Silver lining, overweight is trending down!
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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Silver lining
Is it though?
Whoosh!!!!
We are at the lowest level of overweightness on record.
You know, we really need more highway lanes and more cars, we should really get everyone engaged with technology, consumers can decide for themselves if cheap and readily available heavily processes sugary, fatty, salty foods are what they prefer to eat.
Huh, why is everyone so fat?
Source? This graph seems made up as fuck.
In reality "only" around 41.9% of US citizens are considired obese. That is stillbhuge and rising.
Source: CDC
Title : National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017–March 2020 Prepandemic Data Files Development of Files and Prevalence Estimates for Selected Health Outcomes
Personal Author(s) : Stierman, Bryan;Afful, Joseph;Carroll, Margaret D.;Chen, Te-Ching;Davy, Orlando;Fink, Steven;Fryar, Cheryl D.;Gu, Qiuping;Hales, Craig M.;Hughes, Jeffery P.;Ostchega, Yechiam;Storandt, Renee J.;Akinbami, Lara J.;
Corporate Authors(s) : National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
Published Date : 06/14/2021
Series : NHSR No. 158
Source : National Health Statistics Reports
Yeah, that's what the chart says, and about 40% are oveweight
Yea except it makes no menrion of the moebidly obese numbers.
It does, it just calls it extreme instead of morbid.
So, just to be clear, if I'm following correctly: the chart is incorrect. The error in the chart is that it ignores that obese people are also overweight, and "extreme obese" people are also both obese and overweight.
So rather than show the obese people as a subset of overweight, and extreme obese as a subset of obese, the chart is adding the percentages together to falsely represent each designation cumulatively.
Also only goes to ~2015
This graph is objectively incorrect which does a disservice to the real problem it's intended to address. This is misinformation.
I want both of you to elaborate. I don't think anyone is denying obesity rates are doing up, but the graph doesn't seem like a good way to show this? It doesn't even include healthy weight people.
Aren’t healthy weight people the white space above the line?
Scale goes from 0 to 100% so yes I'd say you're correct, minus maybe anorexic people.
That's also me but only because I like fat chicks
Huh. TIL the vast majority of Americans are unhealthy as fuck.
It's actually kinda absurd that this is 80% of people. That's a ridiculous statistic.
Ridiculous as in untrue or ridiculous that we as american's have let our society get here?
Untrue. BMI is a 200 year-old linear algorithm invented by a drug salesman.
BMI is a useful health indicator on average. Sometimes there are exceptions, but in most cases, epidemiology evidence demonstrates it is a predictor for lots of bad shit.
That yellow/orange line is calling me out personally.