Half of women 20 to 39 overweight. Oh, the horror!!! [View All]

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More Dangerous Than Smoking? Death by Soda

By Joshua Frank, AlterNet. Posted December 27, 2006.

Drinking one soda a day could cause you to gain 15 pounds a year. Other related health risks include type 2 diabetes, heart disease, bowel cancer and nerve damage.

We are a country of overweight people. Americans are tipping the scales in record numbers, with approximately 130 million who are presently considered overweight or obese. Perhaps most alarmingly of all, half of all women aged 20 to 39 in the United States are included in these figures. Many factors contribute to the growing problem, from our sedentary lifestyles to our overindulgence in high-energy, low nutritional foods. Dealing with the crisis is not easy. The marketing of energy dense foods is a multi-billion dollar industry, and manufacturers of such products go to great lengths to ensure their shareholders continue to profit from the sales of nutrition-less foods.

http://www.alternet.org/story/45498

This is an article about soda and sugary foods but why does the author express alarm about this particular demographic?

Oh yeah, because we're the designated sex objects. :eyes:

He doesn't cite male statistics and doesn't differentiate between "overweight" or "obese" in the women. Considering that young women of any weight have about the lowest mortality rate of any group, I don't understand why Joshua needed to point that out.


This was posted several days ago in DU and again today in the Health forum. I contacted the site to inquire about the comment but didn't get a response from the author. I also posted a comment to the previous OP and one person responded with some earnest sounding nonsense about the health of these women and to chide me for having "a pity party" as he (I assume it was a he) put it. I asked him if he'd been to a mall lately and seen all the overweight men and boys walking around. No answer to that, natch.

I'm tired of the food and weight police in general, and I'm REALLY tired of the same old sexist objectification dressed up as Concern For Your Health.