On Wednesday, a new study published in JAMA by researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle projected that by 2035, nearly half of all American adults, about 126 million individuals, will be living with obesity.

The study draws on data from more than 11 million participants via the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and from the independent Gallup Daily Survey.

The projections show a striking increase in the prevalence of obesity over the past few decades in the U.S. In 1990, only 19.3% of U.S. adults were obese, according to the study. That figure more than doubled to 42.5% by 2022, and is forecast to reach 46.9% by 2035.

  • danc4498@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “Living with obesity” is a funny way of putting it. I’m living with 3 cats and obesity.

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    2 months ago

    Oh weird? Wasn’t there a huge headline recently that obesity rates had declined slightly for the first time in history?

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    1 month ago

    Are we just using bmi because I have this friend who is a refrigerator. Short, stocky, all muscle. Bmi is something like morbid obesity back when they used the term. She had no fat weight to lose, she needed to gain fat. Or height I guess. Best clown and drummer I ever worked with.

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    1 month ago

    All of the farms are going bankrupt and the people who work the farms are being kidnapped and possibly mass murdered so I don’t know seems like anything could happen. In a famine they might actually be better off

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      1 month ago

      Don’t worry, your president will just declare himself president of another country and take all their produce for you.

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      1 month ago

      to what?

      the average american consumes 3500-4000 calories… per day.

      a person of healthy weight typically burns 1800-2600 calories a day.

      we weight almost TWICE what we need. a lot of Americans could lose weight by simple dropping calorie consumption to 2500. but they don’t because food tastes good. especially fatty sugary food that has 2x your caloric need.

      many americans are eating their entire daily caloric needs in a single meal. then eating 2-3 more meals on top of that.