‘Millenniums’ set to become heaviest generation ever

It's mostly young women I see who are fat, morbidly obese, legs like tree trunks some of them have while the boys, young men in their skinny jeans have lovely slim legs. Stop eating junk food have a bit of pride in their appearance would be a start.

Oddly enough ninny this was the photo on the BBC website about the report.

I wonder whose legs they are?
Do they get permission?
I live in fear of seeing my belly wobbling past on a news report.

It must be our fault, everything else is! Actually I wonder if there is some truth in that? Have we over-indulged the next generation so they have no self control and feel entitled? They can't look forward and only look back and complain? Fortunately my children and grandchildren are very fit and no overweight unless you include the one who is not yet crawling and is lovely and chubby!

Possibly Nonnie. Or do you think we’ve made being ‘plus size’ the new norm?

We have to accept now that big is beautiful, now.
I'm surprised really, considering how many gyms and exercise classes there are, that people are getting bigger.

I think plus size is the new norm and big bums look at Kim Kardashican, in my young days it was does my bum look big in this and shame and horror if it did not supersize my bum because I want it to be big

People are getting heavier on average because they eat more than previous generations ever have. Food is easy and abundant and we have not yet evolved to cope with not having to struggle for enough to eat.

I think the guff about it being the fault of 'junk' food is just guff (perhaps even junk). The fault is excess.

This is not to blame people. It is a comment on how I think things just are between human beings and their food supply.

I think that all the time it’s cheaper and easier to get ready meals that go into the oven or microwave, people will buy them and enjoy eating them!
If we can’t teach our children to cook, can we at least teach them about nutrition, calorie counting and sugar content, plus the fact that a ready meal chicken curry (seemingly a popular meal) can have so much fat content in it, that a heart attack is waiting around the corner.
I’m so used to looking at labels as my DDs and GCs are vegetarians, but I’m amazed at the number of calories that are in some foods.
However, it seems that nobody particularly worries,our receptionist at the local hospital is extremely overweight as are some of the nurses, if they can’t watch their diet, who can?
On a personal note, I used to squeeze into a size 14 with a well known store, now it swamps me, have I lost weight ? Nope.but I’m now a size 12. Yaaay.

True Baggs our bodies have evolved to make do wth what little was available. Now there’s a glut of food.

If you define junk food as food which is low in nutritional value and relatively high in fat, sugar and salt, then the problem is satiety. Generally, such food is low satiety.
It doesn’t make you feel full, so you go on eating more, and consuming more calories, than if you had consumed something of equal calories, but high satiety.
I accept that not all food that people dismiss as junk food has low nutritional value, but the junk food which tends to be eaten as snacks rather than main meals often is.

MissA ...that made me laugh ( fear of seeing your belly wobbling past on tv!)

baggs I agree, it’s just too much food without the exercise.
If you don’t do a manual job then don’t eat so much.
Eating whilst watching tv seems to a national pastime as well.
Link all that with not walking anywhere if you can jump into a car and it’s a recipe for obesity.

Has any research been done into when obese people put on the weight? It would be interesting to know if it started when parents were in charge of providing food or if it started later.

Nonnie
"• In 2015, 58% of women and 68% of men were
overweight or obese. Obesity prevalence
increased from 15% in 1993 to 27% in 2015.
• In 2015/16, over 1 in 5 children in Reception,
and over 1 in 3 children in Year 6 were
measured as obese or overweight."
Statistics from this NHS report
www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/613532/obes-phys-acti-diet-eng-2017-rep.pdf

There was an ad with a picture of a 'beach body model' on it. Fit, toned, slim and it caused a storm of controversy as it 'shamed' fat people.
I'm not sure, but I think it was removed from billboards.

The storm of protest over the 'beach body advert was due to concerns about young girls and unrealistic body size and shape expectations which could lead to eating disorders MissAdventure, all the models were of very low BMI. I agree that being overweight to some degree seems to be the norm now, but I am not sure it is just the millenial generation, on a recent holiday I saw a lot of huge male bellies bulging over shorts, and women who were very 'chunky' and they were all of the over 50 age group. I am overweight myself, although not obese, and have two beanpole millennials!

Is there something wrong with fat people feeling ashamed Annie?

Some of us have everything stacked against us, meds which make us crave carbs, hypothyroidism etc but we just do our best to stay within the 'a bit overweight' range rather than obese. Is self -control dead? I remember giving up smoking without any kind of help, no patches or nicorette etc in those days. Oops, will the contrary brigade tell me to stop rubbing my halo again? Just stated facts.

Renee, the model shown in the posters here is within the bmi range which is considered healthy apparently. She looks great to me.

I’m with you in your thinking Nonnie. There seems to be a cult which glorifies obesity and tries to make it the norm.

If, for no other reason except the perilous state of our NHS shelling out vast amounts on illnesses, including diabetes and several cancers, which are linked to obesity, then the seriously overweight should stop and think.

Too large portions, additives, hormones added to meat to increase animal size which goes into the food chain and surely over time will add to increased weight of those consuming, and lack of movement. As a teenager I walked everywhere, we did not have a car. Nowadays, people drive and sit, housework is so much easier than our mother's and grandmother's generation with all the conveniences of modern day appliances. Not sure where the answer lies, everything seems a contradiction and out of balance

Food is marketed to young people that can hardly be called food if you are looking at nutrition. Makes you wonder how they can get away with it.....

I think all the additives and so on are quite addictive, loaded with sugar, and so on, but its really up to young people to decide for themselves.
Not that I can talk! (Tub-of-lard-emoji)

Is it really ok for young people to ‘decide for themselves’?

Well, I certainly don't want to decide for them. Presumably they're young adults, aren't they?