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.
Not if we can’t afford groceries anymore.
The cheapest foods are the worst for you, unfortunately.
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?
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We named the skinny one: Obesity. It made a bit more sense when he was younger.
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And that’s after US MDs successfully petitioned to re define the threshold of obesity and morbid obesity.
They did that in the early 2000s too. Tens of millions of people became obese over night and we suddenly had an obesity epidemic.
uh no, they keep making the bar higher. America has an obesity epidemic because it’s fat. Most Americans don’t leave the country, but you don’t see fat sloppy people in European urban centres.
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.
I’m doing my part!
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
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
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.
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.
Since they refuse to stop eating so much
Put the ozempic in the water
This might be the least informed comment I have ever seen online.
Obesity in the US has far more to do with food quality and food availability than quantity consumed.
The one chemical Alex Jones doesn’t object to the government putting in the water. I’m sure he already puts it in his
