{"id":1744,"date":"2017-07-28T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:51:50","slug":"study-90-percent-of-american-men-are-overfat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Study: 90 Percent Of American Men Are \u2018Overfat\u2019&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299ea88970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Overfat\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299ea88970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299ea88970c-250wi\" style=\"width: 205px;\" title=\"Overfat\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Overfat&quot; defined as your waist measurement more than half your height. So I&#39;m in the 90%. If you&#39;re a woman don&#39;t smirk -the % of American overfat women is 80%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/overfat-american-men-weight\/\">They particularly looked at excess fat stored in the abdomen region, which is associated with an increased risk of chronic disease (e.g., cancer, stroke, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes), higher levels of morbidity and mortality, and reduced quality of life.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An here&#39;s another article from Science Daily that&#39;s a little more detailed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/07\/170724105111.htm\">If so, you may be part of the global overfat pandemic. A recent article, published in Frontiers in Public Health, suggests it to be even more prevalent in developed countries where up to 90 percent of adult males and 50 percent children may suffer from this condition. In the top overfat countries, 80 percent of women fall into this category.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Overfat&quot; defined as your waist measurement more than half your height. So I&#39;m in the 90%. If you&#39;re a woman don&#39;t smirk -the % of American overfat women is 80%. They particularly looked at excess fat stored in the abdomen region, which is associated with an increased risk of chronic disease (e.g., cancer, stroke, heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}