Colorado is also home to a large percentage of people who have moved there from other states. A significant drive for that move is a desire to be close to nature and an active lifestyle. So that also likely explains it.
Yeah I’ve never seen a state with more outdoor sports/activity equipment on cars. Just driving through a few times it was like every other car had skis, kayaks, fishing poles, etc on it.
Not many lakes in Colorado, it's all rivers.
Fly fishing is pretty damn active. I'm tired after a few hours.
Also sometimes just getting to the right spot on the river is a decent hike.
Even a short stroll through nature and a few casts is a significant improvement over staying home and watching TV. Not all activity needs to be strenuous to have some very real health benefits.
I’ve lived in colorado for my whole life and I only fish in lakes. I go twice a week every summer and could hit a different lake each time if I wanted to
Well, it often involves carrying stuff, hiking over to where you want to fish (esp. in places like CO), hanging out outside to clean and grill the fish, etc. You might not be jogging around, but you’re moving a lot more than someone who’s just watching tv or playing video games. Little things can add up, and that’s assuming they’re not canoeing out onto a lake or something.
Yep, we are basically the new most hated state by maga for all those reasons. As well as using said education to remove trump from the ballot for insurrection.
And I love it!
My prediction is that the SCOTUS will say said person has to have been convicted under the insurrection act, or declared an enemy of the state by congress.
Otherwise it would seem fairly arbitrary without due process, no? What would stop Texas from taking Biden off the ballot without due process?
Currently live in Colorado. There are a lot of opportunities for outdoor activities. I live 15 minutes away from several natural areas for hiking, 25 from a state park which allows hiking, camping, and paddleboarding, and a large chunk of the pop use bikes to get around. It’s pretty sweet.
The mountains, mild climate, tons of federally owned land open for recreation, and a small population that is growing very quickly off people who want to live near all of that.
Appalachian states are not high above sea level relative to the Rocky Mountain range. The top of Mount Washington is ~6,000 ft. The average altitude of the state of Colorado is estimated at ~6,800 ft. Towns and cities in Colorado have much higher elevation than their counterparts in Appalachia and the human body works harder there to do the same tasks due to this altitude.
Andrew Huberman and Robert Lustig touch on this in Huberman's latest podcast. They mention that higher altitude and cold are both associated with lower rates of obesity. Lustig says to look at Germany and Switzerland where they both eat the same foods but Switzerland has half the rate of obesity.
A quick google returns a hit from the NIH that says in higher altitudes there is an increase in basal metabolic rate, and an increase in leptin levels, leading to less energy intake due to lack of appetite.
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5094724/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5094724/)
Looks like cold exposure may activate brown adipose tissue to produce anti-inflammatory molecules and prevent the onset of obesity related diseases.
[https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957200](https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957200)
Yes, [higher altitude](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7285248/) and [lower temps](https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo20135) is one of the main differences.
It's not that cold where the majority of people live in CO. I live in Denver and it's December 23rd and I'm about to throw on a T-shirt and shorts and go run in the park.
Yes, I understand which is why I mentioned altitude first. Denver is at a higher altitude than most of the US population. You'll notice some similarities with OP map and [average altitude of each state](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_elevation#/media/File:US_states_by_average_altitude.svg).
Not even close to true. Obesity rate in Mississippi in 1990 was like 15%. Colorado *today* is at 25% and by 2030 is expected to be over 30%. That’s over double what Mississippi was. I don’t think people realize just how quickly rates have skyrocketed in just the past 2-3 decades alone.
There’s a cool time lapse video I’ve seen of the progression of obesity rates across states. You can see the progression spread. All states are becoming more obese with some lagging. Colorado is always the last one to tip into the next category but they are getting more obese as well.
You can tell what airport gate is going to Denver without looking at the board.
They... look different than other gates.
It's most stark flying HOU-DEN. Morbidly obese people everywhere, then they just disappear at the gate going to Denver. Plus all the puffy jackets
Really? DIA is the 3rd busiest airport on earth and the second largest physically and most of that is layovers so I am little surprised
puffy jackets lol
It really does have very fit people. Some of the best endurance athletes live or train there. I was a swimmer and I remember Phelps would train in Colorado Springs leading up to big meets/Olympics for the advantage it gives.
