Current Events > Half of US population projected to be obese by 2030

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-12-18/nearly-half-of-us-adults-will-be-obese-by-2030

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fellas

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Yeah but our athletes are fitter and better conditioned than ever before. The scales balance out. It's nature

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I'll be dead by then

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Delicious

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the article is from 2019, so i wonder how much faster covid has accelerated the fattening. people staying in and not going out means less walking and stuff, more sedentary lifestyles sitting on the couch

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The new norm and the new standard of beauty will be fatness!! Yay!!

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Damn.
In my immediate family only my mom and I arent overweight. So 2/6


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At work today I looked around at one point to count how many fat people there were. Most of the people around me were obese. One man was so fat he was literally waddling.

What a waste of your youth.

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We don't take care of ourselves, our food is filled with unhealthy additives and hormones, and we have a minority of people who try to push that you can be healthy at ridiculous sizes.


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Its fine

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You mean we're not already?

welp if the other half that are not fat just kids then we're screwed.

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I'm rather sure 70% of US citizens are already obese

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Heart disease like cray.

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US is not even the fattest country in the world at this point. UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait are even fatter.

United States of Chonkiness.

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Well then. Figured we would have passed that number long ago.
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We did it reddit!

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fat american lurkers ITT:



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Perascamin posted...

I'm rather sure 70% of US citizens are already obese

That is for being overweight and/or obese.

obese is the next level.

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I'm the only one in my immediate family who isnt obese, I'm stick thin though.

Without the skinny Gene's I'd probably be fat lol.

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It's down to the garbage food.

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There's really not that many people at my work that are obese. I work in a tech field. Well okay, 2 people out of 6 in my team is obese. But overall not that much

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I thought US was on a downswing on the fat scale

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Arcanine2009 posted...

There's really not that many people at my work that are obese. I work in a tech field. Well okay, 2 people out of 6 in my team is obese. But overall not that much

One more and you've got the stat.


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I'll literally be in healthiest half of America and still unable to get laid, ridiculous. >_>
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Thats a lotta fat ppl having gross fat sex

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Turtlebread posted...

Thats a lotta fat ppl having gross fat sex

Still feels good

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projection was without the pandemic, DEC. 18, 2019 7:38 PM PT

we need the projection with the pandemic

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Never go full Wall-E

Ew.

Dating apps are already filled with fat chicks as it is.
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only half?

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Thank god a lot of healthy foods taste good and unhealthy foods taste like shit.

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Mr Hangman posted...

An article examining possible causes of the obesity epidemic, worth a read:

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/

Possible causes?

Bad diet and poor exercise. What else is there?

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so its gonna be like Wall-E then...

Turtlebread posted...

Thats a lotta fat ppl having gross fat sex

Reminds me of that George Carlin bit

"Do these people fuck?"

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Aeriis posted...

smh being physically healthy is the best thing ever and CICO isn't hard

The problem is that the food most people eat (read: prepared processed foods) are specifically engineered to be as addictive as possible, and as a result they're also extraordinarily unhealthy. Food like that is an addiction, and most people need to try hard to not let it take over their lives. I know if I buy a bag of chips (I'm talking a big bag) or a half dozen donuts they're gone within the day.

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Sayoria posted...

Thank god a lot of healthy foods taste good and unhealthy foods taste like shit.

Its the other way around which is why so many people are obese

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Feline_Heart posted...

Its the other way around which is why so many people are obese

Not completely. Accessibility is a massive player in this as well.

Fruits are absolutely delicious and a great replacement for sweets. Lots of veggies are fantastic too. One of the biggest issues out there is that things that are healthy cost a Hell of a lot more money than things that are not healthy. Buying a package of strawberries can be 4 dollars for a small carton. Fruits go bad so fast too, which makes them even less appealing to buy at a high price. Meanwhile, a package of oreos are cheaper, and can be stored a lot longer.

As a fan of artichokes, it blows my mind that some stores by me sell them at 4-5 dollars for ONE. These take me about 2-3 hours to cook, and I have them sit overnight, which on-top of the price, can be a pain in the ass to deal with.... but me? I am willing to go through it when I can get them cheap enough (Whole Foods sells thick ones for 3 bucks, so I go there) ..... meanwhile, McDonalds sells junky fries and hamburders for a fraction of the price, and already prepared.

A single bottle 2-liter bottle of soda could cost 1 dollar, while a single bottle of water can cost more than that. This one blows my mind.

Not saying people don't like junkfood, but if fruits and healthy food was actually cheaper, it would be amazingly easier for people to diet and get back on track. But we live in the worst country when it comes to food regulation and pricing.

Until this shitty country re-thinks the way we price food, we are going to continuously head down the path of decline. 'Richest country in the world' or not, our riches are distributed terribly and many people can't afford to eat healthy. I am constantly throwing away things like asparagus, broccoli, avocados and berries because things go bad so fast. It's completely understandable for people with low-wage jobs to not want to dish out prices on healthy food just to have to throw them away a few days later.

Yes, junk food tastes great, but I believe that if healthy food was easier to afford, people who have the will to be healthy would buy those items in place. I for one, would always, always take a fresh, ice-cold watermelon over anything in a box. Then again, I have an amazing paying job that allows me to buy these fruits and veggies and if they go bad, it's not much of a financial loss.

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Buying frozen fruits and vegetables avoids the spoilage problem (as well being somewhat cheaper than fresh produce)

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People go on and on about fat Americans as if there wasnt a show about 30 stone Brits on government assistance. Obesity is a huge problem throughout western society.

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Mr Hangman posted...

Well, if you had clicked, you'd have seen that industrial toxins are another possible cause. It's not to say that diet and exercise don't matter, but that some kind of pollutant is messing with people's bodies and tilting the scales so that more diet and exercise is needed to maintain a normal weight.

The two super weird facts that can't really be explained otherwise are that animals are apparently getting fatter as well and there's a strong correlation between obesity and altitude.

Yeah if you live at a higher altitude you live in rocky terrain and therefore do more incline walking

Really if someone walks 1 mile in the great plains where elevations are low versus someone doing a 1 mile through the rocky mountains in Colorado who the fuck do you think has a higher energy expenditure this shit isn't rocket science.

People are becoming fatter because more jobs than ever consist of sitting down in front of a computer, on a forklift, standing in one place to occasionally flip a part or push a button, etc.

Jobs are more centered around a mind numbing sedentary lifestyle than ever. Not only that, but in general, people are ALSO working longer hours than in the past and when you have people working 10 hours a day as the norm, the motivation and effort required to cook your own food at home is next to non existant when a person can just go through a fast food place or a convenience store and have something to eat 20x faster than if they do it themselves.

Seriously. If you want to have 3 high quality meals every single day with 2-3 good snacks throughout the day you can expect to spend at least 4 hours of your time every week JUST cooking. No one has time for it anymore. In relationships both people working is the norm because it's not affordable for one person to work anymore.

There's no one at home who has the time to cook high quality meals every single day. There just isn't. So people get into this vicious ass cycle of eating something at home that's not so bad health wise but then it's still all really stressful with all of life's demands so they have to cope with fast food, a convenience store, vending machine, etc just to survive.

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