Think of all the unnecessary strain on our health care system. The lost economic output. All the mental health issues that compound due to physical health issues relating to fatness.
There is a constant dichotomy between advertisement telling people that they should eat more of XXX (put any kind of junk food here) and the society saying that they shouldn’t eat it.
This alone has a big weight on mental health.
Why tf are people doing what advertising tells them?
Do you really think it was a billion dollar industry if it didn’t work? People might think they aren’t affected by it, but the constant barrage of carefully crafted advertisements will affect anyone’s subconscious. Coka Cola doesn’t need you to go out and buy their product right now. They just need to make you think a $4 bottle filled with $0.03/L unquestionably unhealthy sugar water is a fair exchange.
I didn’t say they don’t work. I asked why people make decisions based on it. If you pay attention you can see all things commercials do to manipulate you emotionally. It’s always the same shit.
They tell them alot
Almost like it is design
May well have been caused by the health care system: Obesity: A New Adverse Effect of Antibiotics?
No, it’s because people eat to much. I’ve yet to meat a single obese person that doesn’t eat like shit.
You need to learn how to spell
Maybe, but at least I know how to regulate my caloric intake.
According to our politicans and everyone on Reddit and Lemmy and Twitter it’s tobacco…evil tobacco. You can be healthy and morbidly obese as well …
I don’t really understand what you’re saying. Could you rephrase it or elaborate, please?
They’re saying that there seems to be a lot of people [online] who support cigarette bans, but probably don’t support bans on the junk foods they enjoy that contribute to a far more severe problem.
Also probably, folks attacking anyone online, including health professionals, who frames being overweight as a negative thing. I’ve seen these exact things [online] myself. I understand it’s a vocal minority though, as is often the case [on the Internet].
Yep… there is a large portion of the population who thinks that tobacco is still the number one killer and want to continue to put more and more laws in place…when the reality it’s no longer in the top 10. Almost all of our top 10 now is from food/obesity and surprise… alcohol.
Did they change the definition of obese between 2012 and 2022?
Yeah, this is a data, inputs or measurement difference graph, not an apples to apples visualization. As bad as healthy and obesity in our country are and have been, this did not change by this much in 10 years. I’d guess either the data for 2012 was skewed low or 2022 high relative to the other.
So would that mean that California has actually gotten fitter in that period of time, since it appears to be the only state with no visible change? (Edit: Michigan as well)
Nah, they just can’t afford to eat because they’re spending all their money on rent.
When did the weight cut offs change? I dont recall seeing that anywhere in the past 15+ years?
2022 was still a pandemic year. 2021/2022 data would be skewed to more people living a sedentary life.
This doesn’t look right - 2012 looks way better than it should. The national obesity rate was about 36% in 2012, yet not a single state in the 2012 diagram has colorization in the 35%+ range.
Wooooololololol America out there just crushing it!
Burger? Crushed!
Shakes? Crushed!
Fries? Crushed!
Pizza? Crushed!
Park bench? Oh fuck yeah crushed!
Santa’s Lap? Oh you better believe that mother fucker was crushed!
Exercise and a low fascist/maga diet? No, not crushed. But they’ll get there.
Guys if we all stand on the edge we can flip it over
It will definitely take more weight to tip over than it takes to tip Guam.
Guam
If a bunch of penguins can flip an iceberg then enough people can flip America
I’d like to see a similar map with poverty rates, because I would bet there is more than likely some significant overlap. More fattening processed foods are usually cheaper than their healthier alternatives.
Super unfriendly to colorblind people… why not just use a gradient (?) this is completely incomprehensible to me…
for the love of everything unholy please fucking caption your sources inside the picture
i’m goddamn sick of scrolling through a bunch of redditors’ comments to find the context behind a genuinely interesting graphic.
edit: oh wait, there is none
Cali
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So you turned on the alarms, but they did nothing about it.
how is this beautiful?
The data is beautiful. What it represents: not so much
it’s just a map with some colours, i don’t see how that’s particularly beautiful.
Is the bar for entry here just… not having images be black and white?..
The colors mean something though, it’s not like I gave a child a crayon box and told them to color within the lines
but it’s not particularly beautiful, it’s just a bog-standard statistical map
you can make this in 5 minutes in microsoft paint
The beauty is in the data itself, not just the image. It took more than 5 minutes to collect all that data
so if someone posts a table of the data that’s also a post that belongs here?
Read the !about for this community and it will answer that question for you
Way to go Hawaii, the only state getting fitter…
Might want to check those colors again
That’s what I get for reading quickly on my phone… :-( I guess at least California isn’t getting fatter
My Dad is a personal trainer in CA - I texted him this and said “you did it!”
That’s fucking funny. My coffee has been spat.
michigan, as well. one notch looser on the belt, but steady nonetheless.
I withdraw my down vote with your gracious accountability and up vote for cali. At least there are a few.
There’s no seasons…
There’s a couple “monsoon months” where you’ll get frequent 15 minute downpours.
But I lived there for a while and went to the beach literally everyday for a year. When it’s always “beach season” people don’t put on that 10-15lbs of winter weight every year. It’s easier to just stay in shape than to get back into shape every year.
Some parts of Florida are similar, but Florida is thrown off by all the elderly Midwesterners that retire in Florida
Hawaii got fatter. I guess fewer people are going to the beach?
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Must have been the year McDonalds released the value meal.
Direct effects of the “body positivity” movement
Being fat is unhealthy. Loving yourself does not mean you are without flaw, it means making yourself the best you you can be. Stop being content with being fat, and stop allowing your friends to be fat
The body positive movement is a non-variable in practice. This is simply a continuing trend of decades of poor diet and little movement.
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Given that this chart probably relies on BMI data and that data isn’t really as reliable as we like to think, I wouldn’t put too much stock in it.
