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.
Almost like it is design
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?
They tell them alot
According to our politicans and everyone on Reddit and Lemmy and Twitter it’s tobacco…evil tobacco. You can be healthy and morbidly obese as well …
I don’t really understand what you’re saying. Could you rephrase it or elaborate, please?
They’re saying that there seems to be a lot of people [online] who support cigarette bans, but probably don’t support bans on the junk foods they enjoy that contribute to a far more severe problem.
Also probably, folks attacking anyone online, including health professionals, who frames being overweight as a negative thing. I’ve seen these exact things [online] myself. I understand it’s a vocal minority though, as is often the case [on the Internet].
May well have been caused by the health care system: Obesity: A New Adverse Effect of Antibiotics?
No, it’s because people eat to much. I’ve yet to meat a single obese person that doesn’t eat like shit.
You need to learn how to spell
Maybe, but at least I know how to regulate my caloric intake.
Blaiming obesity on caloric intake and overeating alone is a gross oversimplification. Sure, it is part of the cause, but you are not helping anyone by just blaming people for their individual behavior. Actually, you are part of the problem! So please go and educate yourself instead of trying to pump up your low self esteem by narrow-mindedly bashing on others…
Blaiming obesity on caloric intake and overeating alone is a gross oversimplification.
It’s really not. I eat more calories than I need, I put on weight. I eat less, it comes off. It’s simple. People are responsible for their individual behavior.
Not interested in arguing with you. Try to do some research on the topic and you will see.
Here a random list of sources for you to start with, but the internet is really full if you were just to search for it…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK278977/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-019-0176-8
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7047244.stm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33977636/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_determinants_of_obesity?wprov=sfla1
ETA: Actually, just read the fucking Wikipedia article on obesity!
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)
When did the weight cut offs change? I dont recall seeing that anywhere in the past 15+ years?
I’m also curious what metrics they used to measure obesity.
I would also like to know.
BMI is not a good measurement of obesity. Atheletes who are hyper muscular can be considered obese by this metric, for example.
I don’t doubt that obesity is bad in the US, but I do hope they used a better metric than BMI to measure it.
BMI is a good metric for populations as there are very few athletes at that elite level compared to obese people. At an individual level it can be misleading if you’re an athlete with a high muscle to body fat ratio
BMI alone is not a good metric for populations, unless you also acknowledge the error rate. This study, for example, found that it was very inaccurate when used as a sole measure of obesity. From the abstract:
Using BMI categories as the main indicator of health, an estimated 74 936 678 US adults are misclassified as cardiometabolically unhealthy or cardiometabolically healthy.
In a population of around 330 million, that is around a 23% misclassification rate.
BMI isn’t an indicator of health though, which is exactly what the study says. It’s simply a measurement of body mass, which doesn’t account for other factors
2022 was still a pandemic year. 2021/2022 data would be skewed to more people living a sedentary life.
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.
When 20-25% is green
Back in the 90s (maybe 80s?) the whole map would be green.
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.
Cali
Then they came for the fatties…
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
Super unfriendly to colorblind people… why not just use a gradient (?) this is completely incomprehensible to me…
in android: options>developer options>simulate color space>tritanomaly
hope it helps (at least with android 11)
That’s a tool to help application developers figure out how something looks to color-blind people, so the developers can correct their presentation. It doesn’t resolve color ambiguities for color-blind people by itself.
For example, in the case of the image here, it turns everything into different shades of yellow, with both ends of the color gradient just being “dark yellow”. Now it’s clearly ambiguous to people with normal vision, as well.
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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
It’s beautiful, accessibly-presented data. What the data represent isn’t beautiful though.
Way to go Hawaii, the only state getting fitter…
Might want to check those colors again
That’s what I get for reading quickly on my phone… :-( I guess at least California isn’t getting fatter
My Dad is a personal trainer in CA - I texted him this and said “you did it!”
That’s fucking funny. My coffee has been spat.
michigan, as well. one notch looser on the belt, but steady nonetheless.
I withdraw my down vote with your gracious accountability and up vote for cali. At least there are a few.
Huh? Didnt Hawaii go from green to yellow?
There’s no seasons…
There’s a couple “monsoon months” where you’ll get frequent 15 minute downpours.
But I lived there for a while and went to the beach literally everyday for a year. When it’s always “beach season” people don’t put on that 10-15lbs of winter weight every year. It’s easier to just stay in shape than to get back into shape every year.
Some parts of Florida are similar, but Florida is thrown off by all the elderly Midwesterners that retire in Florida
Hawaii got fatter. I guess fewer people are going to the beach?
When selling a calorie generates profit how else could it turn out?
So you turned on the alarms, but they did nothing about it.
Must have been the year McDonalds released the value meal.