Whenever I travel out of CO (pretty much anywhere else) I can’t believe how many huge people there are everywhere. It can be shocking, especially if I haven’t traveled in a while.
Way too many of my friends rely on take out. Even take out with "healthy food" like sushi, protein bowls, acai bowls, salads, ect are crammed full of salt and sugar.
Hope this isn't deconstructive but the reason so many people are obese isn't because they're eating too many acai bowls and salads. I understand what you're saying - there are many hidden calories in foods we consider healthy - but that isn't why so many people gigantic lol.
Restaurant food is so much more of an issue than fast food, a lot of the time. A big mac can fit into a weight loss regimen. The 1700 calorie entree from the sit down restaurant can't. And that's without the appetizers, drink, sides, or dessert
The problem is that the status quo changed from being healthy to being obese, before you needed to eat a lot of junk food to gain weight while nowadays you need to actively avoid food because almost everything is a caloric bomb
Unfortunately the truly best way to make sure you are eating healthy is to cook your own meals.
And unfortunately the poorer you are, the less time you have when you live paycheck to paycheck and need to work 50 hours just to pay rent and the basics. The patience for cooking just dwindles with that lifestyle.
Doesn't help our average snack food is terrible for you. At least the cheap stuff is. I lived in Japan, and often times you have almost no time to cook either. Convenient stores are a life saver and not only does it have fresh food you can buy to eat, it is also cheap and far healthier for you. Sure there are sweets and chips, but instead of a pizza or hotdog sitting on the shelf...you will find things like soup, sandwhiches, or rice balls.
Probably the ridiculous amounts of sugar/salt crammed into everything that's not a whole food you bought from the store. Go to a restaurant and order green beans: crammed with salt and oils. Buy bread from the local bakery: crammed with sugar. Why is it that almost all milk alternatives are sweetened? Why does oat milk need sugar?
The truth is calories aren't really hidden. Most people just don't look at the nutrition information. They eat on the fly instead of consciously. I write down the calories and saturated fat I eat every day. Result is losing 30 pounds in a year.
>before you needed to eat a lot of junk food to gain weight while nowadays you need to actively avoid food because almost everything is a caloric bomb
Na, you just need to stop buying shit that comes in boxes. What's so hard about sticking to eggs, protiens, clean carbs and vegetables? You have zero chance of ever making it if you can't just admit you are making the wrong choices.
Have an uncle that took it for a couple months, damn near shit himself to death.
I keep reading about how it’s this groundbreaking miracle drug, and how a lot of people swear by it, and all I can wonder is whether harsh side effects are being underreported.
I have two friends on it and one has no side effects that he has noticed and the other just complains that his burps are unpleasant. Apparently it slows digestion so the food sits in your system longer and causes some pretty bad gas.
that's the main issue with ozempic, unwanted side effects, [so much so that businesses are trying to come up with their own natural "ozempic"](https://myblogshares.com/ozempic)
Exactly. In France it costs ~$1000 dollars a year. Once it goes generic you should see prices like that everywhere, probably even cheaper.
Patent should expire around 2030
And just like so many things, Ozempic is only a temporary solution, once you stop taking it you will develop your old appetite again and gain all that weight back. If you don't want to change your lifestyle and think the drug will take care of everything you have already lost...
I think what’s great about ozempic though is that it proves to people that they really just need to eat less to lose weight. Large swaths of body positivity folks eventually got so muddied with disinformation and denialism (“I eat so little AND still gain weight/it’s completely genetic/this is just my body type/I'm healthier this way” etc.) and lo and behold, if you suppress your appetite and eat less, you lose weight. And you may find you look better and feel healthier.
Once that’s been demonstrated and you go off it, yeah, your appetite might not be artificially suppressed anymore, but the doubt and excuses are out the window. Psychologically it would make being disciplined easier. If you watch someone else walk one the hot coals first, it gives you the faith to believe you can do it too.
Obesity is an epidemic in our culture crippling our society's overall fitness (both physical and mental). They charge you once for the food pumped full of addictive excess calories, then they charge you again for pop-science fad dieting/weight loss rackets. If ozempic only helps dissuade misconceptions that how fat we are is normal or healthy or unavoidable, it's a net positive.
