Nearly 1 in 10 Americans report they are severely obese, says study.
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans report they are severely obese, says study.
Experts say preventing obesity in the first place is key, starting in early childhood
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Only ten percent? I'd have guessed it's higher, but perhaps the states I haven't visited have slimmer people.
It's those who are severely obese. 40% are obese and 75% are overweight.
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Obesity and being overweight overlap. Like how all squares are shapes but not all shapes are squares
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Maybe it would help you to read in an "at least" to those stats
This reminds of upgrades in tower defense games for some reason.
Gun
Rifle
Gatling gun
Machine gun I
Machine gun II
Machine gun III
"You only have Obesity I? Get on my level noob I have Obesity III"
I'm not going to argue semantics.
Severe/morbid obesity is a BMI of 40+, rather than 30 for obese. I've been at the low end of that briefly and started getting out of breath doing things like going to my car, so I immediately decided to drop weight. Bar things like severe depression or significant medical issues, I don't see how people are able to maintain that kind of weight when it has such an obvious direct impact on quality of life.
Curious if the survey also included children, where the rates tend to be lower.
Child obesity has been higher than the national average for the last 30 years.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity-child-17-18/obesity-child.htm
Young children were like half the rate of adults and adolescents. Even if you averaged the 6-11 in with them, they'd still be below adults and adolescents.
It’s my understanding that the US considers children to be people under 18 years of age.
Wouldn't that be minors? Still, every group except young children were about the same, so minors as a whole would still be lower than non-minors.
The way i read it is how many call themselves severally obese. Not how many actually are. My guess is that many more are severally obese but dont identify as being so