Adult Obesity Facts

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Post by aww_dang » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 4:18 PM UTC

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Post by rjbwork » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 4:33 PM UTC

We've designed our cities, suburbs, food industry, and society such that the average person is at least overweight, nearing obese.

If the average person suffers from what should be an anomaly, perhaps it is less a personal failing than a societal failing and we should try to fix the societal problems generating the poor outcome.

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Post by yehudalouis » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 4:33 PM UTC

Nitpicking is pointless here, but the phrasing was immediately confusing to me.

"US Adults are 42.4% obese" leads me to believe that all US adults are 42.4% of the way to becoming obese, where as in actuality it appears that 42.4% of US adults are obese.

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Post by newaccount2021 » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 4:33 PM UTC

Why won't the CDC talk honestly about the connection between covid deaths and obesity?

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Post by asciimov » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 4:33 PM UTC

We need to outlaw sugar and restrict simple carbs in made to order foods.

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

rjbwork wrote: post #2

We've designed our cities, suburbs, food industry, and society such that the average person is at least overweight, nearing obese. If the average person suffers from what should be an anomaly, perhaps it is less a personal failing than a societal failing and we should try to fix the societal problems generating the poor outcome.

> we should try to fix the societal problems generating the poor outcome

What would this look like policywise?

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Post by echelon » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

We need to stop putting sugar in everything. That's the root cause of most of our problems.

It's not just industrialized preprocessed and prepackaged food, because restaurants are guilty of this too.

I don't buy the "cars and suburbs" as a root cause argument. People would be less sedentary if they felt healthier and more energetic.

Sugar is the problem.

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Post by sharkmerry » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

Is this solely done based on BMI? Some of you may know that BMI can be wildly inaccurate. (this guy is technically obese on BMI scale - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=153207891)

I wonder if we would find better connections between disease and "weight" with body fat % or similar measure.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

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Post by maerF0x0 » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 4:35 PM UTC

> Non-Hispanic Black adults (49.6%) had the highest age-adjusted prevalence of obesity, followed by Hispanic adults (44.8%), non-Hispanic White adults (42.2%) and non-Hispanic Asian adults (17.4%).

This made me say "whoa!" How are asian adults so much lower probable obese?

Also can we please have a COVID-19 sized response to this issue? > was $147 billion in 2008.

And I've heard elsewhere the _economic_ impact is even greater in the long tail of small but numerous costs of obesity. For example the fuel cost on a flight is greater, or premature mortality meaning that education investment has a lower ROI.