That is one seventh of the world s population. I bet the UK and the US double that number to a third or more.
Edit, checked, In 2021, 26% of adults in England were obese. · A higher proportion of men than women were either overweight or obese (69% compared with 59%). 42% of adult Americans are obese. So there or thereabouts, writes the bloke who just had 3 chocolate doughnuts for breakfast.
I’m two of them.
I think it’s really hard today to not be overweight obese. Being fit is almost a privilege. It requires time to cook healthy at home or money to buy alternative food instead of cooking. It also requires a lifestyle where you’re either active at your work or have enough time/money/energy to exercise regularly. The easiest “default” path when these things are absent is just to be sedentary and eat ultra processed/high on fats and sugar food. There needs to be a deep discussion about these issues and their relationship with the way this state of capitalism is shaping our society.
I’m relatively fit and active, but I have no money issues, no kids, and a chill job.
Ok, cool, and the problem is?
1 billion is a huge number and I think we all just need to take a moment to appreciate how long it must have taken the researchers to count them all, keep track of which ones had already been counted (maybe some kind of catch and release tagging?) and then jot all of the info down.
Fair play
You know what is funny-sad. That’s not nearly as much as I expected. I thought for sure it be closer to 2 billion.
The strain that this will put on the healthcare system in the coming decades is huge.
when you take into account the comorbidities that go with being overweight (that the article mentions) and place them alongside the immobility that it will be caused as atrophy kicks in it is going to devastate the care system.
If you think about the people in care homes today, they had active jobs or carried out active work within the home. people may have had an office job in the past but they would walk or cycle to work so they still had some form of fitness and strength to offset the muscle wasting that begins to occur in middle age.
People that are overweight and of working age today pretty much lead sedentary lives so when atrophy kicks in they will have no muscle mass to hold their frame and they will become immobile. The age that people require care is going to plummet.
It’s never to late to get fit and lose weight. See it as an insurance policy for your old age.
BMI is nonsense.
Op is a bot spamming this all over Reddit
This is a structural issue. It is not about self control or lecturing people on calories in, calories out. That doesn’t help anyone and it just makes people feel attacked. If you’re just going to quote tired old maxims like CICO or eat less move more, just don’t bother. It’s not helpful. It’s not informative. It just lets you feel smug and self righteous without contributing to anything at all. You are not better than others because you’re thin. Body shaming is not productive. It helps no one.
Making healthier choices in many parts of the world is difficult. In the US, for example, many people live in food deserts. They do not have access to healthier foods like fresh vegetables because there’s simply no one local selling them. If you don’t have access to a car, getting to a supermarket to buy healthy food is essentially impossible. This is even more true if you’re disabled. A mile walk to an able bodied person sounds like nothing. If you have peripheral neuropathy (a common complication of diabetes), walking that far makes your feet feel like they’re on fire from the inside out. That’s if your local supermarket even has a route you can walk to, many do not.
Access to the kinds of exercise people actually want to do and can stick to is also highly variable. Whilst there may be free options like running, they’re not universally accessible or possible. As an example, I have a condition that means my ligaments are too loose. They bend and pop out more than is normal. High impact exercise is banned by my rheumatologist because it’s likely to hospitalise me with various ruptured ligaments and dislocated joints. This is just one example, not representative of every person who cannot run.
We know that in the Western world, obesity is highly correlated with poverty. Treating it like an individual moral failing means that we fail to address the socioeconomic factors at play, which means we completely fail to address the issues.
And half is just your mum
This is so scary, like what happens if even more people get obese and then causes the earth to move out of orbit because of the extra weight? We need to tax fat people more
We’re not even allowed to call a fat person fat anymore. This is what people want. They don’t want to be held accountable for their decisions so it’ll just continue.
Hardly surprising
If a billion people are obese. That must mean calorire wise that there is enough for another billion people who are missing out on their calorie count, and people round the world really not need go hungry.
Would be amazing if we had some sort of fast delivery system using air cargo to transport goods around the world in a timely manner. /s /nots
Well maybe people stop defending all these fatties and normalising being a fucking land whale.
If you can’t fit in a plane seat or through a bus door etc then it’s ok you to change not society.
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Wall-E predicted this
Your mum counts for half of them at least.
