OECD Obesity Update: Almost 39% of American Adults over age 15 now classified obese

[NigerianNightmare]

American cities are built around the car. Even New Zealand he numbers are carried by Maori people who are overweight on average due to genes. The best way to fix it isn't necessarily a complete
Change in diet but a change in American cities and a change in GMO regulations etcetera.

Originally Posted by texan2yankee

Blacks and Hispanics have statistically higher BMis than whites. It is no surprise America is getting fatter statistically. Minorities are gaining in numbers and contributing more statistically to the obese/overweight categories.

Oh nice. Pretend it's because of minorities.

Do explain West Virginia, an almost exclusively white state, which has one of the highest obesity rates in the country.

The CDC keeps track of this by race. It is true that blacks and hispanics have higher rates, but let's not pretend white people aren't a bunch of fatties, too.

It's largely an economic problem. People without money cannot afford to eat quality food. They have to buy whatever is cheap, which in the US means garbage funded by government subsidies to the agriculture industry in middle America.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html

[texan2yankee]

Originally Posted by JasonF

Oh nice. Pretend it's because of minorities.

Do explain West Virginia, an almost exclusively white state, which has one of the highest obesity rates in the country.

The CDC keeps track of this by race. It is true that blacks and hispanics have higher rates, but let's not pretend white people aren't a bunch of fatties, too.

It's largely an economic problem. People without money cannot afford to eat quality food. They have to buy whatever is cheap, which in the US means garbage funded by government subsidies to the agriculture industry in middle America.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html

Whites are fatties, not disagreeing. But as a percentage of the population Hispanics are growing as a percentage of the population and they and blacks are obese and overweight statistically more than whites. Why deny statistics?

Bull**** on the food excuse. Poor people in other countries are thin. In American poor people are fat. Food stamps are making people fat.