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Scientists Confirm the World Now Has over 1B Obese People
- Valgrim 3y agoTangent; if there was a nuclear war and subsequent global famine, would the obesity epidemic turn out to be a blessing, allowing more people to survive the initial winter?
- tekla 3y agoNo, since they would be easy prey for the skinny cannibals
- realityloop 3y agoThat still means more skinny cannibals can survive though doesn’t it?
- flawn 3y agoThe question would be whether we'd be able to digest the fat of these obese people without the mechanisms of our bodies turning it into something usable.
- sydbarrett74 3y agoThat would be the ultimate keto diet!
- xenospn 3y agoIsn’t fat easily separated from muscle (for cooking purposes)
- KatyaV 3y agoSome fats which are bad for you are wrapped around internal organs. Subcutaneous fat is easy to separate though.
- jarbus 3y agoGod I love this website
- free_bip 3y agoThe extra fat supply might last you what, a couple months tops? Nuclear winter and famine would probably last years.
- choilive 3y agoHumans are now so prosperous that we are dying of having too much food. A fate our ancestors could have only dreamed of.
- vivekd 3y agoThat's one possible cause. It could also be that our diets have changed to make us more prone to obesity, perhaps people consume more processed foods than before. The article alludes to this when it says eating badly is a major cause of obesity. I don't think there is enough information quite yet to jump to the positive conclusion of greater abundance causing obesity.
- daseiner1 3y agoSort of splitting semantic hairs, no? Can’t become obese without eating at a caloric surplus, whether your diet is fresh veg or high fructose corn syrup.
- KatyaV 3y agoWhile consuming more than you burn will lead to weight gain regardless of what you eat, I think modern foods are more likely to cause this because of the addictiveness of their high sugar levels, and also the fact that each item contains a LOT of calories… it would be much harder to get fat binge-eating celery than it would be for Doritos.
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- xenospn 3y agoThis is fantastic for me - the fatter everyone else is, the more attractive I become by simply being not-fat and eating vegetables. Classic win-lose.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago"Some company hired me to stand next to you so you look better in comparison."
- BobaFloutist 3y agoObese isn't a term defined by some quantitative health break-point, or empirical health outcomes, it's an arbitrary threshold established by the guy that invented BMI at a conspicuously nice round number. The term is practically useless for anything more substantial than shame, scare-mongering, and the denial of health care, but insurance companies and the beauty, clothing, wellness, fitness, and dietary industry derive vast amounts of profit from its proliferation, and people to whom it doesn't apply derive some comfort and a sense of superiority from it, and so it remains in common use in spite of, rather than according to, best medical practices.
- opwieurposiu 3y ago"Honey, You are fat, lets go to the gym." vs. "Honey, You have an Obesity issue, lets go to the gym." The former resulted in yelling and crying. The latter got us to the gym, so I found "Obese" to be a useful word.
- xenospn 3y agoCan’t outrun a bad diet. Obesity starts and ends in the kitchen, not the gym.
- solresol 3y agoGeneral advice, true for most people. But for some people, the only way they reliably lose weight is through increased exercise.
- bartonfink 3y agoAnyone who says that hasn't tried hard enough. You can absolutely outrun your fork. You just have to run a lot further than you think. There are no fat people who run 50 miles a week.
- _visgean 3y agothat might destroy your knees though. Might be better to go with cycling.
- KatyaV 3y ago[flagged]