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.
It’d be cool if they stopped lacing all the food with high fructose corn syrup.
And the demographics cargo train is already on its way for another victim
How do you think this is going to work when that obese population gets a little older and the next generation is going to somehow have to take care of all those people that can barely work anymore?
The demographics train is slow but when it hits, it’s a motherfucker that will shred you to pieces. China and Russia too will understand this real soon
The solution to losing weight is to only eat 1 meal a day, preferably at the end.
Incorrect. Fat shot drug is available as fat pill drug. They have or are working on children’s version. We will eat nothing and be happy. Also alcoholism will sharply decline
doesn’t work unless you stay on the drugs for life.
people on GPL drugs who stop using them gain 70% of the weight back within six months.
the issue is lifestyle. americans eat too much and don’t exercise enough. GPL drugs just make it so they eat less, but they still eat the same crap they did before so 2000 calories of hamburgers and fries (the small instead of the large). so once they go off the drug they go right back to eating 4000 calories a day.
the issue is that you shouldn’t be eating hamburgers and fries regularly, no matter the portion. a lot americans eat a daily diet that is suppose to be sometimes foods. everyday foods should be bland and in smaller portions. asian and european diets are way more full of basic grains, veg, and lean meats.
american food system is loaded with junk that makes you want to eat more of it. lots of processed crap, fatty meats, and added sugar/fat to everything.
Are we just using bmi because I have this friend who is a refrigerator. Short, stocky, all muscle. Bmi is something like morbid obesity back when they used the term. She had no fat weight to lose, she needed to gain fat. Or height I guess. Best clown and drummer I ever worked with.
that isn’t the majority of people
i’m talking about my drummer friend not most people
Not if we can’t afford groceries anymore.
The cheapest foods are the worst for you, unfortunately.
Unless they are grains and legumes.
Yeah I can eat pretty cheap with healthy food. Meat is the expensive part.
I only buy meat when it’s on sale and freeze what I don’t eat that day. But the prices are still crazy
I found a bunch of turkeys on sale at a particular store that often has them and got like 13 of them for the winter here still have like eight left.
We’re already eating other metaphorically, we can just start doing it literally too
We have an extremely fucked food supply.
Don’t worry, just slather some beef tallow on your skin, have an undercooked burger, and enjoy reaping the instant health benefits.
I mean…those undercooked burgers do have a good chance of helping you lose weight…
Fuck yea, MAHA high five! 🙏
I’m doing my part!
Low quality, high carb food is profitable. Our western diet is built around a carb diet. While approximately half the population does fairly well, weight wise, the other half does not because their bodies preferentially store carb calories as fat. That said I struggled with my weight although I was very active. Due to health issues I switched to a low carb diet more like the one I grew up with - mostly protein, high fat ( good fats like fatty fish, nuts, butter, olive oil and coconut oil), and reasonable amounts of complex carbohydrates. Weigh came off without exercise or any other effort. BTW, the calories in, the calories out approach is just plain wrong. Carbs MAKE you hungry.
You only have one shot at this life so why would you burden yourself lugging around 50 pounds, 100 pounds or more everywhere you go.half the population does well weight wise is the rich part that buys better quality food, goes to the doctor regularly, and exercises.
By what criteria are you classifying coconut oil as a good fat? The way I understand it fats going from worst to best go something like trans fat, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, omega 3. Coconut oil is nearly 100% saturated fat, moreso than butter which is around 80%. So if coconut oil is good then so is butter.
I will say it’s somewhat marginal on the health benefits of unsaturated vs saturated though, so I will continue to use coconut oil but not sure it’s any better than other fats.
the marketing criteria that convinces them to pay a lot more for it than other oils.
hence why they also are going on about calories not being a thing, and basically telling people to go by the most expensive foods as a means to lose weight.
a lot of ‘experts’ on nutrition are just welathy dumbasses who believe marketing slop and are under the guise that if they pay 20/lb for salmon it’s ‘better’ than chicken that’s 5/lb
Your understanding is the one I was taught throughout university but there is a competing vision where saturated fats aren’t bad. The people who talk about the evils of seed oils tend to believe this. I haven’t looked into it in a few years but there are lots of internet doctors/health influencers who can walk you through the reasoning if you are interested. I didn’t find the arguments too compelling but I’ve also been bored of extreme diets for a bit so I may be biased.
Then there are those of us who embrace saturated fats (in moderation) and seed oils.
wow. stop with this crazy talk.
next thing you know you’ll tell me that eating a boring balanced diet that doesn’t exceed my caloric needs is how i maintain a healthy weight. because clearly that can’t be it… it has to be a secret nutritional key to unlocking weight loss.