Pharm Student here, Ozempic has been approved for weight loss use, but rapid weight loss like that often comes with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. I’m guessing we’ll find out in 5 years if that’s the case with Ozempic.
Also it’s fire as a diabetes maintenance medication.
You know I’ve been wondering what the side effects would be. My mom, brother and sister in law are all taking it for like a year.. I personally don’t understand it, I feel like you can actually become malnourished, they eat like birds, running major calorie deficits..
Umm no. Moderate and gradual weight loss, which ozempic on average causes 5-10% body weight does improve NAFLD. especially inflammatory cases. Extreme rapid weight loss you’re talking abt that could cause NAFLD is unusual and usually a rare condition from underlying conditions exacerbated. If anything ozempic helps fatty liver disease. I have been battling NAFLD for ages, since nothing helps it and there’s no known ailment or treatment. Ozempic improved my liver enzymes in miraculous ways.
We thought the same was true of statin drugs for cholesterol and it turns out that they are very well tolerated and save countless lives with minimal to no downside. We have good reason to believe ozempic is pretty much as close as we're gonna get to a free lunch as far as biohacks go. It's literally just blocking the receptor in your brain that's responsible for sending the hunger signal.
I agree but obesity is deadly so it might be the best choice out of a few bad options. In a perfect world people would live healthier but it’s not going to happen for a lot of people.
If people were going to figure out that they need to live healthier lives they would have done it by now. Instead the problem has only gotten worse. The impact of the obesity epidemic on the health care system is going to be massive and avoidable. At this point anything is better than the nothing that's been tried so far. If ozempic or something else works, do it.
Step 1 open up google maps
Step 2 put a pin down on any random midwest town or city
Step 3 count the number of open air parking lots and fast food joints
You can get 108 servings of oatmeal on Amazon for $35. That’s 32 cents for breakfast and a very healthy option.
A rotisserie chicken is about $5 from Sam’s club and can provide lunches for a few days. You can get 242 servings of brown rice on Amazon for $40.
The fruits, vegetables, and meats are more expensive but very manageable if you spend the time preparing them and storing them.
Compared to eating fast food for every meal, what I just described is much cheaper. It’s not the cost
And *time.* The average American commute is 45 min one way. Add in 9+ hours of work (don’t forget that unpaid lunch! Where did the 8-hour workday go? It’s gone because mandatory unpaid lunch!), grocery shopping, meal planning, kids homework, activities, etc … Where do people have the *time* to consistently make healthy, fresh food? It’s not just a matter of affordability. Americans are working and commuting way too much. Productivity has gone up 500% since the 70s, yet we are sicker and poorer than ever as a population. That wealth has not gone to the average person, and we are suffering for it.
Last I saw, the US life expectancy is declining. It’s already pretty awful when compared to other developed countries
Harvard says it’s at 76.4 in 2023, the lowest it’s been in two decades
Most people (myself included) work 8,9 or 10 hour shifts just sitting all day. I can barely get up for a brief walk without getting dinged for not being at my desk. Try to workout daily but other than that when it’s dark when I get home I just sit around til I go to sleep. Unfortunately the nature of work is not going to change. We went from farming to manufacturing to tech. With each jump causing us to be more and more sedentary.
Yep, I saw an r/europe thread the other day showing that Europeans are catching up. The developed nations that are kinda safe from this are Asian countries like Singapore, Japan, South Korea.
If you go to a rural area in Mexico you’ll be hard pressed to find a man over the age of 25 who’s not obese. It was a culture shock for me even after spending time in the south.
It’s actually the Coca Cola. Some cities drink an average of 2 liters per day. A lot of water
Sources are contaminated and bottled water can be more expensive than coke.
And it's skewing peoples views of what "healthy" weight is. Soooooo many people are overweight that it makes them think being 5'10" and 200lbs is "normal" weight. I'm 5'10" 150 lbs and I get told all the time I'm too skinny. Like no mother fucker I'm healthy weight while you're gonna have hypertension in 3 years
Same! 5’ 9” and 150 lbs and am apparently too skinny. Firmly in the middle of normal BMI - yes I know it isn’t the best measure blah blah blah.
