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JimmyMemes @lemmy.world

1y ago

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Silver lining, overweight is trending down!

You know, we really need more highway lanes and more cars, we should really get everyone engaged with technology, consumers can decide for themselves if cheap and readily available heavily processes sugary, fatty, salty foods are what they prefer to eat.
Huh, why is everyone so fat?

Source? This graph seems made up as fuck.
- In reality "only" around 41.9% of US citizens are considired obese. That is stillbhuge and rising.
  Source: CDC
  Title : National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017–March 2020 Prepandemic Data Files Development of Files and Prevalence Estimates for Selected Health Outcomes
  Personal Author(s) : Stierman, Bryan;Afful, Joseph;Carroll, Margaret D.;Chen, Te-Ching;Davy, Orlando;Fink, Steven;Fryar, Cheryl D.;Gu, Qiuping;Hales, Craig M.;Hughes, Jeffery P.;Ostchega, Yechiam;Storandt, Renee J.;Akinbami, Lara J.;
  Corporate Authors(s) : National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
  Published Date : 06/14/2021
  Series : NHSR No. 158
  Source : National Health Statistics Reports
  URL : https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/106273
  
  Yeah, that's what the chart says, and about 40% are oveweight
  
  So, just to be clear, if I'm following correctly: the chart is incorrect. The error in the chart is that it ignores that obese people are also overweight, and "extreme obese" people are also both obese and overweight.
  So rather than show the obese people as a subset of overweight, and extreme obese as a subset of obese, the chart is adding the percentages together to falsely represent each designation cumulatively.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States
- Also only goes to ~2015

This graph is objectively incorrect which does a disservice to the real problem it's intended to address. This is misinformation.
- No it isn't
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States
  
  I want both of you to elaborate. I don't think anyone is denying obesity rates are doing up, but the graph doesn't seem like a good way to show this? It doesn't even include healthy weight people.

That's also me but only because I like fat chicks

Huh. TIL the vast majority of Americans are unhealthy as fuck.
- It's actually kinda absurd that this is 80% of people. That's a ridiculous statistic.
  
  Ridiculous as in untrue or ridiculous that we as american's have let our society get here?
  
  What's more ridiculous is what's considered "overweight" since it's just based on BMI, which itself is just based on height and weight.

That yellow/orange line is calling me out personally.

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