I'm always really skeptical of claims about obesity for more than one person. Obesity is defined in terms of BMI, which is severely limited as a metric for heal

I'm always really skeptical of claims about obesity for more than one person. Obesity is defined in terms of BMI, which is severely limited as a metric for health. An individual with more muscle mass and higher bone density is healthier than the alternative, but their BMI will be higher. Not all body mass is bad. This tends to confirm my own anecdata, which is that I'm not surrounded by overfat people after all. I do see morbid cases from time to time and in certain population centers. A mostly healthy population with a small number of extremely overfat cases is going to appear to have bad BMI stats on the whole.