Think of all the unnecessary strain on our health care system. The lost economic output. All the mental health issues that compound due to physical health issues relating to fatness.
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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There is a constant dichotomy between advertisement telling people that they should eat more of XXX (put any kind of junk food here) and the society saying that they shouldn't eat it.
This alone has a big weight on mental health.
Why tf are people doing what advertising tells them?
Do you really think it was a billion dollar industry if it didn’t work? People might think they aren’t affected by it, but the constant barrage of carefully crafted advertisements will affect anyone’s subconscious. Coka Cola doesn’t need you to go out and buy their product right now. They just need to make you think a $4 bottle filled with $0.03/L unquestionably unhealthy sugar water is a fair exchange.
I didn't say they don't work. I asked why people make decisions based on it. If you pay attention you can see all things commercials do to manipulate you emotionally. It's always the same shit.
They tell them alot
Almost like it is design
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Did they change the definition of obese between 2012 and 2022?
Yeah, this is a data, inputs or measurement difference graph, not an apples to apples visualization. As bad as healthy and obesity in our country are and have been, this did not change by this much in 10 years. I'd guess either the data for 2012 was skewed low or 2022 high relative to the other.
So would that mean that California has actually gotten fitter in that period of time, since it appears to be the only state with no visible change? (Edit: Michigan as well)
Nah, they just can't afford to eat because they're spending all their money on rent.
When did the weight cut offs change? I dont recall seeing that anywhere in the past 15+ years?
2022 was still a pandemic year. 2021/2022 data would be skewed to more people living a sedentary life.
This doesn’t look right - 2012 looks way better than it should. The national obesity rate was about 36% in 2012, yet not a single state in the 2012 diagram has colorization in the 35%+ range.
Wooooololololol America out there just crushing it!
Burger? Crushed!
Shakes? Crushed!
Fries? Crushed!
Pizza? Crushed!
Park bench? Oh fuck yeah crushed!
Santa's Lap? Oh you better believe that mother fucker was crushed!
Exercise and a low fascist/maga diet? No, not crushed. But they'll get there.
Guys if we all stand on the edge we can flip it over
It will definitely take more weight to tip over than it takes to tip Guam.
Guam
If a bunch of penguins can flip an iceberg then enough people can flip America
I'd like to see a similar map with poverty rates, because I would bet there is more than likely some significant overlap. More fattening processed foods are usually cheaper than their healthier alternatives.
Super unfriendly to colorblind people... why not just use a gradient (?) this is completely incomprehensible to me...
for the love of everything unholy please fucking caption your sources inside the picture
i'm goddamn sick of scrolling through a bunch of redditors' comments to find the context behind a genuinely interesting graphic.
edit: oh wait, there is none
Cali
how is this beautiful?
The data is beautiful. What it represents: not so much
it's just a map with some colours, i don't see how that's particularly beautiful.
Is the bar for entry here just.. not having images be black and white?..
The colors mean something though, it's not like I gave a child a crayon box and told them to color within the lines
but it's not particularly beautiful, it's just a bog-standard statistical map
you can make this in 5 minutes in microsoft paint
The beauty is in the data itself, not just the image. It took more than 5 minutes to collect all that data
so if someone posts a table of the data that's also a post that belongs here?
Read the !about for this community and it will answer that question for you
So you turned on the alarms, but they did nothing about it.
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