US adult obesity rate: 1975 - 12% 1985 - 15% 1998 - 25% 2014 - 35% 2024 - 42%. 2031 - 50% (projected) Concerning numbers. This is a silent pandemic.
I know how to help individuals lose fat (I wrote a book on it) but I don't know how this national and global trend can be reversed at scale in an ethical manner. Having the majority of the population being obese is not sustainable. So many negative ramifications.
@ZubyMusic What are your thoughts on ozempic and the new obesity drugs being released?
The 42% actually comes from data collected before 2018. Especially after the Great Fattening of 2020 it is impossible to believe that America is under 50% obesity already. However, other data on waist circumference collected in 2018 also showed that the average American was already viscerally obese when calculating Waist to Height Ratio.
@ZubyMusic Doing my very best to reverse that!
I'm assuming that is figures based on obesity only, (BMI over 30) and not not including 'overweight' (eg with a BMI between 25.1 and 29.9)? In 2021, in the UK of people aged 45-74, the proportion of people overweight or obese (anything with a BMI over 25), was above 70%! How's that for figures?!