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.

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      21 hours ago

      On one hand, it literally is as easy as “eat less”. On the other, this is spoken like someone who’s never struggled with anything like this, and you sound like a real ass. Bc you’re right, it is as easy as “eat less”, but if that were easy, wouldn’t everyone be a healthy weight, then? Obesity wouldn’t even be a concept, if eating less was an easy thing to do.

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        “easy” is definitely not the word to use, since it’s clearly not easy. I think “Simple” is the better way to put it. Things can be simple, and yet extremely difficult.

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        Actually, eating less won’t work for a lot of people and you could easily end up doing more harm to your health than the obesity is doing if you push it far enough

        What you need to do is eat healthy and get regular physical activity to coax your body into metabolizing things like it should. Of course, healthy food and the space to exercise both cost money, so yeah - poverty is to social problems what boiling water is to generating energy.

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          Eating less will absolutely work for 100% of people. That’s just physics. The problem is adjusting timeframe expectations. If it took a lifetime to gain the weight, you’re not going to get rid of it with a couple months of dieting. Trying to go too fast is what causes the problem. It’s like never working out a day in your life, then trying to bench 500 lbs as your first ever lift; you’re going to hurt yourself.

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          You can get fat eating healthy food too. It’s calories in and calories out. If you eat less than you consume you will lose weight. Eating less works for 100% of people.

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            You can get fat eating healthy food too.

            Hence why I said “eat healthy” not “eat healthy food”

            It’s calories in and calories out

            Hence why I said “and get regular physical activity” to raise the second part of that equation

            If you eat less than you consume you will lose weight. Eating less works for 100% of people.

            Eating “less” could still be more than you’re consuming if you don’t have any physical activity, so, no, just eating less will not work for 100% of people

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        but if that were easy, wouldn’t everyone be a healthy weight, then? Obesity wouldn’t even be a concept, if eating less was an easy thing to do.

        Go to Europe. Any large city. You will not see an obese person. The whole point of this article is that obesity is a US culture problem, and it’s regional. Amazing difference across the US/Canada border. Obesity rates in Japan are very low, but in Japanese-Americans it gets 4X higher. Americans eat bad food, and they eat too much of it, and they don’t do anything physical.

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          There was a YT documentary about the difference between Japan and the US. Basically it boiled down to kids in Japan actually being taught how to deal with food in a healthy manner.

          But Michelle Obama tried something similar in the US and people lost their fucking MINDS. Healthy food is communism!

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      put the ozempic in the water

      Be careful what you say, that could seriously harm junk food profits, you don’t want to get the McDonald mafia after you.

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      This might be the least informed comment I have ever seen online.

      Obesity in the US has far more to do with food quality and food availability than quantity consumed.