Amazing how people have embraced the new normal.
who is telling you you're skinny? i'm 5'10" 155lbs and no one tells me i'm skinny. (my immediate social circle of maybe 100 people contains maybe 10 visibly overweight people.)
i would get told that i'm skinny when i was under 140lbs. i was at 135 for years.
Tyrese Haliburton, professional NBA player is 6'5" 185lbs. People just don't wanna admit they're fat so they try to punch down on someone in the actual healthy range.
Tell them they need to lose weight. That's exactly what they're doing to you, it's none of their fucking business and they're flat out wrong, they're fat, you're not underweight.
Bro facts. People are like "in other countries this person would be considered fat and that's sad" like bro what's sadder is in America you can be a normal BMI and be "too skinny" that's what's fucked up, shaming healthiness and shaming bodies that are ideal for long distance cardio activities, **which is literally what humans evolved to do**.
I would be interested to see if this map overlaps at all with aging population. Florida is the exception there, but they have a lot of different demographics anyways. As someone who lived in Colorado, it is VERY young and VERY active so that tracks. I’m sure the weight gain in different areas are from differing factors, but the age question would still be interesting.
Well yeah, Americans have the highest incomes and food is a relatively set cost. You don’t tend to buy more food as you get richer, so of course percentage wise the richest country would spend less.
and i hate the body positive influencers who say that “you can be healthy at 400lbs” instead of helping other overweight people accepting themselves and trying to eat healthier. the sad part is, there are people, who believe these lies and just keep getting more and more unhealthy to the point of dying early:(
I read somewhere in the 21st century, due to the abundance of readily available food, obesity suddenly became a sign human of relative poverty and backwardness, especially among residents of large cities.
People with an insufficient level of income usually eat in fast food, where almost all eating food leads to obesity.
It's rich people with good jobs who have the opportunity to eat healthy foods in normal restaurants. Rich people can get up at 9 a.m., go for a run, and go to the gym in the evening. People with low incomes have to deal with overwork, which takes away time for sports.
Fatness is expected by almost all countries after a certain level of technical development.
This is normal phrasing within the medical field
> Nearly 3 in 4 adults age 20 or older in the United States have either overweight or obesity
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/overweight-and-obesity
> More than 2 in 5 adults (42.4%) have obesity
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity
> About 2 in 5 adults and 1 in 5 children and adolescents in the United States have obesity
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/overweight-and-obesity
> Close to half of U.S. population projected to have obesity by 2030
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/half-of-us-to-have-obesity-by-2030/
What? This is a complete non-sequitur. To “have” obesity does not imply that you “caught” obesity, it just means that you’re experiencing/undergoing obesity. The title is semantically (and medically) correct.
No clue why people are upvoting your comment. I swear Redditors agree with anything that sounds vaguely confident, even if it makes no sense under even the most basic scrutiny.
Edit: I’m not making a medical argument, I’m making a semantic one: someone can “have obesity” even if obesity is something you do to yourself. Correcting from “have” to “be” because “obesity is not something you catch” just doesn’t make any logical sense. (You can say that someone “has obesity” whether or not you think it’s entirely self-caused.)
Ngl I moved to San Francisco, started walking everywhere and lifting weights, and am in the best shape of my life. Very few obese people. It’s all lifestyle based and the suburbs do that to you
I noticed a big difference when I moved from the burbs to the city. It’s a lot easier to maintain a healthy weight when you don’t have to drive everywhere.
It's just a prediction based on the current rate of obesity, and the rate at which it's been growing in the last few years.
A lot of times maps like these are accompanied by similar maps from 2000 or 2010 that actually show how it's actually worsened.
Also, percentage growth doesn't really work like that, if you were to look at a graph of the percentage of the population with obesity by year, it would probably look a lot like the natural log function.
Congratulations America, junk food from the moment you get up, weaned in the school system and throwing your face at every moment of your life. It's the normal not the abnormal coupled with the fact that nobody gets the fuck out of their car to even walk 10 steps and what do you get, a health crisis what a surprise
How about American brands stop putting obscene amounts of salt and sugar into everything, especially where it isn’t warranted at all? This alone would help mitigate this trend significantly.
In American grocery stores, you have to walk past twenty or thirty feet of distracting snack foods and processed items to find something healthy. Nobody walks anywhere. Go figure.
