Americans less healthy than others (via AFP)
Americans are in worse health, die earlier and suffer from more disease than residents of other wealthy nations, according to a new study out Wednesday. The disadvantage spans all ages from birth to 75, said the report, conducted jointly by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine…
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I read a surprising study that found that Americans still don’t understand the risks associated with obesity. Maybe because it’s so prevalent people are telling themselves it’s OK?
I think that’s one of the biggest problems, Lorie. And the fashion industry hasn’t done us any favors by using ‘vanity sizing’ to gradually lower the sizes of women’s (and men’s?) garments over the past few decades, just to lure us into thinking we’re a smaller size than we really are. For example, when my mother died in 1994, I went through her clothing and saw that she still had some items from the previous 30+ years. She was only about 5 feet 3 inches tall, and at most about 125-130 pounds. That would put her at about a size 6 in today’s clothing, but most of her older pieces were all labeled at size 12. When I tried some on, they either fit just right, or were snug on me, and I wear an 8! Another example is the claim that Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. Well, that was the 14 of the 1950s, which is the 8/10 of today, and without the benefit of spandex that seems to be in all of our clothes today (thankfully…)! That tells you how much the fashion industry has skewed the sizing to fool us into thinking we haven’t gotten any larger. If I can squeeze into a single-digit size, I’m less likely to want to take off another 10 or 20 pounds, even if the scale (and my doctor) says I should!