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Direct effects of the "body positivity" movement
Being fat is unhealthy. Loving yourself does not mean you are without flaw, it means making yourself the best you you can be. Stop being content with being fat, and stop allowing your friends to be fat
The body positive movement is a non-variable in practice. This is simply a continuing trend of decades of poor diet and little movement.
Given that this chart probably relies on BMI data and that data isn't really as reliable as we like to think, I wouldn't put too much stock in it.
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-adopts-new-policy-clarifying-role-bmi-measure-medicine