Has the US reached “peak obesity”?
Has the US reached “peak obesity”?
A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling. Is this a turning point in the obesity epidemic or a temporary plateau?
A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling.
Key Takeaways
- Recent data shows a slight decline in US obesity rates, but experts caution it’s too early to declare a turning point in the obesity epidemic.
- GLP-1 agonists show promise in combating obesity as trials demonstrate the drugs help people lose 10–20% of their body weight and reduce their risk of weight-related health problems.
- However, the high cost and limited insurance coverage of GLP-1 agonists present significant barriers to widespread adoption, and other preventative initiatives would need to be adopted to keep obesity trends declining.
Make them lose weight by raising food prices lol
The high cost of food is one of the causes of the obesity epidemic. Fresh food is expensive, and cheap food is full of sugar and salt because they are preservatives. Food processing and mass production creates cheap, unhealthy, addictive food.
$500 for a box of cereal.
Talking about the price of eggs like these motherfuckers should be eating all these eggs
Diet eggs
We kinda do the opposite already, via subsidies https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7690710/
There's at least two ads an hour for low cost ozempic and other inhibitors, and enough Americans are lazy and somehow rich enough to take it that it lowers the obesity rate. This doesn't make anyone healthier.
no. line must go up
I visited there last year. Holy shit you guys are fucking fat.
Nothing going on with inflation or the economy has stopped you guys from eating
You haven't thought this comment through and it shows. Inflation raises the cost of healthy food and therefore healthy diet. Same with other economic factors. There's whole avenues of study dedicated to this which is why so many other countries have banned certain food additives that are used in American food stuffs. Companies are literally poisoning Americans to make more profit and making the healthy stuff so expensive that the average consumer (lots of whom are already food insecure) can't afford to buy healthy food so they buy what junk is available cheaply.
I understand that you meant that the poor economy doesn't seem to have stopped us from stuffing ourselves but like I said, you didn't think your comment through.
I see where youre going with that but oats and beans are still cheap. There’s other options besides wagyu steak and crown rib. People eat shit food because 4 million years of evolution taught us to eat shit food when it was available. The struggle involves cost but that’s too easy a scapegoat. Lentils, beans, rice, potatoes, salad greens, etc… all cheap. Dont be a fat apologist.
Dont forget, inflation is happening in Japan too. But they haven’t gone jumbo because they tend to eat healthier.
Inflation and economic woes are just a couple of the things we eat.
Ozempic/GLP-1and fast food being way more expensive than it used to be, even if you give them your location and contacts by installing their app, are probably major factors.
Oh I can get fatter
I dunno. I think if I really put my mind to it and gave it my all. I could be fatter.
We have in no way begun to peak
Fatty, fatty 2X4, can't fit through the kitchen door...
That and a similar gems used to be chanted at the big kids when I was young and being big was an abnormal state.
I've mentioned before to my kids that it almost seems antiquated that a 'quarter pounder' used to be the big burger.
I'm 6'3" and float around in the 230-240 space and try to stay no bigger than that. Back when the Simpsons first started that was considered comically obese. Now it's just 'dad bod'.
So much of it is an overcorrection in the name of not hurting the feelings of fat people to the point where now not only have we stopped outwardly shaming them but we've started taking big/curvy as being natural and all-american.
As a kid who grew up fat, the taunting didn't help at all.
Trumps degeneracy just took over so you can expect more McDonald’s advertisements from the White House
It will get worse