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Your friend circle in Germany probably doesn't have many members who were a proud big boned 5"7' 300lbs (~140kg).
by blitzar 9mo ago
Your friend circle in Germany probably doesn't have many members who were a proud big boned 5"7' 300lbs (~140kg).
- wongarsu 9mo agoFor good reason. That'd be a BMI of 47. There isn't a lot of statistical data for such high BMIs, but [1] lists prevalence of BMI>40. In Germany 1.2% of men and 2.8% of women had a BMI over 40 in 2011, in the US it was 5.6% and 9.7% respectively in 2016. That's nearly four times as many as in Germany. 1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7078951/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7078951/
- tom_ 9mo agoThe US population (~350m) is about 4 times that of Germany (~85m)...
- wongarsu 9mo agoWhich has to be a pure coincidence, since the reported numbers are relative to population size. We could conclude that there are 4x4=16 times as many people with such high BMIs in the US, but that is not that useful
- blitzar 9mo agoSeveral studies conducted during the last 50 years have shown that lower intelligence is associated with a higher body mass index.
- rootusrootus 9mo agoSo this is why SE Asia is kicking the crap out of the US and Europe?
- rootusrootus 9mo ago> In Germany 1.2% of men and 2.8% of women had a BMI over 40 in 2011 How does that compare to, say, Japan? Why is Germany so much fatter?
- danielscrubs 9mo agoWorse food and less fat shaming.
- cthalupa 9mo agoBut prior to GLP-1s, obesity rates were growing rapidly in Germany. Doubled over 3 decades - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1570677X23000175 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15706... Most of the industrialized west is following very similar growth curves here to the US. America just got their first. Even Asia isn't immune - Korea has been following similar trends, as have parts of southeast asia, etc. I suspect the prevalence of GLP-1 class drugs will halt this trend before the rest of the world catches up, but without them or similar drugs, I would have bet that 50 years form now much of the rest of the world would look just like America
- Esophagus4 9mo agoIn my (obviously anecdotal) experience, that’s not who the primary GLP1 user is. It’s the suburban mom (or dad sometimes) who wants help losing a little weight. Instead of being 300lbs like your example, she’s 160lbs and wants to be 140lbs.
- elictronic 9mo ago6’1” 230 wanting 210 without having a third bike injury for it. 40 doesn’t heal like 20, turn your head wrong and you are in pain for a month. It sucks.
- Esophagus4 9mo agoI hear ya. Someone once told me there are 2 things no one can ever prepare you for: having kids and getting older. I do want to get back into biking though. Haven’t ridden in a long time.
- HDThoreaun 9mo agoI really feel like this is just about the circle you are in. How many 300lb people do you know? 16% of the country is on GLP-1's as of mid 2024, Im sure its higher now. Every single massively overweight person I know has at least tried GLP-1s
- Esophagus4 9mo agoYeah that could be - I don’t know many 300lb people well enough to talk about that.
- cthalupa 9mo agoThe morbidly obese people I know fall into two camps: Those that still want to reduce their weight: All of them are on GLP-1s now (and losing weight!) Those that had totally given up: They had long since stopped attempting anything to reduce their weight I suspect that the larger you are, the more likely you are to fall into that second category - getting to 300+ lb involves a certain level of accepting defeat to begin with.