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.
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.
Not if we can’t afford groceries anymore.
The cheapest foods are the worst for you, unfortunately.
Unless they are grains and legumes.
We’re already eating other metaphorically, we can just start doing it literally too
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.
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.
“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.
I’m doing my part!
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
put the ozempic in the water
Be careful what you say, that could seriously harm junk food profits, you don’t want to get the McDonald mafia after you.
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.
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
The solution to losing weight is to only eat 1 meal a day, preferably at the end.
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.
Can’t you just add Ozempik to drinking water? Or even better to diet Coke.
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.
