Hey, wanna get Naked?

Hey, wanna get Naked?

Great pickup line, right? I discovered this great tasting drink about two months ago, and I haven’t had anything better tasting since. It comes packed with a full pound of fruit in every bottle.

Personally, I think it tastes better and is more satisfying than an ice cream smoothie. So why an article about getting Naked? Well, let’s talk about obesity in America. Personally, I think there is enough fat in America to feed the starving children of Africa….

According to HealthGoods one in three Americans aged 20 to 74 are overweight. That’s 58 million Americans!!! That’s also disgusting. Here are some more statistics and facts:

• Doctors usually agree that men with 25% or more body fat and women with a body fat of 30% or more are considered overweight(HealthGoods).
• Globally, there are more than 1 billion overweight adults, at least 300 million of them obese (World Health Organization).
• Obesity and being overweight can lead to chronic illnesses, irregular blood pressure, cholesterol problems, and insulin resistance(World Health Organization).

Causes

• Sleep deprivation (CBS News)
• Pollution (hormonal imbalance from chemicals) (CBS)
• Air conditioning(CBS)
• DECREASED smoking(CBS)
• Medicines (CBS)
• Ethnicity (CBS
• Mothers at an older age giving birth lead to a higher risk or child obesity (CBS)
• Genetics (CBS)
• Sitting in front of the television (video games, couch potato activities, etc…) (common knowledge)
• Lack of exercise (common knowledge)

So, just how much, is too much? Let’s take the average adult female, no ethnicity or age taken into account. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted from 1999-2002 also found at About.com, the average adult female weighs 162.9 pounds. Let’s assume this one particular female is overweight and no more, exactly 30% of her body weight is fat. That is 48.87 pounds! Yuck! Now, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, Women’s Health 2005 US, 27.3 percent of women in the US are overweight. According to the CIA World Fact Book, updated in 2008, there are 124,588,737 women aged 15 and older in the US. Since 27.3% of women in the US are overweight, that means that there are roughly 34 million overweight women in the US. Assuming they are all borderline overweight(which they all aren’t), that gives us a minimum of 1.66 billion pounds of fat in just overweight women. Not to mention that we haven’t even considered the women that are obese or the males yet.

Just think of how much food 1.66 billion pounds of fat amounted to and how many people that could have been fed. It’s a gory thought, but maybe we should liposuction all the overweight people in the US and feed the world…

So, what’s the moral of the story? Basically, go get Naked! It’s healthy, tasty, and damn; it sounds great!