70% of Irish women classified as centrally obese.....

x in the city

shocking tbh......

Holsten

lolwut

OctavarIan

It's 70% of all Irish adults iirc.

Terry

You have until I take a leak to back this up or the thread is gone.

Wait. No. I'll have a cigarette.
That's a good 4 or 5 minutes.

AlmightyCushion

Op, PM me with a link to a news story backing this up and I'll re-open it otherwise I'll consider it trolling and it'll stay locked.

AlmightyCushion

Thread re-opened. Link and article below.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1125/obesity.html

A new report shows two out of three Irish adults are at an unhealthy weight, with almost 25% being obese.

The study, Dietary Habits of the Irish Population, which was funded by the Department of Health, says Irish people eat too many foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt.

A major concern in the Irish diet is the over-consumption of foods from the top level of the so-called food pyramid such as oils, butter, cakes and biscuits.

These are meant to be used sparingly, less than three servings a day.

But the survey found Irish people are eating 7.3 servings of these foods, which are high in fats and sugar.

Another measure used in the survey is called central obesity - it is based on waist size.

47% of men, and 70% of women were defined as centrally obese. This can lead to a higher risk of diabetes or heart disease.

It found many people do not eat enough fibre, Irish women do not get enough calcium or iron, and most eat far too much salt.

71% exceeded the recommended 6 grams of salt per day - and these figures do not include the salt added during cooking or at the table, so the true salt intake is actually much higher.

A third of salt intake comes from cereals, bread and potatoes.

The Department of Health says it will publish a National Nutrition Policy aimed at young people next year, and is working under an EU framework to reduce salt content in our food by 16% over the next four years.

Newaglish

Wikipedia wrote:

Central obesity, the "apple-shaped" obesity commonly referred to as belly fat, is the accumulation of visceral fat (fat deposited between the internal organs in the torso) resulting in an increase in waist size. There is a strong correlation between central obesity and cardiovascular disease.[1]

While central obesity can be obvious just by looking at the naked body (see the picture), the severity of central obesity is determined by taking waist and hip measurements. The absolute waist circumference (>102 centimetres (40 in) in men and >88 centimetres (35 in) in women) and the waist-hip ratio (>0.9 for men and >0.85 for women)[1] are both used as measures of central obesity. In the scientific experiment known as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), which included almost 15,000 people, waist circumference explained obesity-related health risk significantly better than the body mass index (or BMI) when metabolic syndrome was taken as an outcome measure.[2]

70%?! Seems high.

Where do these get these stats from? I've never been weighed!

humbert

Graps popcorn and waits. Considers figure. Gives popcorn to centrally obese female friend.

Fionnanc

70%! ~Is that all?

MooseJam

the wimmins like their pies

murfie

I would be inclined to believe this. sounds about right to me when all you see if fatties in the bars and nightclubs in Ireland. And its only getting worse unfortunately.

so 7/10 women have a pot belly?:eek:

a rocky start to the thread with lockings and such..


i'd believe a good percentage are. our women compare terribly to canadians, europeans, australians, russians, japanese, thais, philipinos and the welsh.

Aidric

It's nice to see Mary Harney leading by example on this one.

Guy:Incognito

Are these list of "unhealtily overweight" made by the same people who consider more than 2 pints in a sitting dangerous binge drinking?

If so I assume anyone over 9 stone is funked?

MooseJam

hardly, you just have to look around to see the problem, big fat heifers everywhere

Aidric

Aidric wrote: »

It's nice to see Mary Harney leading by example on this one.

LOL. Yeah, our Minister for central obesity

ShooterSF

Aidric wrote: »

It's nice to see Mary Harney leading by example on this one.

Damn populists

Fizman

Do you mean to say that 70%....... at this time....... are fat.....all the time?

Kiera

Meh! Its all lies!

/shoves another triple quarter pounder, batter sausage, chips, onion rings and spice burger into her mouth.

Paid good money for this belly!

Melange

Sure, there are quite a few overweight/obese people out there, but 70%? Wow. I would have put the number at less than half that.

dakar

Harney needs decentralising.

MooseJam

I've said it before but it should be made ilegal to sell clothes over a certain size like maybe size 10

Lirange

Real women have flab flaps.

Kiera

MooseJam wrote: »

I've said it before but it should be made ilegal to sell clothes over a certain size like maybe size 10

So you wanna see naked fat people?

You're sick, dude!!!

Fizman

MooseJam wrote: »

I've said it before but it should be made ilegal to sell clothes over a certain size like maybe size 10

And have millions of naked fatties rolling around our streets? Hell no brother!

Unless you are a chubby-chaser, bad idea!

stovelid

murfie wrote: »

I would be inclined to believe this. sounds about right to me when all you see if fatties in the bars and nightclubs in Ireland. And its only getting worse unfortunately.

You posted this from America?

Lirange

Lirange wrote: »

Real women have flab flaps.

flabby flaps?

arse..biscuits

MooseJam wrote: »

I've said it before but it should be made ilegal to sell clothes over a certain size like maybe size 10

Naked fatties everywhere, do it

litup

Melange wrote: »

Sure, there are quite a few overweight/obese people out there, but 70%? Wow. I would have put the number at less than half that.

