I have a desk job. I lost 15 lbs...

Weird...

Maybe it's because I don't eat like a pig and run with my dog. 3 times a day. (short runs. He's a lazy ass.)

jwhite1083, if you're saying you quit running your dog, now sit at a desk, and have "lost weight", you'd better get to your doctor fast and check to see just how much muscle you've dropped and fat you've added! Remember, it's normal to be heavier when you're in top shape because muscle is denser than fat! With a dress suit on, an athlete who weighs 220 pounds may look like someone who doesn't exercise that weighs 190, but the muscle tone, heart rate, blood pressure, etc. of the two men is like night and day!

I contend that a lot of obesity problems ar directly tied to ingredients in the food being eaten. If you pick high fructose corn syrup, MSG, or genetically modified foods, prepare to be fat. Eating organic foods will allow your body to recuperate to it's natural state of non obesity. It will take some time though.

Haha! perfect

Janet, please stop eating the mushrooms in your front yard.

Diabetes is either congenital, or a direct result of insulin resistance often caused by obesity.

Obesity is caused by too much food, and/or not enough exercise.

Type 2 diabetes can be treated and often cured with changes in diet and exercise.

You are a complete retard for thinking anything else.

CaptainObvious--not really a good name for you.

It will eventually dawn on people that diabetes is the cause of obesity rather than the result of it. I started having issues with my blood sugar, and because my doctor pooh-poohed my concerns and did not explain how I could keep my blood sugar level, the only way for me to keep it level was to eat whenever I felt bad.

I assure you that the peridiabetes (I am making this word up, as there is already a "prediabetes) condition is extremely unpleasant--categorized by fatigue, headaches, and muscle soreness (all of which also led to a lower level of activity). And, yes, I did have the traditional test for blood sugar problems--which turned up nothing as it only tests for diabetes once it has set in. They haven't yet figured out that there is this condition that precedes it.

Only then did I put on weight--largely caused by a futile attempt to keep my blood sugar level by diet. If doctors took people seriously, early on, then they would probably be helped. And, you know what, I would not be surprised if Janet turned out to be partially right and that there is some component to our diets right now (hormones in meat? too much HFCS in all the food we eat) that is causing people to develop this condition that leads to obesity and finally to full-blown diabetes.

You know, you might want to put a teeny bit less faith in doctors--as doctors can only treat what other people have discovered and told them how to treat. Doctors are little puppets--if you don't have something that shows up on their little tests, then they think you are lying, drug-seeking, or just hypochondriacal. When you finally develop what you said you were having trouble with, they never admit that they were wrong. It is just a "coincidence" that you did later develop the problem--as their little test "proved" them right.

Too little is known about what the changes in the American diet--which, yes, were in part caused by the move to big corporate farming and the use of chemicals to increase profits--does to people. And too little is known about diabetes. So, maybe you can stop being quite so dismissive of others (even when they are being pretty histrionic).

Too many sweeteners.

To steal an old line "I don't know why they call it common sense, it ain't that common any more"

economykiller--sweetie, this study proves the opposite of what people have believed in the past. People in the past believed that obesity was caused by people eating more calories via fast food, compounded by inactivity during leisure hours (during which they would mindlessly eat while watching TV).

This study proves that people are already eating fewer calories and exercising more during their leisure hours--and yet, people are gaining weight.

You might want to pay attention when you read--because this point is in the article already. They are surprised to find that most people are already eating fewer calories (which is true for me) are more active than they used to be (also true for me) but are gaining weight. Right now, they are attributing it to sitting down at work--soon they may also connect it to working with computers (because computers, like television, stimulate the animal brain by making it think that the person is sitting by a campfire in the winter and needs to store as much fat as possible).

At some point, the pedantic bozos who want to blame obesity on people stuffing their faces with triple whoppers and staring at the television set for long hours will finally have to admit that the increase in obesity is more the result of changes in the environment (what people do at work, and what food they have access to, and what illnesses these things cause) than any behaviors of the fat/lazy/moronic "others" who aren't as thin as they are.

Obesity is to the modern workplace (compounded by the food available to middleclass and lower workers) what black lung is to coal miners. It's an occupational hazard.

sweetie, this study proves the opposite of what people have believed in the past.

Bean@home - Almost nobody who has commented so far actually paid attention to the article. Some people need to brush up on their reading comprehension skills.

The study found adults took in fewer calories in 2004 than they did in 1972, and leisure-time physical activity rose over a similar time period... yet obesity rates continue to rise

Bean...Are you kidding me????

Right now, they are attributing it to sitting down at work--soon they may also connect it to working with computers (because computers, like television, stimulate the animal brain by making it think that the person is sitting by a campfire in the winter and needs to store as much fat as possible).

I attribute it to the fact that the majority of people are morons with no determination or fortitude.

We should all try to eat more grains, nuts, fruit, vegies and meat, What the earth provides and less man made ingredients (hormones, preservatives, flour products) Man survived for thousands of years before modernization on such a diet.

I will eat good, natural foods and exercise regularly while you re body sits and thinks its hibernating...ridiculous.

I challenge the fatties who want to believe this to jot down the food they eat daily, its nutritional value and there activity level and compare it to what a person with their RMR should be eating and the suggested split of macronutrients the body needs.

Canadian tax dollars are the usual sources of grant funds for Canadian public universities.

Glad to see their country is as efficient and forward-thinking as ever.

I was going to say DUH, but you beat me to it.

LOL!!!! Neener neener :-)

That should translate into a noticeable drop in the cost of health insurance for the company...

thank you Speedy...morons

Actually Michael-06172005 I didn't state that. I was making fun of that simplistic unhelpful message.

You can exercise more and eat better tasting food and still get fat because food additives, HFCS, MSG, Asparame, and GMO foods. They are all ways to keep one fat. The food industry likes money and if you eat lots of food that tastes good, but has no vitamin content, you will continue to stuff your face to unconsciously try to get the vitamins your body needs. Just like a lab rat. Speaking of lab rats, MSG was designed specifically to make lab rats hungry so they would eat whatever was put in front of them for experiments. Amazing how it appeared in our food supply.

I'm in total agreement