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Three-Quarters of U.S. Adults Are Now Overweight or Obese (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] moistclump 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Study link for the curious https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01548-4/fulltext

[–] moistclump 1 points 1 month ago

If anyone’s curious about where that ranks, I was surprised it wasn’t a higher rank overall by country but quite a significant difference in how US rates compares to say UK.

Though the U.S. doesn’t top the list of countries with the highest prevalence of obesity, it has seen significant increases during the survey time period and has higher rates than some other wealthy nations. The U.S. adult obesity rate increased from 21.2% in 1990 to 43.8% in 2022 for women, and from 16.9% to 41.6% in 2022 for men, according to the study, placing the country 36th in the world for highest obesity rates among women and 10th highest among men. By contrast, the adult obesity rate in the U.K. increased from 13.8% in 1990 to 28.3% in 2022 for women, ranking it 87th highest in the world, while the obesity rate for men rose from 10.7% to 26.9%, making it 55th highest for obesity.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2024-02-29/more-than-1-billion-people-worldwide-suffer-from-obesity#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20adult%20obesity%20rate,and%2010th%20highest%20among%20men.