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Hi, this is Dr. Susan Riegg from www.susanrieggmd.com
In this video I'd like to talk a little bit
about the obesity epidemic and also
why it's so important that we search for
diet pills that actually work
on helping us lose weight. So first of all
I am on day number seven of HCG diet.
I started at 187 pounds
and today I am at 182.0 pounds, so I am at
5 pounds down from my starting weight. I have a
picture here of my scale in my office showing my
scale weight at 182.
Everything's going great, no problems at all.
I'm really anxious to get down
maybe another five pounds maybe
I'll keep going a I was
hoping to lose...I'm sorry
hoping to lose ten maybe twelve pounds but
things are going so smoothly I might just get greedy and go down to 15 pounds
but we'll see how it goes.
In today's video I'd like to just
talk a little bit about why
we're having so many problems in this country with overweight and obesity and
why so many people are searching for diet pills
that work on our
fat stores and trying to lose weight with with diet pills.
A little bit about
obesity, this isn't just a problem with
vanity. Obesity is a
very very common serious and costly
health problem more than a third of US adults are obese and this is
contributing to significant health care costs. This I think is
no surprise to anybody. Obesity-related conditions
include heart disease, stroke,
type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, and so on.
Also certain types of cancer, which is really where my interest lies.
As most of you know I'm a pathologist by training
and I spent many many years in a pathology lab diagnosing cancer.
Looking at cancers under the microscope and
many of these cancers are indirectly or even directly related to
overweight, obesity, and poor lifestyle changes. All this
is related to
poor lifestyle, poor dietary
choices and are preventable causes of death.
The estimated annual
medical costs of obesity according to the CDC
in 2008 was a 147 billion dollars.
I can't find the data for 2013 but its
very very hi and growing.
Medical costs for
people who are overweight and obese are at least
fourteen hundred dollars higher than those of normal weight.
All of this data can be found on the CDC website if you're interested in
downloading the PDF and reading the summary.
I'm gonna show you some
data from the CDC website that is based on
BMI. Just as a little bit of background what is
BMI? It's not the best
evaluation of a person's,
I guess body mass,
because it doesn't take into account percentage of
fat and percentage of muscle.
BMI stands for body mass index and it really only takes into account height
and weight.
As you see in this chart that
the X axis on the top here
tells us the BMI and
the y-axis is the height
in feet and inches. As you go across here you see
the weight, so for example I can
give you an example, for me I am six feet zero inches tall.
When I started the diet I was at 187 pounds so I was in the overweight
category. I was slightly
over a BMI of 25.
Now I am
just under this 184 mark so I have just come
into normal range. What you do is you find
the row that is your height and then find your weight
and then travel upwards here and find your BMI.
Now a BMI up to 24.9 is
normal, 25.0 up to 29.9
is in the overweight category,
a BMI of 30.0 or higher
is obese. This is where the high risk range starts.
for increased risk in
health conditions and other problems like insulin resistance, high
pressure, and increased risk for cancer some things like that.
Then a BMI of 40.0 and higher is extreme obesity.
That gives you an idea of what we're looking for in a BMI. Now the CDC
maps that I'm going to show you
show the percentages of
the population that have a BMI of 30 or higher which is a criteria
for population that's obese.
The CDC has been collecting data
since 1985 on obesity
in adults in the United States
As I stated the body mass index of 30 or higher and
body mass index is the measure of adults weight
in relation to the height.
The source of the data is collected through the Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System.
Each year the state health department uses standard procedures to collect the data
through a series of telephone interviews with US
adults. It is self-reported but it is it is reliable.
This information can be found on the CDC website.
We're going to start with 1985 and I'm going to show you the data for every year
up until 2010. They actually changed how they collect the data in 2010 and I'll
go through that.
Starting in 1985
they color-coded the states.
The white states you see they did not have any
data. The states that are a light blue
showed less than 10 percent of the population
had a BMI of 30 or higher.
Then the dark blue states which also included Wisconsin
had a population where
10 percent to 14 percent had a a BMI of 30 or higher so
over 10 percent to 14 percent the population was obese.
Take a look at this
and we're going to compare this to subsequent years since 1985.
Here's 1986
and you see already we have an increase
in a number of states that have
10 percent to 14 percent of the population
being obese. Now 1987
1988, 1989, and
1990. Now let's stop a minute;
1990 is not that long ago.
This was when the first Geroge Bush was president, these are the early days of the internet.
Already just
in 5 years that we've seen data you've seen a substantial
increase in the percentage of the population
in this country that has
demonstrated obesity. Let's keep going
now to 1991, here for the first time we see
several states showing
15 percent to 19 percent of their population
with
a BMI of 30 or higher. Now 1992
1993, 1994,
1995, 1996,
1997 and we will stop again.
This is not the spread of the swine flu but doesn't it look like it?
I mean this looks like the spread of a contagious disease. It's a very strange
pattern.
In seven years from 1990 to
1997 we've seen double the number of
obese people, in just seven years.
This to me is terrifying. This is not evolution.
This is a very dramatic spread
of something very significant
and it gets worse.
Let's keep going; 1998,
1999, 2000, 2001 and now for the first time we have a state with over 25 percent
the population now being obese.
In 2002, 2003,
2004, and 2005.
Now we actually have to change the colors
because now we have states with over 30 percent of the population
being obese. In 2006
colorado's holding out here, 2007
2008, 2009,
and 2010.
This is a summary slide to show
two decades. Here's where we started in 1990, ten years later in 2000, and ten
years later in 2010.
What a dramatic change. Again
this is not evolution, this is
a very dramatic change in
the percentage of the population that is obese.
If this is not the most profound and significant
problem that faces us as a society, I don't know what is.
This shows absolutely no signs of slowing down.
We don't know the cause, we have ideas,
but it's multi factorial and obviously contributing significantly to
health care costs in this country. Now in 2011
the CDC changed how they collected the data.
I'm not going to
go into a lot of detail on this. If you'd like to review this you can pause
this video and just read through this.
Needless to say it is clear the percentages continue to increase
for 2011 and 2012 and I do not have
the data for 2013.
Citations are present on the CDC website.
The reason I present this data is that of course we continue to
search for anything and everything that might
help us in our efforts to lose weight.
This is the reason that I
help my patients lose weight with HCG
pills or HCG drops. HCG
is extremely effective not only in helping patients lose weight but
maintaining the weight loss. If you're interested in any more information
about HCG or would like to follow my progress on my hcg diet
come to my website at www.susanrieggmd.com.
I hope to chat with you soon. Take care, bye bye.