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Summary

A new Lancet study reveals nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, a sharp rise from just over half in 1990.

Obesity among adults doubled to over 40%, while rates among girls and women aged 15–24 nearly tripled to 29%.

The study highlights significant health risks, including diabetes, heart disease, and shortened life expectancy, alongside projected medical costs of up to $9.1 trillion over the next decade.

Experts stress obesity’s complex causes—genetic, environmental, and social—and call for structural reforms like food subsidies, taxes on sugary drinks, and expanded treatment access.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

Every time I visit Germany, I eat and drink a ton. I'll lose about 5 lbs that week just from the higher quality food and walking convenience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I mean, yes, but also I have issues with BMI.

But also yes, look at old films or photos of crowds. North Americans are a heavy people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Social/environmental - life is fucking terrible and I have to take anxiety meds to survive it without panicking and breaking down. My last meds made me hungry CONSTANTLY. Sadly, I didn't know it was the meds until about 3 months ago. New med calms the anxiety and doesn't make me starving all the time.

I am not built for modern society.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

When I bring my rice and veggy curry to lunch I become a spectacle for everyone. Because they are all either ordering fast food, not eating, or just eating junk and snack food. This is a huge problem, why am I spectacle for doing something so basic?

There are actually microaggressions from people to me just because I eat healthy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago) (2 children)

Some previous coworkers I had were blown away by a pear that I brought as part of my lunch. A pear!!!

edit: duh, not pair

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I can't tell if you're kidding, but the homonym you're looking for is pear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I was really confused for a second thinking, "a pair of what" then I realized you meant pear!! Lol. English is fun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

People hate being reminded that the conveniences they enjoy are unhealthy/unethical/etc. All it takes is somebody else choosing differently to trigger defensiveness and denialism. Rather than making changes to their own life they choose to ridicule those who are making better decisions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Business school calls it Escalation of Commitment.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Already have :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yes that's how statistics work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Well 69 is actually closer to 2/3 anyway

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao yeah I’m not sure what the commenter is implying? The question we should be asking is if the polled population is representative of the general population.

Do they expect the study to poll the entire US population?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m positive the Lancet will manage to produce a representative sample and sample size sufficient to ensure this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Ok so I looked in to their sources and boy, you're under selling it.

They used 130+ sources of 10's of thousands of surveyed people, each. Typical sample sizes were 70,000+.

This is a meta analysis. The number of people contributing to this analysis is wide enough to put to rest any doubt that it's a representative sample ten times over.

Arrogantly appending "polled" to those figures is like proudly proclaiming that teen pregnancies drop off sharply after age 19.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, thank you. I was seeing 3/4 (75%) and 40% and was very confused lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Overweight and obese are two different categories. 40% are obese. Nearly 75% are overweight or obese.

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