Half the world will be obese by 2035

[Dave Gray]

According to this article half of all of us will be overweight or obese.

Probably higher in the US

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/overwei...ration-report/

[LeeG]

Peak Fat!

[Jim Mahan]

Half will be, but it will seem like a lot more when it starts to tilt and wobble. Course if it were the bottom half it might be stabilizing.

[mizzenman]

We should mine the lard for energy. We would all look like models and burn less oil!

[CK 17]

It really is sad. The US has a head start on the world. You’d be hard pressed to glance any direction in any public space and NOT see a majority obese population. And an even closer look will probably show that even most of the people that are at a healthy weight are there because of all the wrong reasons—smokers, cancer, alcoholism, malnutrition. A very small number of individuals at a healthy weight are there by a deliberate effort through diet and exercise. So the picture is worse than it seems at first glance. Carry on with your lunch.

[SKIP KILPATRICK]

Bad timing for a thread about scones!

[SKIP KILPATRICK]

Good for you Fred!

i been working at it to 59 lbs since 6/1/2022!

[CK 17]

I’ve been trying to lose the last 15 pounds for 25 years.

[Nicholas Scheuer]

I do not agree. A great many Asians exist at healthy weights, yet only a relative few do so for unhealthy reasons. Yes, when I'm at Walmart I see obese people in all directions. Ironically, when I'm in a hospital I see WAY too many obese employees, many with king-size carbonated drinks on their desks. When I'mm at events such as the Rockford Symphony Orchestra it seems that MOST of the ticket holders are maintaining healthy weights. In other words, there seems to be a cultural element to obesity.

It really is sad. The US has a head start on the world. You’d be hard pressed to glance any direction in any public space and NOT see a majority obese population. And an even closer look will probably show that even most of the people that are at a healthy weight are there because of all the wrong reasons—smokers, cancer, alcoholism, malnutrition. A very small number of individuals at a healthy weight are there by a deliberate effort through diet and exercise. So the picture is worse than it seems at first glance. Carry on with your lunch.

[Ted Hoppe]

GMO - let's um grow!

[TerryLL]

My Sweetie is down 85 pounds to 135, I am trying to keep up. I've got 35 pounds to go to get to 165. Not easy, but doable.

[Rich Jones]

I'm a real yo-yo.
Down 20 lbs. and gain it back.
Done this about four times.
Time to try again.
200lbs. is too much. Trying to hit 180 and stay there.
That is the true challenge.

In my hospital work, I had to transport a woman from one floor to another since she was
going to be a long-term patient. She weighted about 400 lbs. It took two nurses to help her out of bed and into the wheelchair. It took everything I had to get that wheelchair moving. The trip took about ten minutes and she was sucking on an oxygen bottle the whole way until they got her hooked up to oxygen in her new room.
She was only about 50 years old.
How did she get this way and how much longer will she live?
I've seen this numerous times since I started there a year ago.

[LeeG]

which half?

[Keith Wilson]

Well, it's a real problem, but better that than starving.

We evolved in conditions where food was generally scarce, occasionally very abundant, so it was advantageous to eat it all. That doesn't work so well when we're surrounded by gummy bears.

[skuthorp]

I'm the same weight I was at 18-29, 154lbs.

Genes, a lifetime habit of not having lunch, a dislike of sugary drinks, activity and probably luck.
Dad was skinny, mum was never overweight, and a brother inherited what fat genes there were on mum's side.

[TerryLL]

We evolved in conditions where food was generally scarce, occasionally very abundant, so it was advantageous to eat it all.

Almost right.
We evolved in a world where meals were infrequent, but the meals we did get were highly nutritious meat and organs. We ate it all, nose to tail, and thrived.

Agriculture cut big inroads into the nutritional value of the food we ate, and modern BIG AG has ruined our bodies in multiple ways with the crap they call food. BIG PHARMA is very happy with BIG AG, because they get to provide all those wonderful meds for the dietary diseases that BIG AG has bestowed upon us.

[Ron Williamson]

Short term carbon sequestration.
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[Jim Mahan]

I don't like to eat the tail.

[Jim Bow]

I asked my doctor if I should try to lose 20 pounds he said not to worry. “Perfection is the enemy of Good Enough.”

[TerryLL]

I don't like to eat the tail.

I've eaten just about every part of a pig that can be eaten, nose, brain, trotters, and especially that curly little tail. It's all divine.

[WszystekPoTrochu]

Well, it's a real problem, but better that than starving

Industrialized farming is overusing land. Us fat now is outright wrong not only due to so many people still starving, but primarily due to how many future people we might starve

[elf]

Genetically we are not designed for the plenitude of modern life.

[LeeG]

Genetically we are not designed for the plenitude of modern life.

Then electric chairs arrived.

[LeeG]

I did the obese part.

[L.W. Baxter]

i'm half obese already

[Besserwisser]

I'm the same weight I was at 18-29, 154lbs.

Genes, a lifetime habit of not having lunch, a dislike of sugary drinks, activity and probably luck.

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[TerryLL]

Genetically we are not designed for the plenitude of modern life.

Almost right.
Genetically we are not designed for the plentitude of food-like products BIG AG is providing.

[Besserwisser]

Genetically we are not designed for the plentitude of food-like products BIG AG is providing.

Correct. My contemporary usage dictionary says gluttony is a genetic disorder.


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[TerryLL]

Correct. My contemporary usage dictionary says gluttony is a genetic disorder.


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Only in the sense that hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution has designed us genetically to eat meat, and thrive on the dense nutritional value of a meat diet.

Gluttony results when we subvert our genetics and consume a vast overabundance of carbohydrates, provided to us at low cost by BIG AG.

Obesity is not usually the result of gluttony, but only the result of eating the Standard American Diet. SAD, bigly.

[Keith Wilson]

Only in the sense that hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution has designed us genetically to eat meat, and thrive on the dense nutritional value of a meat diet.

Gluttony results when we subvert our genetics and consume a vast overabundance of carbohydrates, provided to us at low cost by BIG AG.

Nah. Hunter-gatherers in moderate climates eat meat when they can get it, but it's generally intermittent, not that reliable, and most of their calories come from gathered plants. Some of these, particularly fruit, are very abundant in season, and it made evolutionary sense to eat lots of it when it was available.

A worse diet through agriculture is by no means a modern thing, and has little to do with 'BIG AG'; early farmers were notably worse-nourished than the hunter-gatherers who lived near them, but had a much higher population per acre, and thus bigger armies.

[wizbang 13]

Yes it must be 50 years of beer and the pots that is why I’m the same size at 68 as 18 .

[JayInOz]

I'll be long dead by 2035 and will weigh considerably less than I do now

[George.]

Most people down here are obese. We have a hard time hiring fire rangers. We try to exclude anyone with diabetes or heart issues, for obvious reasons, but most of the candidates that present are overweight and have one of the above.

At the same time, "fat shaming" became a thing. So society has to watch this public health catastrophe without comment or prods in the right direction. Imagine if we had the concept of "smoker shaming". We'd still have people smoking in restaurants and planes.

[skuthorp]

Yes it must be 50 years of beer and the pots that is why I’m the same size at 68 as 18 .

Genetics……………

[WszystekPoTrochu]

We can't talk about the wave of obesity without mentioning supernatural stimuli.

Here's a lightweight intro to the topic: