The BMI percentiles over time chart is presumably meant to be shocking, but also shocking to me is how far back it goes being so high. The median [edit: 50yo] A

The BMI percentiles over time chart is presumably meant to be shocking, but also shocking to me is how far back it goes being so high. The median [edit: 50yo] American would be obese in the UK as far back as [50yos' births in] 1920; I know it's a stereotype but I didn't realise it was that accurate (or as accurate as even that I mean). (Edit softens it a little, but still. It's on track to break US's own BMI obese line at 30 before long, I think it's sometimes called an epidemic and rightfully so in that sense? If the median person in a country has a problematic characteristic that's crazy isn't it, should be a bigger deal?)