According to some sources, at least 1 in 8 of the world population is classified as ‘obese’. Since nobody in any government seems to have thought up a working solution, what do you believe can be done to solve the epidemic?

the alleged definition of obesity

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[–] 1 point 14 hours ago (7 children)

1 fix bmi. Its completely wrong for people who are very tall or very Short making insurance more expensive among other things.

2 glp1 for all

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  • [–] 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    1 and very well-muscled people

    BMI shouldn't be used to evaluate an individual, period. It's fine for populations, like when comparing correlations across groups.

    If already measuring height and weight, adding waist circumference greatly improves ability to parse out visceral fat versus heavily muscled.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago

    So many commenters forget that BMI was created based on statistical analysis of young white men - specifically, soldiers. Just like IQ tests. So neither accounts for age, height, race, sex, disability, financial background, illness, mental health, limb differences, etc and so on. BMI is only useful for evaluating if your average young white man is fit for military service, and that's it. But because it's such a nice number with a simple formula, it got slapped on everything. Which is shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    Waist to height is the only proven metric, but as I wrote above, BMI misses in the other direction much more frequently. You are not likely so muscular you are obese, but skinny-fat is common.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    Not to be poo-poo on your answer, but GLP1 for all has the same vibe as turning on your heating with all the windows open. Its solves the issue today, but doesn't solve the problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Why GLP1 drugs though? I thought that was intentionally being pushed because food is intentionally being made unhealthy. It also doesn't address the root of the problem. Things can be done so that you don't need to take drugs in the first place.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    I had making food healthy like Europe all written out. But that was scoped more to the USA and mexico. So replaced it with glp1. That would at least help the world eat under the daily calorie limit of shitty food

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