How Obese is YOUR State?

Too fat makes too slow a calorie burn. My oldest daughter just returned from testing to see how many calories she burns just to stay alive. Based on that number, a daily calorie limit was suggested for her to lose weight.

She is now insulin resistant and her entire blood sugar system is only a point away from diabetes.
She also found out that at her weight - a half hour of hard exercise will only burn 180 calories.

Makes you want to just not bother with exercise. Here is the vicious cycle. If she will exercise, she will develop more muscle and more muscle will burn more calories and eventually that half hour of exercise will burn 300 calories. If she continues to not exercise - that calorie burn may become even lower.

The diet changes she must make will be for the rest of her life.

Want to know which states are the fattest?


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Part of the problem is what we see on TV. How many times have you finished your evening meal and sat down to watch your favorite show? Commercials - pizza, hamburgers, steak, suddenly you feel hungry again.

How much harder this is for children. TV is their friend and companion. If friend says eat this, that is what they are going to ask for. In a fast food world with harried parents trying to fit 30 hours in every 24 hour day - the kids usually get what they are whining about.

Now maybe you can't get them to eat tofu, but you can feed them apples and bananas. Hey, I won't eat tofu either.

Check out the information in this study of children's TV commercials.

TV Ads for Junk Food: A Link to Kids' Obesity?