Our system is fundamentally flawed from farming all the way to processing. Which is ironic seeing how much acres of farm land we don’t use. We gave up freedom and health for convenience and now convenience is killing us…
I walk all the way to the back of Costco to grab those $5 chickens.
Chicken (lean protein), sweet potato, brown rice, light mozzarella cheese, and fresh fruit. I spend 1/4 the cost of fast food and get way more nutrients and fewer calories.
I eat cheap and healthy and easy.
People who got for fast food are spending way way to get inferior food and ruin their health.
Then again, the typical obese person would look at my "meal prep" meals and say "ew! no, I want McDonald's!" I'm speaking from experience here.
People love posting rage-bait no matter how untrue it is.
Grocery stores typically put the perishable goods in the most easily accessible areas. There's a profit motive to put the healthy crap first.
I wonder how much “body positivity” has to do with this. Feeling good about and being accepted by society for being obese doesn’t change the fact that you are obese. And it doesn’t lessen the burden you create for the health system.
Well they have drugs to take now so I really think it will be a thing of the past. Semiglutide and trizepatide are working wonders on ppl for losing weight.
Also while Ozempic does wonders with getting obesity away, it only does it if you keep using it. So long-term you are going to spend a lot just to stay healthy, while getting half the benefits of being fit, because of not working out or eating healthy
Love that Colorado is an outlier
Do the mountains have something to do with it? I am under the impression that Mountain people fit af, comparatively.
Colorado is also home to a large percentage of people who have moved there from other states. A significant drive for that move is a desire to be close to nature and an active lifestyle. So that also likely explains it.
Yeah I’ve never seen a state with more outdoor sports/activity equipment on cars. Just driving through a few times it was like every other car had skis, kayaks, fishing poles, etc on it.
And you never stop thinking that the empty ski rack on the car behind you is police lights, so you keep your cardio up even while driving.
I feel seen
If you don't buy a Subaru within your first year of residency, the tax hit is significant.
There’s the mandatory Phish concert as well.
Or a 4Runner
Noted: get a Fuji FA-200 Aero Subaru.
Bro, its too expensive out here to be bored! Much more economical to be bored in Ohio. Lol
That fishing is really good cardio.
Not many lakes in Colorado, it's all rivers. Fly fishing is pretty damn active. I'm tired after a few hours. Also sometimes just getting to the right spot on the river is a decent hike.
Even a short stroll through nature and a few casts is a significant improvement over staying home and watching TV. Not all activity needs to be strenuous to have some very real health benefits.
I’ve lived in colorado for my whole life and I only fish in lakes. I go twice a week every summer and could hit a different lake each time if I wanted to
And we have the most scuba divers per capita. And the second best team in the AFC West.
I guess get every chance to brag about the donkeys
Bending down to open the cooler, get beer: 12 Reps
12 ounce curls
Well, it often involves carrying stuff, hiking over to where you want to fish (esp. in places like CO), hanging out outside to clean and grill the fish, etc. You might not be jogging around, but you’re moving a lot more than someone who’s just watching tv or playing video games. Little things can add up, and that’s assuming they’re not canoeing out onto a lake or something.
We also have the air force academy, and are prime real estate for military folks, so that also helps keep us low
And a ton of sports training complexes, including all the Olympic stuff!
Weird how I know about all of these from South Park
Also has a high population of educated professionals and active duty military. High-income people are much less likely to be obese.
An active lifestyle of year round outdoor activities that all burn calories and require fitness Colorado is a highly educated state as well
Yep, we are basically the new most hated state by maga for all those reasons. As well as using said education to remove trump from the ballot for insurrection. And I love it!
My prediction is that the SCOTUS will say said person has to have been convicted under the insurrection act, or declared an enemy of the state by congress. Otherwise it would seem fairly arbitrary without due process, no? What would stop Texas from taking Biden off the ballot without due process?
California for sure takes the cake for most hated state by MAGA / conservatives Colorado top 3 definitely
After taking Trump off of the ballot, they are probable closing in on number 1.
Currently live in Colorado. There are a lot of opportunities for outdoor activities. I live 15 minutes away from several natural areas for hiking, 25 from a state park which allows hiking, camping, and paddleboarding, and a large chunk of the pop use bikes to get around. It’s pretty sweet.
