There’s also a big difference between “life expectancy” and “quality of life”. Being overweight is uncomfortable, limiting, and can be a burden on people around you. I have no way of knowing if I’ll live longer, but my life has become immeasurably better since I went from nearly obese to normal weight.
Additionally, I think the biggest factor to control for is socioeconomic status. A well-off fat person is probably going to have better life expectancy than a poor skinny person.
Being overweight is uncomfortable, limiting, and can be a burden on people around you
While I am not disagreeing in any way, I believe it’s important to point out that there’s also a distinct difference between obese and overweight. Often times overweight is being used as an adjective to indicate that someone is outside the normal weight range, but in the context of medicine and the context of this article, it’s a range of BMI values between the normal and obese categories.
Quality of life measures generally find little to no negative effects with the overweight category, but decrease as you continue into obese categories.
High five on changing your trajectory. That’s great.
I too have a similar story, where last year I read “patient appears overweight” for the first time on a doctors chart, and decided to get back into shape.
This is about the overweight BMI category, not obese categories. It’s also talking about how it’s actually not associated with an increase in overall mortality, but rather the opposite. This observation has been around in literature for quite some time, predating the obesity crisis.
What are you trying to even say with this comment?
Were you being hyperbolic, as a mild defensive response to a perceived slight against your country and the people in it, when the real problems are public education failure, health system failure, political corruption, and a food industry that intentionally gets your youth hooked on things like HFCS at an early age?
While I appreciate your concern for how fat America is, I’m struggling to see how this comment is helpful or leads to a productive discussion in any way 🤷♀️
Pictures and home movies from the 1970s are shocking. People were so much leaner then than now. And going further back, the silent movie actor “Fatty Arbuckle” was considered so fat it was his nickname, yet he wouldn’t look at all extraordinary today.
Seems like it’s the snacking culture, so much snacking “3 meals and 3 snacks” is normal. It didn’t used to be.
It’s wild how fat America has gotten. I don’t even know what works and what doesn’t from a health advice perspective, anymore.
There’s also a big difference between “life expectancy” and “quality of life”. Being overweight is uncomfortable, limiting, and can be a burden on people around you. I have no way of knowing if I’ll live longer, but my life has become immeasurably better since I went from nearly obese to normal weight.
Additionally, I think the biggest factor to control for is socioeconomic status. A well-off fat person is probably going to have better life expectancy than a poor skinny person.
While I am not disagreeing in any way, I believe it’s important to point out that there’s also a distinct difference between obese and overweight. Often times overweight is being used as an adjective to indicate that someone is outside the normal weight range, but in the context of medicine and the context of this article, it’s a range of BMI values between the normal and obese categories.
Quality of life measures generally find little to no negative effects with the overweight category, but decrease as you continue into obese categories.
High five on changing your trajectory. That’s great.
I too have a similar story, where last year I read “patient appears overweight” for the first time on a doctors chart, and decided to get back into shape.
This is about the overweight BMI category, not obese categories. It’s also talking about how it’s actually not associated with an increase in overall mortality, but rather the opposite. This observation has been around in literature for quite some time, predating the obesity crisis.
What are you trying to even say with this comment?
Haven’t you heard? America bad.
You’re suggesting that all fat people are bad?
No
Were you being hyperbolic, as a mild defensive response to a perceived slight against your country and the people in it, when the real problems are public education failure, health system failure, political corruption, and a food industry that intentionally gets your youth hooked on things like HFCS at an early age?
America is getting really fat. Reading the article reminded me of how fat this country is getting.
While I appreciate your concern for how fat America is, I’m struggling to see how this comment is helpful or leads to a productive discussion in any way 🤷♀️
Lots of discussion going on around my comment right now.
The discussion trying to process your extremely vague statement is not productive.
I think you’re being a bit of a buzzkill.
We’re not a space for low effort reddit/twitter style gotchas. Be better.
Reducing my feelings to a “gotcha”. Yeah, I don’t want to browse a community with Reddit style moderation either, thanks.
Pictures and home movies from the 1970s are shocking. People were so much leaner then than now. And going further back, the silent movie actor “Fatty Arbuckle” was considered so fat it was his nickname, yet he wouldn’t look at all extraordinary today.
Seems like it’s the snacking culture, so much snacking “3 meals and 3 snacks” is normal. It didn’t used to be.