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~75% of adults in the US are overweight. ~20% have a sleep disorder.

• TacticalCoder 3y ago
  So are ~53% of adults in the EU. And there are more obese kids than before in the EU too: knowing that there's an insane statistic saying something like 93% of obese kids shall stay obese their entire life, that 53% in the EU is only ever gonna go up (unless there's serious food shortage due to a war or climate event).
  • coldtea 3y ago
    >knowing that there's an insane statistic saying something like 93% of obese kids shall stay obese their entire life How is that statistic insane? People rarely shed weight just like that, when they do it takes concentrated effort and persistence. And even if you do, it's dead easy to get it back on in like a few months...
• coldtea 3y ago
  That's because modern life goes against our evolutionary instict. They weren't developed for when a several trillion dollar industry is hell-bent on selling addictive, over-processed, sodium, sugar, corn syrup etc fulled food-stuff crap, and showings as 100s of ads throughout a signle day. Not for spending our whole days in chairs, staring at a screen, and then relaxing by staring at more screens. A much much smaller percentage share of adults in the US were overweight before the 80s and 70s. I'd venture a guess a much smaller share had a sleep disorder before TV, long car commutes, and artificial lights too.
• pc86 3y ago
  What point are you trying to make?
• xboxnolifes 3y ago
  I wonder what the numbers would look like if nobody had to work. That's the comparison.