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The urban areas in 2010 had significantly higher obesity rates than even the rural areas in 1990. So regardless of what people are yapping about, it's not work

• shagmin 7y ago
  ...or is working, but at too small a scale to overcome general nationwide trends.
  • jessriedel 7y ago
    I mean, even if we attribute 100% of the urban-rural difference to yuppy diet fads -- neglecting the almost-certainly much more important class, income, genetic, and cultural differences -- the effect of those fads are being absolutely crushed by the general nationwide trends. Whatever it is that us urban people get out of talking about diet fad that people in the rural areas don't keep up with, I don't think it's motivated by a desire to understand the obesity epidemic.
• trophycase 7y ago
  Idk, where I live in the city I find these trends pretty shocking. Mind you 2010 is 10 years ago, but just from looking at the people around me I'd expect this to have leveled off or reduced.
  • graeme 7y ago
    It’s also possible you’re simply used to a certain level of adiposity without realizing it. Almost everyone over 30 has some level of gut now, even those considered comparatively fit and thin. This wasn’t normal decades ago, but is normal now. How often do you see people shirtless? Clothes hide a lot of bellies. Having muscles, being a jogger, eating salads or riding s bicycle is completely consistent with abdominal fat. So, what standard are you using when you say urban people now are likely thinner than rural people in 1990?