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Wonder if rampant hypothyroidism has anything to do with it

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Half of U.S. Adults Obese by 2030?

medpagetoday.com/endocrinol...

I suspect that properly treating people with hypothyroidism would roll back that problem quite a bit.

Are there any predictions about the future of obesity in the UK?

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dtate2016

Oh yes - absolutely. Many factors contributing, including the US / American diet, ie, eating out 75% of the time. Recent quote: “You can’t lose weight from a drive through window.” But yes, rampant hypothyroidism no doubt.

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penny

Some years ago a relative gave me a copy of a medical article in The Reader’s Digest which stated that obesity is nothing more than over-eating and hormonal problems, such as hypothyroidism, had nothing to do with it. With that sort of attitude it’s no wonder we don’t get the proper treatment.

I do wonder if the rise in obesity and heart-attacks is due to the increase in the use of statins.

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I would blame diet. The amount of sugar in the diet is immense and horrendous. And it gets hidden under so many different names.

Names for sugar found on food products in the USA :

sugarscience.ucsf.edu/hidde...

Names for sugar found on food products in the UK :

bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

Names for sugar found on food products in Australia :

jetts.com.au/jetts-life/nut...

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vocalEK in reply tohumanbean

What ticks me off is when manufacturers add sugar to foods that have no business tasting sweet! I was about to buy some chicken salad at Costco today. Looked freshly made in store. Good thing I looked at the label. The 3rd ingredient was potato starch, then there was some other type of starch, and sure enough, sugar. Chicken salad does not need sweetening, nor starching. In fact, it doesn't need any more than 3 or 4 ingredients. They took a perfectly low-carb dish and added a bunch of carbs to iit.

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helvella in reply tovocalEK

And when the (long) list of ingredients includes multiple variations on sugar:

agave syrup

dextrose

liquid glucose

glucose-fructose syrup

dates

maltodextrin

molasses

And, despite these, all too often there are artificial sweeteners as well!

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LAHs in reply tovocalEK

Yes, I feel the same way about butter. Would you fry a steak in sweet cream butter? Almost all the butters are "sweet", only "Danish Creameries" butter is unsweetened - and that is the one I buy.

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