Re: Deep South Texas (Rio Grande Valley) fatest in Texas: 80% Hispanic

On Mar 24, 7:34 pm, "GeekBoy" <n...@nerdy.com> wrote:
> AUSTIN - More than a third of Rio Grande Valley residents are obese, the
> highest percentage of any Texas region, according to a study by the state
> comptroller.
>
> Among people living here in the Valley, 37.4 percent are obese, the study
> found.
>
> The report, titled "Counting Costs and Calories: Measuring the Cost of
> Obesity to Texas Employers," examined the cost of obesity to Texas' private
> companies.
>
> Obesity, through insurance costs and other related diseases, cost employers
> more than $3.3 billion in 2005 and could cost as much as $15.8 billion a
> year by 2025, Comptroller Susan Combs said at a news conference Friday.
>
> "You develop other diseases from not taking care of obesity," said Robert
> Puentes, the educational director of University of Texas Pan-American's
> border health program.
>
> "You are less productive because you don't eat well, you aren't exercising
> and you spend time sick being obese."
>
> Obesity is defined as having a body mass index - your weight in kilograms
> divided by the square of your height in meters - of at least 30 or more. The
> Valley was the only region in Texas to have more than 30 percent of its
> population classified as obese.
>
> The Valley had the highest obesity rate, Combs said, because of factors
> including its majority Hispanic population.
>
> Obesity has been linked to the development of type 2 diabetes, which
> Hispanics are at least three times more likely to develop than any other
> race or group, Puentes said. It has also been linked to heart disease,
> depression, certain types of cancer, stroke, breathing problems and
> arthritis, according to the U.S. surgeon general.
>
> At least 26 percent of the Valley has type 2 diabetes, Puentes said.
>
> His group is preparing a study that will look at the diabetes and obesity
> problem in the Valley.
>
> The state comptroller's study sought to survey 150 of the largest private
> companies in Texas. But only 30 responded to the survey, according to the
> published report.
>
> Half of the report focused on the cost to employers. The other half detailed
> the obesity problem in Texas children.
>
> About 42 percent of fourth-graders in Texas were overweight or at risk in
> 2005. More than 70 percent of those children were likely to be overweight as
> adults, Combs said.
>
> Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Lewisville, joined Combs at the news conferment to
> discuss a bill she introduced that would require all students in elementary
> and junior high to take physical education classes every day.
>
> Students from elementary to high school would also be required to have
> health evaluations every semester, she said.
>
> Currently, the state requires all public school districts to offer physical
> education, but it is up to each district to decide whether the classes are
> mandatory for their students. And the health evaluations are done only as
> part of a physical education class.
>
> Locally, Puentes and the UTPA group have started education campaigns in
> elementary and middle schools.
>
> But he said the best the solution to the obesity problem is to exercise, eat
> well and watch out for telltale signs of type 2 diabetes like acanthosis
> nigricans, a black or brown mark on the neck and knuckles that is usually an
> indicator of diabetes in young people.
>
> http://www.themonitor.com/onset?id=1...e=article.html

Fat disgusting mestizoes. Gobbling up food, space, and towns like a
horde of cockroaches.

greg

theodoric3@lycos.com wrote:

> Fat disgusting mestizoes.

I hope you get hit by a truck.

autorun <script@post.zg> wrote:

>theodoric3@lycos.com wrote:
>
>> Fat disgusting mestizoes.
>
>I hope you get hit by a truck.

I doubt it. They drive pretty slowly in his trailer park.