Any evidence of Health harms from seed oils are going to be from the chemicals used in the production of those plants, not from the oils of those seeds themselves. Just throwing that out there because the cynical motherfuckers in maha will not.
If you doubt BMI (like many of the replies I got to my other comment), you can probably ignore this study:
Design, Setting, and Participants Analysis of measured body mass index data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and bias-corrected body mass index values calculated from self-reported height and weight data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Gallup Daily Survey using spatiotemporal gaussian process regression and an ensemble of annualized rate of change and meta-regression bayesian spline models. Surveys for input data were conducted using population-based sampling by state and by race and ethnicity group with a total of 11 315 421 US participants.
Main Outcomes and Measures Obesity prevalence (BMI ≥30).
So, one reason I’m concerned about my BMI (39.5 kg/m2) is because I’m making my country look bad. Tho, with Trump at the helm, my contributions to that effort are overshadowed.
“Living with obesity” is a funny way of putting it. I’m living with 3 cats and obesity.
Wasn’t she a stripper?
🔥🔥🔥
We named the skinny one: Obesity. It made a bit more sense when he was younger.
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And that’s after US MDs successfully petitioned to re define the threshold of obesity and morbid obesity.
They did that in the early 2000s too. Tens of millions of people became obese over night and we suddenly had an obesity epidemic.
uh no, they keep making the bar higher. America has an obesity epidemic because it’s fat. Most Americans don’t leave the country, but you don’t see fat sloppy people in European urban centres.
I used to be 330; I’m 5’8". I got down to 220 through diet and exercise. That’s still obese. I did 10k on the Nordictrack this morning, can run a 7 minute mile, and routinely do full-body weight lifting including 10x140 chest presses and 10x300 leg presses. I’m now up to 260, which is even worse obese.
I don’t know how to get to a healthy BMI and I know I’m routinely failing to get there, but I’m trying.
you work out too much.
all that muscle needs fat to support it’s energy. you need to lose both.
i lose weight quickly when i stop working out. both fat and muscle. also weight work increases you bone density.
basically stop being so demanding on your body and it won’t have to ‘bulk’ so much. lighten up on the exercise.
I only do 2 days a week lifting, that’s the NIH recommendation. Granny wants to do 3, but that doesn’t currently fit into the rest of my life.
I would do cardio every day, but things get in the way of that often, too.
because you are working out too much. you should be working out like half of that or less.
NIH recommends like 20m of moderate activity, a day. You are probably doing 10x that. their version of lifting weights is like 10lb dumbells and 5lb ankle weights. not full body lifting.
it sounds like you’re training for athletic competition, not exercise. most people who exercise regularly can’t even do 10K on a nordic track, and you’re doing it in zone 2.
10K on a nordic track
My 5k treadmill times are about novice: https://runninglevel.com/running-times/5k-times
My 10k treadmill times are about beginner: https://runninglevel.com/running-times/10k-times
(I’m 45.)
I’m not going to discourage a low level of exercise (or even not exercise, but activity), but I think the NIH recommendations reflect that my peer group (I’m a professional programmer and hobbist gamer; so pretty sedentary outside of intentional exercise) are very unhealthy.
their version of lifting weights is like 10lb dumbells and 5lb ankle weights. not full body lifting
They specifically mention resistance across all muscle groups and recommend a single set (8-12 reps). They imply that weight should be increased, rather than increasing the number of sets, with muscle fatigue being a a good measurement of effectiveness.
Adults should also do muscle-strengthening activities of moderate or greater intensity and that involve all major muscle groups on 2 or more days a week
(from pg. 56)
muscle-strengthening exercises should be performed to the point at which it would be difficult to do another repetition. When resistance training is used to enhance muscle strength, one set of 8 to 12 repetitions of each exercise is effective,
(from pg. 61)
NIH recommends 150-300 minutes of moderate activity (or 75-150 minutes of strenuous activity) every week. If I keep my HR in the 130s for 60 minutes, that’s ~120 *minutes" due to the intensity. I don’t 10k every day, usually only once a week.
When I did the 5k every day that was too much. But 5 days/week or 3 5ks and 1 10k per week is just about right, as long as I keep up the intensity (if they get too easy, I can increase distance or grade or resistance to maintain HR for the right amount of minutes).
What are your thoughts on weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Mounjaro? Would you consider using them?
I haven’t really looked into them, so I’m not sure. I guess it would depend on risks and side-effects. I do think they would help me consume fewer calories by reducing how much I overeat, so they could be worth it.
