Somehow, Americans’ waistlines outdo themselves year after year — the biomedical solution to which, of course, is government-subsidized weight loss drugs with a horrific rap sheet of side effects that cost thousands of dollars a month.
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According to a newly released study, almost 75% of American adults now qualify medically as overweight or obese, with the starkest figures reported, tragically, in children.
Via The New York Times (emphasis added):
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to a sweeping new study. The findings have wide-reaching implications for the nation’s health and medical costs as it faces a growing burden of weight-related diseases.
The study, published on Thursday in The Lancet, reveals the striking rise of obesity rates nationwide since 1990 — when just over half of adults were overweight or obese — and shows how more people are becoming overweight or obese at younger ages than in the past. Both conditions can raise the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, and shorten life expectancy.
The study’s authors documented increases in the rates of overweight and obesity across ages. They were particularly alarmed by the steep rise among children, more than one in three of whom are now overweight or obese.
Quantitative, empirical evidence is always a great asset for making determinations about public health, but it isn't really necessary if you travel abroad, as I do. The volume and ratio of obese children to normal-sized children in the United States is the exception, not the norm. And, in places that have seen an uptick in obese children, which is a lot, the trend is largely based on dietary changes induced by Western fast-food chains and a growing appetite for that culinary genre.
Based on the current trajectory, the number of obese or overweight Americans will climax at 260 million by 2050.
From the aforementioned study, via The Lancet study:
In 2021, an estimated 15·1 million (95% UI 13·5–16·8) children and young adolescents (aged 5–14 years), 21·4 million (20·2–22·6) older adolescents (aged 15–24 years), and 172 million (169–174) adults (aged ≥25 years) had overweight or obesity in the USA…
Forecast results suggest that if past trends and patterns continue, an additional 3·33 million children and young adolescents (aged 5–14 years), 3·41 million older adolescents (aged 15–24 years), and 41·4 million adults (aged ≥25 years) will have overweight or obesity by 2050….
Existing policies have failed to address overweight and obesity. Without major reform, the forecasted trends will be devastating at the individual and population level, and the associated disease burden and economic costs will continue to escalate.
Any honest and knowledgeable doctor (a rarer find than it should be) will tell you that, if a child balloons into morbid obesity early in his/her developmental years, it’s dramatically harder to shed pounds in adulthood. So, in effect, by allowing these trends to continue, parents and schools and doctors and society at large are setting these kids up statistically for a lifetime of chronic disease before early graves.
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Meanwhile, this liberal TikTok heifer with a chin the size of Rhode Island — who looks suspiciously very much like the “Fat Bastard” character from the Austin Powers franchise — encourages her catatonic libtard comrades upset about the unbroken glass ceiling to cope with ice cream and wash it down with an “entire bottle of wine,” which is obviously a healthy and normal response to an undesired election outcome.
She’s struggling a lot with the election results… pic.twitter.com/Ps8TuSQcf0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 8, 2024
So the long and short of it is: things are looking brighter than ever for American public health!
