On Wednesday, a new study published in JAMA by researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle projected that by 2035, nearly half of all American adults, about 126 million individuals, will be living with obesity.
The study draws on data from more than 11 million participants via the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and from the independent Gallup Daily Survey.
The projections show a striking increase in the prevalence of obesity over the past few decades in the U.S. In 1990, only 19.3% of U.S. adults were obese, according to the study. That figure more than doubled to 42.5% by 2022, and is forecast to reach 46.9% by 2035.
It’d be cool if they stopped lacing all the food with high fructose corn syrup.
America measures obesity very differently to the rest of the world, way past the 50% mark for the rest of the worlds medical measurements.
Are we just using bmi because I have this friend who is a refrigerator. Short, stocky, all muscle. Bmi is something like morbid obesity back when they used the term. She had no fat weight to lose, she needed to gain fat. Or height I guess. Best clown and drummer I ever worked with.
that isn’t the majority of people
i’m talking about my drummer friend not most people
Incorrect. Fat shot drug is available as fat pill drug. They have or are working on children’s version. We will eat nothing and be happy. Also alcoholism will sharply decline
doesn’t work unless you stay on the drugs for life.
people on GPL drugs who stop using them gain 70% of the weight back within six months.
the issue is lifestyle. americans eat too much and don’t exercise enough. GPL drugs just make it so they eat less, but they still eat the same crap they did before so 2000 calories of hamburgers and fries (the small instead of the large). so once they go off the drug they go right back to eating 4000 calories a day.
the issue is that you shouldn’t be eating hamburgers and fries regularly, no matter the portion. a lot americans eat a daily diet that is suppose to be sometimes foods. everyday foods should be bland and in smaller portions. asian and european diets are way more full of basic grains, veg, and lean meats.
american food system is loaded with junk that makes you want to eat more of it. lots of processed crap, fatty meats, and added sugar/fat to everything.
If you doubt BMI (like many of the replies I got to my other comment), you can probably ignore this study:
Design, Setting, and Participants Analysis of measured body mass index data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and bias-corrected body mass index values calculated from self-reported height and weight data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Gallup Daily Survey using spatiotemporal gaussian process regression and an ensemble of annualized rate of change and meta-regression bayesian spline models. Surveys for input data were conducted using population-based sampling by state and by race and ethnicity group with a total of 11 315 421 US participants.
Main Outcomes and Measures Obesity prevalence (BMI ≥30).
So, one reason I’m concerned about my BMI (39.5 kg/m2) is because I’m making my country look bad. Tho, with Trump at the helm, my contributions to that effort are overshadowed.
And the demographics cargo train is already on its way for another victim
How do you think this is going to work when that obese population gets a little older and the next generation is going to somehow have to take care of all those people that can barely work anymore?
The demographics train is slow but when it hits, it’s a motherfucker that will shred you to pieces. China and Russia too will understand this real soon
All of the farms are going bankrupt and the people who work the farms are being kidnapped and possibly mass murdered so I don’t know seems like anything could happen. In a famine they might actually be better off
Obesity cutoff-wise, a famine won’t register on a national scale until a year or so down the line
Don’t worry, your president will just declare himself president of another country and take all their produce for you.
The solution to losing weight is to only eat 1 meal a day, preferably at the end.
If your meal starts with mc and ends with donalds, that’s pointless
Will never happen before they change the definition of what medically obese is.
It’s been changed twice.
to what?
the average american consumes 3500-4000 calories… per day.
a person of healthy weight typically burns 1800-2600 calories a day.
we weight almost TWICE what we need. a lot of Americans could lose weight by simple dropping calorie consumption to 2500. but they don’t because food tastes good. especially fatty sugary food that has 2x your caloric need.
many americans are eating their entire daily caloric needs in a single meal. then eating 2-3 more meals on top of that.
Can’t you just add Ozempik to drinking water? Or even better to diet Coke.
We have an extremely fucked food supply.
Don’t worry, just slather some beef tallow on your skin, have an undercooked burger, and enjoy reaping the instant health benefits.
I mean…those undercooked burgers do have a good chance of helping you lose weight…
Fuck yea, MAHA high five! 🙏
Not if we can’t afford groceries anymore.
The cheapest foods are the worst for you, unfortunately.
Unless they are grains and legumes.
Yeah I can eat pretty cheap with healthy food. Meat is the expensive part.
I only buy meat when it’s on sale and freeze what I don’t eat that day. But the prices are still crazy
I found a bunch of turkeys on sale at a particular store that often has them and got like 13 of them for the winter here still have like eight left.
We’re already eating other metaphorically, we can just start doing it literally too
“Living with obesity” is a funny way of putting it. I’m living with 3 cats and obesity.
Wasn’t she a stripper?
🔥🔥🔥
We named the skinny one: Obesity. It made a bit more sense when he was younger.
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Low quality, high carb food is profitable. Our western diet is built around a carb diet. While approximately half the population does fairly well, weight wise, the other half does not because their bodies preferentially store carb calories as fat. That said I struggled with my weight although I was very active. Due to health issues I switched to a low carb diet more like the one I grew up with - mostly protein, high fat ( good fats like fatty fish, nuts, butter, olive oil and coconut oil), and reasonable amounts of complex carbohydrates. Weigh came off without exercise or any other effort. BTW, the calories in, the calories out approach is just plain wrong. Carbs MAKE you hungry.
You only have one shot at this life so why would you burden yourself lugging around 50 pounds, 100 pounds or more everywhere you go.By what criteria are you classifying coconut oil as a good fat? The way I understand it fats going from worst to best go something like trans fat, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, omega 3. Coconut oil is nearly 100% saturated fat, moreso than butter which is around 80%. So if coconut oil is good then so is butter.
I will say it’s somewhat marginal on the health benefits of unsaturated vs saturated though, so I will continue to use coconut oil but not sure it’s any better than other fats.
Your understanding is the one I was taught throughout university but there is a competing vision where saturated fats aren’t bad. The people who talk about the evils of seed oils tend to believe this. I haven’t looked into it in a few years but there are lots of internet doctors/health influencers who can walk you through the reasoning if you are interested. I didn’t find the arguments too compelling but I’ve also been bored of extreme diets for a bit so I may be biased.
Then there are those of us who embrace saturated fats (in moderation) and seed oils.
wow. stop with this crazy talk.
next thing you know you’ll tell me that eating a boring balanced diet that doesn’t exceed my caloric needs is how i maintain a healthy weight. because clearly that can’t be it… it has to be a secret nutritional key to unlocking weight loss.
Any evidence of Health harms from seed oils are going to be from the chemicals used in the production of those plants, not from the oils of those seeds themselves. Just throwing that out there because the cynical motherfuckers in maha will not.
the marketing criteria that convinces them to pay a lot more for it than other oils.
hence why they also are going on about calories not being a thing, and basically telling people to go by the most expensive foods as a means to lose weight.
a lot of ‘experts’ on nutrition are just welathy dumbasses who believe marketing slop and are under the guise that if they pay 20/lb for salmon it’s ‘better’ than chicken that’s 5/lb
half the population does well weight wise is the rich part that buys better quality food, goes to the doctor regularly, and exercises.
Oh weird? Wasn’t there a huge headline recently that obesity rates had declined slightly for the first time in history?
Maybe that was due to the die-off from COVID.
