Age is probably a factor but honestly, just walking around and looking at people, experience strongly suggests that there are more, and a lot more at that, young fatties than there used to be.
Personally I don't care so much about whether obesity kills people. It's the aesthetics that trouble me. Streets full of fat people are a form of visual pollution. Like modern architecture, it just makes everyone a bit more miserable to be surrounded by ugliness.
BMI of course is dodgy. Mine is 31.2, so technically obese, but body fat (according to my electronic body fat scale, admittedly an imperfect measuring device) is currently 18.4%, whereas 25% body fat is the threshold for obesity and 21% is considered borderline. That's heavier than I'd like (I hit 15.2% last summer) but then again I spent the last several months bulking and concentrating on getting my lifts up (successfully, too; 245 bench, booyah). All that said, at a population level, I'm extremely skeptical that BMI has gone up due to guys making sick gains in the iron temple.
Perversion of all sorts is promoted and celebrated by leftists, and now, from looking at ads on TV, it seems that obesity is the latest target for promotion and celebration by those same people, all in the effort to destroy this country and remake it into a socialist Nirvana. Vote accordingly.
I really don't think this gets it. Just like studiea somehow show miniscule effects ("actually, there is no shoplifting epidemic in San Francisco") against all evidence of your senses, so also I just don't think the old kind of fatness explains the quantity of morbidly obese people you see, especially among the younger as John Carter mentioned.
With Middle East and Samoa, my bet would be the western diet, processed foods, for which I would bet various native and island people's are much worse adapted then even the westerners themselves.
Age is probably a factor but honestly, just walking around and looking at people, experience strongly suggests that there are more, and a lot more at that, young fatties than there used to be.
Personally I don't care so much about whether obesity kills people. It's the aesthetics that trouble me. Streets full of fat people are a form of visual pollution. Like modern architecture, it just makes everyone a bit more miserable to be surrounded by ugliness.
BMI of course is dodgy. Mine is 31.2, so technically obese, but body fat (according to my electronic body fat scale, admittedly an imperfect measuring device) is currently 18.4%, whereas 25% body fat is the threshold for obesity and 21% is considered borderline. That's heavier than I'd like (I hit 15.2% last summer) but then again I spent the last several months bulking and concentrating on getting my lifts up (successfully, too; 245 bench, booyah). All that said, at a population level, I'm extremely skeptical that BMI has gone up due to guys making sick gains in the iron temple.
Perversion of all sorts is promoted and celebrated by leftists, and now, from looking at ads on TV, it seems that obesity is the latest target for promotion and celebration by those same people, all in the effort to destroy this country and remake it into a socialist Nirvana. Vote accordingly.
I really don't think this gets it. Just like studiea somehow show miniscule effects ("actually, there is no shoplifting epidemic in San Francisco") against all evidence of your senses, so also I just don't think the old kind of fatness explains the quantity of morbidly obese people you see, especially among the younger as John Carter mentioned.
With Middle East and Samoa, my bet would be the western diet, processed foods, for which I would bet various native and island people's are much worse adapted then even the westerners themselves.
Samoa, which used to be called Western Samoa is not the same thing as US Samoa. see: https://1samoana.com/20-most-asked-questions-about-samoa-answered-by-samoans/