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Summary

A new Lancet study reveals nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, a sharp rise from just over half in 1990.

Obesity among adults doubled to over 40%, while rates among girls and women aged 15–24 nearly tripled to 29%.

The study highlights significant health risks, including diabetes, heart disease, and shortened life expectancy, alongside projected medical costs of up to $9.1 trillion over the next decade.

Experts stress obesity’s complex causes—genetic, environmental, and social—and call for structural reforms like food subsidies, taxes on sugary drinks, and expanded treatment access.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My family survived a famine, 80% of them died in the Holodomor.

I've got literal famine resistance genes.

I now live in the United States with access to delivery food and extra cheese pepperoni pizza.

Checkmate natural selection 👉😎👉

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Depressing, but having seen my Missouri friend eat in not surprised. I'm glad he's taking ozempic now cause I swear the Midwestern diet it inherently an eating disorder. (Also thinking of a Texan friend who drinks coke like it's water, oooof).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It’s called freedom, libtards. We want the freedom to order a gallon of soda with our king size fries without the government telling us how to eat or food producers how to make their food. And we certainly don’t want the government to work on our behalf to lower the cost of insulin. We want a free market to shop around for the best price.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've been seeing these commercials about losing weight. They briefly show a 💉 needle and state, "with the same active ingredient as ozampic". It's sort of messed up. It's funny (dark humor), right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's sad on how much food is "wasted" because people eat way more than they need. But now you can eat like a pig and just get a shot to lose weight. As long as it's not some bad big pharma vaccine and i can still eat as many nuggies as i want, fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

GLP-1s work by making unhealthy food feel more sickening, causing people to eat and drink less

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I lost a bunch of weight a couple years ago. The secret was counting calories. Eating out at lunch was usually twice as many calories as I was allowed. Everywhere I went it was this way. Personally, the portion sizes didn't look huge.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably the real reason why McDonald T-rump got voted for again.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Is that better or worse?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

congrats, you're the pinnacle of western society

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