Economic researchers from Florida State University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston found the weight of the average woman rose by 20 pounds (9.2 kilograms) or 13.5 percent between 1976 and 2000 -- but their ideal weight also edged up.
In 1994 the average woman tipped the scales at 147 pounds but she wanted to weigh only 132 pounds -- but less than a decade later the average woman weighed 153 pounds but said her desired weight was 135 pounds,
"This is a social force that we are trying to document because the rise in obesity has occurred so rapidly over the past 30 years," Frank Heiland, an assistant professor of economics at Florida State University, said in a statement.
Anyone who has seen what people buy in the popular grocery stores saw this coming. Combine this with the forced acceptance of being fat by the thought police from the "your ok, I'm ok it's all ok" camp and we have a tidal wave of blubber.
Now I'm not totally ignorant, I realize some people have a defect in the receptors in the brain that tell you to stop eating, but that is not everyone.
....and to think, at 5' 1 3/4" and approximately 100lbs - my doctor still considers me UNDER weight. No, I'm not bragging. I'm just saying I think I've gone backwards. Hmmm....
"Anyone who has seen what people buy in the popular grocery stores saw this coming."
True. Anytime you take food in its' natural, organic form and add preservatives, steriods, hormones and refined ingredients - you're headed right into disaster.
Posted by: mrs. muddy at August 8, 2007 11:46 PMWE call it Fatmerica. ANd its coming to europe now.
Posted by: df at August 17, 2007 12:59 PM