I lost about 100lbs on mounjaro. I love how it has changed my relationship with food, and silenced the cravings for unhealthy foods. My doctor was supportive of me taking GLP-1s. Some people say it’s not for them, but it has been wonderful for me.
Talk to your doctor. BMI is a crude metric that doesn’t distinguish between fat and muscle. For understanding population level statistics, this is good enough. But for individuals it can be highly misleading; particularly those that do strength training.
If you wanted to lower your BMI, there is a good chance that stopping all weight lifting would do that for you. But that would probably make you less healthy, despite “improving” your BMI.
Lose weight with cardio first, then try to gain muscle.
I did. I didn’t start lifting until I had my cardio doing much better. IIRC, I started lifting after I is a sub-30min 5km for 28 days in a row. But, I might have did some lifting before then.
Cardio is more my priority because the NIH recommendations are primarily about cardio, with weight/resistance training being secondary. I need to get my running / treadmill 10km to under an hour – the Nordictracktm lets me do a sub-hour 10km, but I’m not sure it’s getting my HR up quite as much as treadmill time. I find it easier to keep myself in “zone 2” on a treadmill with HR sensors in some hand grip.
why are you talking about weight when you should be measuring body fat?
Weight lifters weigh more because muscle is heavy.
Yeah, I should get an 8-contact machine for home to get good BF% numbers.
That said, it’s not hard to find the excess fat on my body, so while I don’t have good measurements, I know my BF% is also still too high. I have promised myself that if I can get a visible “6-pack”, I’ll stop worrying about weight so much, but I doubt that will happen soon.
Weight and BMI are easier for most people (including myself) to habitually track, especially individually. But I agree that BF% is the better metric.
Unfortunately what works for one person might not work for the next. I tried to lose and keep weight off for years without much success, but for me finally getting on thyroid medicine helped get it off for good. Turns out I was snacking because I was so fatigued all the time. It’s a frustrating process to try and find what works for you, especially when everyone just says it’s all calories in vs calories out.
If you want to be toned, don’t do max weight low reps, do high reps lower weight and stop trying to get stronger. I lost weight but was just getting physically bigger and not looking more muscular, only my belly and double chin went away but I stayed basically the same size. I felt a lot healthier tho, just generally good and had no issues being active at edm festivals, I quit working out and I looked skinnier after a while, but feel weaker now that it’s been two years.
I preferred being bigger and feeling strong over now where I can fit large instead of xl but can’t be active for as long without pain. I personally only enjoy the gym when I’m going for a new max weight for every set every week. Ik logically that gaining muscle and lifting heavier should lead to more calories burned naturally and should lead to losing weight and looking less big, but id just gain muscle under my fat layer and look bigger.
I’m not trying to get bigger. I’m following the NIH guidelines to do 1 set of 10 reps and move weight up if/when you can do 2 sets.
I was at 10x280 on the leg press for over a year, but I noticed it getting “too easy” a few weeks ago. Bicep curls still kill my left arm, and I can only do about 60 on those.
dude curling 60 is huge. most people can’t do 30. you’re not gonna be a small guy when you’re curling 60
He probbaly means 60 on a bar? So like 35-40 which is normal, most dudes curl that if they goto the gym a lot and wont have arms that look big unless they flex.
on a machine with cables, its even easier for whatever reason
I think most people give their single-arm / free-weight curl weight. I can only do about 25 on my left arm with that. (My right arm does more and doesn’t hurt in the same way.)
The curl machine I use has both hands on the same bar, and that’s how I can do 60. I don’t mean to be confusing, but I often have trouble talking about lifting because I’m entirely self-taught and didn’t start paying attention to what I was doing until I was like 40. (I avoided exercise for most of my life.)
That said, I’m doing more weight than many people in the gym, so I’m not small. On the hip extension and the rotary abdominal / oblique machines, I do the whole stack 170 lbs. and then +20 lbs.
No shade to people no matter what they can lift. Honestly, I’m more proud of what my 93-year-old grandma does, and it is understandably much less. Health the goal, not weight. You just move the weight up to make sure you are continuing to exert.
Oh weird? Wasn’t there a huge headline recently that obesity rates had declined slightly for the first time in history?
Maybe that was due to the die-off from COVID.
All of the farms are going bankrupt and the people who work the farms are being kidnapped and possibly mass murdered so I don’t know seems like anything could happen. In a famine they might actually be better off
Obesity cutoff-wise, a famine won’t register on a national scale until a year or so down the line
Don’t worry, your president will just declare himself president of another country and take all their produce for you.
