{"id":4006,"date":"2010-09-28T05:49:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T03:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:32:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:32:02","slug":"moving-the-goalposts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/moving-the-goalposts\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving the Goalposts"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Reuters Health<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Chances are slim to none that the U.S. will meet its public health goal of sharply reducing the number of obese adults by this year, according to federal health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since the Healthy People 2010 objective was to reduce the obesity rate to 15%, this may rank as the understatement of the year. As the CDC noted in an August press release<\/a>, the situation has gotten considerably worse since the “Healthy People 2010” initiative began in 2000.<\/p>\n

The number of states with an obesity prevalence of 30 percent or more has tripled in two years to nine states in 2009, according to a CDC Vital Signs<\/em> report. In 2000, no state had an obesity prevalence of 30 percent or more. The report, “State-Specific Obesity Prevalence Among Adults \u2013 United States, 2009,” also finds no state met the nation’s Healthy People 2010 goal to lower obesity prevalence to 15 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what’s the CDC’s answer?\u00a0Move the goalposts!<\/p>\n

The rising tide of obesity “has all but ruled out” the chances that the U.S. will meet its Healthy People 2010 goals, they add, noting that public health officials are now at work on developing new goals for Healthy People 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorry… call me cynical, but given the stunning lack of success between 2000\u00a0 and 2010, I’m not real hopeful that very much will be accomplished between 2010 and 2020. It’s not as if state and local governments have a whole lot of money for programs or infrastructure, after all. If something real does get accomplished, it’s more likely to be through grass roots efforts, and not through top-down initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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