And does have an obesity problem!
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DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anon needs to learn that the UK isn’t representative of all of Europe
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anon needs to learn that the UK isn’t representative of all of Europe
And does have an obesity problem!
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Damage@feddit.it 1 month 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.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Hm?
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Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
“overweight” is a serperate medical category to “obese”
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Ok, but just like BMI, those categories include neither muscle nor bone mass.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 month 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.
Brosplosion@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It’s cut off, that’s American Samoa which has a very large large population
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
10-40% (and rising) of the population being obese is indeed a crisis.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Where do you have those numbers from? I’d like to look up my country.