“overweight” is a serperate medical category to “obese”
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day agoUmmdustry@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Ok, but just like BMI, those categories include neither muscle nor bone mass.
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
That matters in the individual case, but not in the aggregate, unless we’ve any reason to assume americans have particularly dense BONES
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
I mean general guidence for parents was to force feed your child a gallon of milk every morning until like 2015 so they would grow up to have denser bones. If it worked, idk.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 18 hours ago
10-40% (and rising) of the population being obese is indeed a crisis.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 22 hours 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 21 hours ago
It’s cut off, that’s American Samoa which has a very large large population