Thinnest Americans Are Asian

[Guest ExChinaExpat]

It's not as if none of us didn't know this, but now the CDC learned it. Haha.....

 

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The thinnest Americans are Asian Americans, CDC data show

 

Which Americans are least likely to be overweight or obese? Asian Americans, by a long shot. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that 38.6% of Asian American adults have a body mass index over 25, the threshold for being considered overweight. That’s far below the 66.7% rate among whites, 76.7% rate among blacks and 78.8% rate among Latinos.

Some Asian American adults are more likely to be overweight than others. For instance, 43% of men have a BMI over 25, compared with 34.7% of women. In addition, the prevalence of overweight adults is nearly 1.5 times higher among adults who are at least 40 years old than it is among those between the ages of 20 and 39, the data show.

The figures are based on physical measurements of Asian American volunteers who participated in the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2011 and 2012. During those years, researchers recruited extra Asian Americans for the long-running study in order to bolster the “scarcity of health information” about this minority group, according to the new report, released Wednesday.

The researchers, from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, also report that 10.3% of Asian Americans have high total cholesterol, with at least 240 milligrams per deciliter of blood. That is “similar” to other American adults, according to the study. The 14.3% who have low levels of HDL cholesterol (the “good” kind) is lower than the 21.8% prevalence among people the CDC classified as Hispanic.

In addition, the researchers say that 25.6% of Asian American adults qualify as having hypertension because their blood pressure is at least 140/90 millimeters mercury or because they are taking blood pressure medications. That’s about the same as the prevalence for whites and Latinos, but lower than the 42.1% incidence among non-Hispanic African Americans.

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-asian-americans-health-data-20140114,0,6962801.story#axzz2qVZ46Z7r

 

Edited January 15, 2014 by GuangDongExpat (see edit history)

[Dennis143]

Yes, it's no secret why many of us are attracted to Asian female body.

 

Interestingly though, I have numerous Chinese female friends who have developed diabetes since living here. With the change in lifestyle of not walking and continuing to eat diets high in rice and noodles have had detrimental consequences on my friends. It's been quite an awakening for them to learn that their staple diets of high carbohydrates isn't so good for them especially when they've always believed and thought that us Americans are fat because we eat too much meat.

[warpedbored]

I think most of our wives put on a few extra pounds after they've been here a while. Mine put on 10-15 pounds. She's still a lot thinner than most American women her age.

[Mick]

When Li and I met she weighed all of 96 pounds. She put on some weight with her pregnancy, but lost most of it. I think she is about ten to twelve pounds heavier now than she was when we met.