12mo ago

We might have finally turned the corner on obesity

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Why do I have the nagging feeling this has more to do with price gouging and shrinkflation, and less to do with health awareness or self control.
- It's possible, but I think it's largely been attributed to drugs like ozempic. Something like 1 in 8 people have taken it in some form already.
  
  Good point. Can't wait to read about the terrible long term side effects of that stuff in like ten years.
  
  Yeah, I was reading a news article to this effect the other day.
  Hell if I saved it and/or remember where I saw it, but shouldn't be too hard to dredge up a news report to that effect.
- It doesn't. The poorest areas of America are the most obese. That's because healthy food is considered luxury goods and cheap food is terrible for you.
- I know I’ve cut one meal a day out to combat inflations effects on my wallet. It hasn’t been that difficult, and I definitely have lost weight.
My dad's diet was so bad and he was so overweight he contracted diabetes. And one of the medications got on was Ozempic. That was back in 2020 and he has lost a lot of weight. I just assume anyone making miraculous weight losses are on that version by now.
- I know people that have used Ozempic to lose 10 vanity pounds. I wouldn't be surprised if that doest have widespread effect.
There Gen z goes..... killing another industry.
Maybe the line is collapsing under its own weight
Do we know if that's people being less overweight... or is that line going down... people who died through comorbidity with something else?
- I tried to find the data, it looks like the financial times evaluated data from August 2023 and made that chart? This is apparently the survey source with a lazy google: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/continuousnhanes/default.aspx?Cycle=2021-2023 cause i was curious too
Now I need to turn my own personal corner and join the trend.
Damn, I moved out of the country in 2023. SMH
Meth for the win!
ceiling effect?

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