A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling.
Key Takeaways
- Recent data shows a slight decline in US obesity rates, but experts caution it’s too early to declare a turning point in the obesity epidemic.
- GLP-1 agonists show promise in combating obesity as trials demonstrate the drugs help people lose 10–20% of their body weight and reduce their risk of weight-related health problems.
- However, the high cost and limited insurance coverage of GLP-1 agonists present significant barriers to widespread adoption, and other preventative initiatives would need to be adopted to keep obesity trends declining.
I visited there last year. Holy shit you guys are fucking fat.
Nothing going on with inflation or the economy has stopped you guys from eating
You haven’t thought this comment through and it shows. Inflation raises the cost of healthy food and therefore healthy diet. Same with other economic factors. There’s whole avenues of study dedicated to this which is why so many other countries have banned certain food additives that are used in American food stuffs. Companies are literally poisoning Americans to make more profit and making the healthy stuff so expensive that the average consumer (lots of whom are already food insecure) can’t afford to buy healthy food so they buy what junk is available cheaply.
I understand that you meant that the poor economy doesn’t seem to have stopped us from stuffing ourselves but like I said, you didn’t think your comment through.
I see where youre going with that but oats and beans are still cheap. There’s other options besides wagyu steak and crown rib. People eat shit food because 4 million years of evolution taught us to eat shit food when it was available. The struggle involves cost but that’s too easy a scapegoat. Lentils, beans, rice, potatoes, salad greens, etc… all cheap. Dont be a fat apologist.
Dont forget, inflation is happening in Japan too. But they haven’t gone jumbo because they tend to eat healthier.
I visited there last year
Dude, don’t tell us how food availability works and is affected by socioeconomic strata in our own country when you don’t live here and clearly aren’t a specialist on the topic. If you want to actually learn something about the dynamic, look up “food deserts”.
Forget it dude. We Americans will bend over backwards to tell you we can’t help being fat.
What I’ve noticed since the 80s is that the level of obesity considered “acceptable” in society has gone up dramatically. “I’m not that fat! Look at the guy over there!” Rinse and repeat.
I can go to Walmart, right now, and see people we would have gawked at in the 80s, even 90s. Not like we wished to be rude, seeing people that huge would have caught us off guard.
Fatty, fatty 2X4, can’t fit through the kitchen door…
That and a similar gems used to be chanted at the big kids when I was young and being big was an abnormal state.
I’ve mentioned before to my kids that it almost seems antiquated that a ‘quarter pounder’ used to be the big burger.
I’m 6’3" and float around in the 230-240 space and try to stay no bigger than that. Back when the Simpsons first started that was considered comically obese. Now it’s just ‘dad bod’.
So much of it is an overcorrection in the name of not hurting the feelings of fat people to the point where now not only have we stopped outwardly shaming them but we’ve started taking big/curvy as being natural and all-american.
So did one of my daughters. It may not have been helpful in itself but think of t as a reflection of the prevailing attitudes. That being overweight is unhealthy and should be remedied. People go to great lengths today to justify and even glamorize being obese and it’s frustrating as can be.
I think the problem is that so much of our self-worth is wrapped up in being physically attractive. People want to feel desirable, and feeling ugly or unwanted is a killer on your self esteem. It also disproportionately affects women, as a man’s value isn’t necessarily tied to his physical beauty.
If we treated obesity as a health problem, and not a beauty defect, then it would be like heart disease or eyesight. You have a daughter, so you’re probably old enough to remember when wearing glasses was considered ugly and unattractive. People would rather walk around unable to see than put on their spectacles, and contact lenses became a must-have fashion accessory.
If not for the shared social trauma of fat-shaming, there would be no need for the overcorrection. People come in all shapes and sizes, and health is a relative term. Helping people get healthy is an act of medical care, not social control. It should be treated like any other condition, without judgement or stigma.
We have in no way begun to peak
I dunno. I think if I really put my mind to it and gave it my all. I could be fatter.
Make them lose weight by raising food prices lol
Talking about the price of eggs like these motherfuckers should be eating all these eggs
The high cost of food is one of the causes of the obesity epidemic. Fresh food is expensive, and cheap food is full of sugar and salt because they are preservatives. Food processing and mass production creates cheap, unhealthy, addictive food.
We kinda do the opposite already, via subsidies https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7690710/
