Comment on Anon travels overseas

DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Europe does have an obesity crisis, with nearly half of adults overweight. The UK is bad but not alone and not the highest.

  But even then things are still not as bad as the USA. The obesity rate is about 23% in Europe compared to 36% in the US. Russia has an obesity rate of 30% skewing the European rate. For comparison other high European countries are Finland at about 29%, Malta at 29%, Croatia at 23%, UK at 20%, Germany at 19%. Lower rates are seen in Italy at 10% and Romania at 11%, but even those rates are not great - 1 in 10 people are obese and more are overweight.

  So OP is right except the US is worse. Over a third of people are obese and many more are overweight.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’ve also got to consider that “obesity” is a single threshold. I’ve been to the US many times and there are WAY more morbidly obese people in the US, and some who are so fucking huge they would definitely turn heads in the EU.

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  • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    also nearly half of adults overweight

    One thing worth pointing out is that the “overweight” category (BMI between 25 and 30) actually has lower all cause mortality than the “normal” category (BMI between 20 and 25:

    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37405977/#gid=article-fig…

    I think that suggests that being merely “overweight” probably isn’t a significant health problem.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Europe does have an obesity crisis, and also nearly half of adults overweight.

    Hm?

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    • Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “overweight” is a serperate medical category to “obese”

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ok, but just like BMI, those categories include neither muscle nor bone mass.

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    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wtf are these numbers?! US is generally reported with just shy of 40% obesity rate, not 75%. And I cannot find ANY numbers for obesity on the WHO website for the US.

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      • Brosplosion@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s cut off, that’s American Samoa which has a very large large population

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      10-40% (and rising) of the population being obese is indeed a crisis.

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Where do you have those numbers from? I’d like to look up my country.

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• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And does have an obesity problem!

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