Comment on Anon travels overseas

• 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.

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  • Brosplosion@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • 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

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      • 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.

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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