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>According to this 73.6% of adults over 20 in the US are classified as overweight or obese My God. I did not think it was that high. I had thought “ehh 50%”
by remarkEon 4y ago
>According to this 73.6% of adults over 20 in the US are classified as overweight or obese
My God.
I did not think it was that high.
I had thought “ehh 50%” based simply on who I see walking around at Costco, and you’re right shame on me for not looking up the relevant statistics to fact check CNBC. That’s a legit public health catastrophe. We’re slow walking into a health case disaster if this doesn’t change.
- p1necone 4y agoTo be fair I think the threshold for 'overweight' is pretty low (and based on BMI which isn't a super great measure at least on an individual level), but yes it's definitely a problem.
- remarkEon 4y agoYeah BMI is a very crude metric. Half the guys I was in the Army with would be “overweight” if you only used BMI (these guys were not overweight, they were yoked).