Obesity Epidemic

Pandemic Policies Have Caused Obesity Rates to Surge Across the USA

by Mike Mutzel

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Pandemic policies have caused Overweight and Obesity rates to surge in Children and Adults across the USA, new CDC report find.

 

 

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2021). Longitudinal Trends in Body Mass Index Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Persons Aged 2–19 Years — United States, 2018–2020, 1–6.

Woolford, S. J., Sidell, M., Li, X., Else, V., Young, D. R., Resnicow, K., & Koebnick, C. (2021). Changes in Body Mass Index Among Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Jama. http://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.15036

 

CDC Newsroom: Number of States with High Obesity Prevalance Rises to Sixteen. (2021). CDC Newsroom: Number of States with High Obesity Prevalance Rises to Sixteen. Retrieved September 18, 2021, from https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0915-obesity-rate.html

Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro
0:25 Obesity Rates Surge in Kids
0:47 First report showing Childhood obesity rates have doubled
1:28 New CDC report—Obesity Rates have skyrocketed
2:02 460 Kids have died from C*19
2:58 Millions of kids are now more overweight
4:44 JAMA Article, Obesity Rates in kids
5:38 Details of the CDD Findings
6:56 Bad Pandemic Policies are the problem
7:50 Obesity rates in kids, details
8:39 Preventing obesity in the first place is best
9:36 Recidivism and Obesity
14:28 Why gym closures were bad
15:53 Obesity rates in adults got worse, too

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