That is one seventh of the world s population. I bet the UK and the US double that number to a third or more.
Edit, checked, In 2021, 26% of adults in England were obese. · A higher proportion of men than women were either overweight or obese (69% compared with 59%). 42% of adult Americans are obese. So there or thereabouts, writes the bloke who just had 3 chocolate doughnuts for breakfast.
I’m two of them.
I think it’s really hard today to not be overweight obese. Being fit is almost a privilege. It requires time to cook healthy at home or money to buy alternative food instead of cooking. It also requires a lifestyle where you’re either active at your work or have enough time/money/energy to exercise regularly. The easiest “default” path when these things are absent is just to be sedentary and eat ultra processed/high on fats and sugar food. There needs to be a deep discussion about these issues and their relationship with the way this state of capitalism is shaping our society.
I’m relatively fit and active, but I have no money issues, no kids, and a chill job.
Ok, cool, and the problem is?
1 billion is a huge number and I think we all just need to take a moment to appreciate how long it must have taken the researchers to count them all, keep track of which ones had already been counted (maybe some kind of catch and release tagging?) and then jot all of the info down.
Fair play
You know what is funny-sad. That’s not nearly as much as I expected. I thought for sure it be closer to 2 billion.
The strain that this will put on the healthcare system in the coming decades is huge.
when you take into account the comorbidities that go with being overweight (that the article mentions) and place them alongside the immobility that it will be caused as atrophy kicks in it is going to devastate the care system.
If you think about the people in care homes today, they had active jobs or carried out active work within the home. people may have had an office job in the past but they would walk or cycle to work so they still had some form of fitness and strength to offset the muscle wasting that begins to occur in middle age.
People that are overweight and of working age today pretty much lead sedentary lives so when atrophy kicks in they will have no muscle mass to hold their frame and they will become immobile. The age that people require care is going to plummet.
It’s never to late to get fit and lose weight. See it as an insurance policy for your old age.
BMI is nonsense.
Op is a bot spamming this all over Reddit
This is a structural issue. It is not about self control or lecturing people on calories in, calories out. That doesn’t help anyone and it just makes people feel attacked. If you’re just going to quote tired old maxims like CICO or eat less move more, just don’t bother. It’s not helpful. It’s not informative. It just lets you feel smug and self righteous without contributing to anything at all. You are not better than others because you’re thin. Body shaming is not productive. It helps no one.
Making healthier choices in many parts of the world is difficult. In the US, for example, many people live in food deserts. They do not have access to healthier foods like fresh vegetables because there’s simply no one local selling them. If you don’t have access to a car, getting to a supermarket to buy healthy food is essentially impossible. This is even more true if you’re disabled. A mile walk to an able bodied person sounds like nothing. If you have peripheral neuropathy (a common complication of diabetes), walking that far makes your feet feel like they’re on fire from the inside out. That’s if your local supermarket even has a route you can walk to, many do not.
Access to the kinds of exercise people actually want to do and can stick to is also highly variable. Whilst there may be free options like running, they’re not universally accessible or possible. As an example, I have a condition that means my ligaments are too loose. They bend and pop out more than is normal. High impact exercise is banned by my rheumatologist because it’s likely to hospitalise me with various ruptured ligaments and dislocated joints. This is just one example, not representative of every person who cannot run.
We know that in the Western world, obesity is highly correlated with poverty. Treating it like an individual moral failing means that we fail to address the socioeconomic factors at play, which means we completely fail to address the issues.
And half is just your mum
This is so scary, like what happens if even more people get obese and then causes the earth to move out of orbit because of the extra weight? We need to tax fat people more
We’re not even allowed to call a fat person fat anymore. This is what people want. They don’t want to be held accountable for their decisions so it’ll just continue.
Hardly surprising
If a billion people are obese. That must mean calorire wise that there is enough for another billion people who are missing out on their calorie count, and people round the world really not need go hungry.
Would be amazing if we had some sort of fast delivery system using air cargo to transport goods around the world in a timely manner. /s /nots
Well maybe people stop defending all these fatties and normalising being a fucking land whale.
If you can’t fit in a plane seat or through a bus door etc then it’s ok you to change not society.
I’m one of a billion!