of those studied between the last study in 2005 and this, scientists had no answers as to why this is happening.
Friday, May 13, 2016
Weight control realism?
Your best weight is whatever weight you reach when you're living the healthiest life that you actually enjoy
If your efforts can be summarized as cyclical, episodic, concentrated bouts of suffering, during which your aim isn't the healthiest life that you can enjoy but rather the healthiest life that you can tolerate, well, go figure you're not likely to keep it off.
If you want to succeed with long-term weight loss, it's crucial that you embrace both reality and imperfection.
Remember, too, that your best efforts will vary.
Your best when facing a challenging time in life will be different from your best when everything is hunky-dory, just as your best on your birthday, or on a vacation, or at a holiday meal will require indulgence.
The truth is there will come a point where you can't happily live any better — where you can't happily eat less and you can't happily exercise more — and your weight, living with that life, is your best weight.
In every other area of our lives we readily accept our best efforts as great, and we need to do that with weight and healthful living too.
If your efforts can be summarized as cyclical, episodic, concentrated bouts of suffering, during which your aim isn't the healthiest life that you can enjoy but rather the healthiest life that you can tolerate, well, go figure you're not likely to keep it off.
If you want to succeed with long-term weight loss, it's crucial that you embrace both reality and imperfection.
Remember, too, that your best efforts will vary.
Your best when facing a challenging time in life will be different from your best when everything is hunky-dory, just as your best on your birthday, or on a vacation, or at a holiday meal will require indulgence.
The truth is there will come a point where you can't happily live any better — where you can't happily eat less and you can't happily exercise more — and your weight, living with that life, is your best weight.
In every other area of our lives we readily accept our best efforts as great, and we need to do that with weight and healthful living too.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
The amazing 600 pound man
I saw one at the mall, today.
He might have been in his mid twenties and walked with a cane.
I am always amazed people that big defy the odds, trying to walk around that much despite the risk of death.
He might have been in his mid twenties and walked with a cane.
I am always amazed people that big defy the odds, trying to walk around that much despite the risk of death.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015
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