It is less than half. If you read the link it says around 25% are obese (based on BMI). Over 70% are centrally obese which is a measure of waist size to height. Our natural body shape in this country is the 'apple' shape i.e. bigger round the middle. It has been proven to be more dangerous to carry any extra weight around this area.

Either way, 25% is still pretty high...

Lirange

rarnes1 wrote: »

flabby flaps?

Three aisles to your left on the shelf between the tubby tubs and the rumpy rumps.

The absolute waist circumference (>102 centimetres (40 in) in men and >88 centimetres (35 in) in women) and the waist-hip ratio (>0.9 for men and >0.85 for women)[1] are both used as measures of central obesity.

from wiki
At least now I know what they're on about...

Still seems a high %

Melange

litup wrote: »

It is less than half. If you read the link it says around 25% are obese (based on BMI). Over 70% are centrally obese which is a measure of waist size to height. Our natural body shape in this country is the 'apple' shape i.e. bigger round the middle. It has been proven to be more dangerous to carry any extra weight around this area.

Either way, 25% is still pretty high...

Oh, I do know that it specifically refers to central obesity. I still think that 70% is an extraordinarily high number for that.

Lirange

I have yet to meet wan with peripheral obesity.

jester77

Sure won't the recession sort this out, less pies to go round... there will only be 40% of them obese in 12 months, just wait and see....

Terry

rarnes1 wrote: »

so 7/10 women have a pot belly?:eek:

Fabienne: I was looking at myself in the mirror.
Butch: Uh-huh?
Fabienne: I wish I had a pot.
Butch: You were lookin' in the mirror and you wish you had some pot?
Fabienne: A pot. A pot belly. Pot bellies are sexy.
Butch: Well you should be happy, 'cause you do.
Fabienne: Shut up, Fatso! I don't have a pot! I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna when she did "Lucky Star," it's not the same thing.
Butch: I didn't realize there was a difference between a tummy and a pot belly.
Fabienne: The difference is huge.
Butch: You want me to have a pot?
Fabienne: No. Pot bellies make a man look either oafish, or like a gorilla. But on a woman, a pot belly is very sexy. The rest of you is normal. Normal face, normal legs, normal hips, normal ass, but with a big, perfectly round pot belly. If I had one, I'd wear a tee-shirt two sizes too small to accentuate it.
Butch: You think guys would find that attractive?
Fabienne: I don't give a damn what men find attractive. It's unfortunate what we find pleasing to the touch and pleasing to the eye is seldom the same.

Kiera wrote: »

Meh! Its all lies!

/shoves another triple quarter pounder, batter sausage, chips, onion rings and spice burger into her mouth.

Paid good money for this belly!

I saw this thing with Stephen Fry in America last week.
He was in the south and they fed him a burger covered with batter. He had never seen anything like it.
Probably best to keep the battered sausages away from him.

Victor McDade

dakar wrote: »

Harney needs decentralising.

Impossible. That oversized blimp is central to EVERYTHING

The Bollox

who the f*ck cares?

CreepingDeath

The solution is simple.

Have narrow turnstiles into all supermarkets, takeaways, pubs and restaurants.

Rowley Birkin QC

Bahahahaha, AH was right, foreign wimmins are hotter than Irish fatties. :pac::pac:

CreepingDeath

Another easy to implement solution...

Release the tigers in Dublin Zoo.
Reintroduce survival of the fittest and natural selection to balance out the numbers.

Fizman

The Bollox wrote: »

who the f*ck cares?

I think I know who is part of that 70%! :pac:

big_show

So let me get this straight, 53% of men look after them selves better then 70% of women? :pac:

seanos1

its true!

97i9y3941

wont be suprised when i see the ambulance drivers loading people into the back of the ambulance with an forklift truck one of these days!.

Fizman

bigkev49 wrote: »

Bahahahaha, AH was right, foreign wimmins are hotter than Irish fatties. :pac::pac:

Something along these lines?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V9C0D6Mw48

A friend of mine used to work the oil rigs in the North sea, he said that if there was an incident and the crew ended up in the drink.

The ones with the best chance of survival were the 3F's.

Fit! Fat! Females!

Thewre you go ladies, not all bad news, but then again how often do you intend to drop into the north sea!

97i9y3941

CreepingDeath wrote: »

The solution is simple.

Have narrow turnstiles into all supermarkets, takeaways, pubs and restaurants.

someone told me when he was in the usa,they did that in mc donalds with the doors so obese people coundnt come in!

javaboy

These stats came from the census. By a bizarre coincidence, that episode of the Simpsons where Homer deliberately gains weight to claim a disability and work from home was on telly at the same time a lot of people happened to be filling in the forms. They only ticked the "I'm a fatty" box because they thought there was money in it for them.

97i9y3941

been suggested before,taxing them since they put more pressure on health system with ailments they suffer,another one suggested was doing the same on flights

Fred83

Fred83 wrote: »

someone told me when he was in the usa,they did that in mc donalds with the doors so obese people coundnt come in!

I have an image of the ones in Texas being 2 metres wide!