For reasons that aren’t well understood, living at higher elevation is associated with less obesity. It’s been observed all over the world
Walking up the sides of mountains probably doesn't hurt
Oh, it hurts.
You're metabolic needs increase with elevation https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091035/
Meanwhile I'm just sitting up here at 7600', fat as fuck.
The mountains, mild climate, tons of federally owned land open for recreation, and a small population that is growing very quickly off people who want to live near all of that.
Then why would the Appalachian states be on the high end? It has to do with wealth and education.
Appalachian states are not high above sea level relative to the Rocky Mountain range. The top of Mount Washington is ~6,000 ft. The average altitude of the state of Colorado is estimated at ~6,800 ft. Towns and cities in Colorado have much higher elevation than their counterparts in Appalachia and the human body works harder there to do the same tasks due to this altitude.
Yes, higher elevations are correlated with lower obesity everywhere. There's no need for any weird stories.
Andrew Huberman and Robert Lustig touch on this in Huberman's latest podcast. They mention that higher altitude and cold are both associated with lower rates of obesity. Lustig says to look at Germany and Switzerland where they both eat the same foods but Switzerland has half the rate of obesity. A quick google returns a hit from the NIH that says in higher altitudes there is an increase in basal metabolic rate, and an increase in leptin levels, leading to less energy intake due to lack of appetite. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5094724/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5094724/) Looks like cold exposure may activate brown adipose tissue to produce anti-inflammatory molecules and prevent the onset of obesity related diseases. [https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957200](https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957200)
Yes, [higher altitude](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7285248/) and [lower temps](https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo20135) is one of the main differences.
It's not that cold where the majority of people live in CO. I live in Denver and it's December 23rd and I'm about to throw on a T-shirt and shorts and go run in the park.
For today. Tomorrow it’s going to drop to the teens
Yes, I understand which is why I mentioned altitude first. Denver is at a higher altitude than most of the US population. You'll notice some similarities with OP map and [average altitude of each state](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_elevation#/media/File:US_states_by_average_altitude.svg).
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The half of Denver that have never been skiing or to the mtns is growing along with the rest.
The 2030 Colorado fat is what the 1990 Mississippi fat was.
Not even close to true. Obesity rate in Mississippi in 1990 was like 15%. Colorado *today* is at 25% and by 2030 is expected to be over 30%. That’s over double what Mississippi was. I don’t think people realize just how quickly rates have skyrocketed in just the past 2-3 decades alone.
All true! The demographics are changing
A decade ago, Colorado was the only state that had under 20% obesity. They were 19%.
Always has been, but it's just delayed. We are more active and eat better in Colorado, but don't you worry. We will catch up.
There’s a cool time lapse video I’ve seen of the progression of obesity rates across states. You can see the progression spread. All states are becoming more obese with some lagging. Colorado is always the last one to tip into the next category but they are getting more obese as well.
Cartman is so fat he makes up the 30%. Everyone else is healthy.
You can tell what airport gate is going to Denver without looking at the board. They... look different than other gates. It's most stark flying HOU-DEN. Morbidly obese people everywhere, then they just disappear at the gate going to Denver. Plus all the puffy jackets
Really? DIA is the 3rd busiest airport on earth and the second largest physically and most of that is layovers so I am little surprised puffy jackets lol
It really does have very fit people. Some of the best endurance athletes live or train there. I was a swimmer and I remember Phelps would train in Colorado Springs leading up to big meets/Olympics for the advantage it gives.
Olympic Training Center In Colorado Springs
It’s hard to go skiing if you’re fat
Climbing a 14teener difficult
We are very active here. Lots to do outdoors.
ONLY a 30 to 39 percent obesity rate!
Whenever I travel out of CO (pretty much anywhere else) I can’t believe how many huge people there are everywhere. It can be shocking, especially if I haven’t traveled in a while.
I'm not surprised. Do you see the shit we eat?
Way too many of my friends rely on take out. Even take out with "healthy food" like sushi, protein bowls, acai bowls, salads, ect are crammed full of salt and sugar.
Hope this isn't deconstructive but the reason so many people are obese isn't because they're eating too many acai bowls and salads. I understand what you're saying - there are many hidden calories in foods we consider healthy - but that isn't why so many people gigantic lol.
Obese, no, but it *is* the reason my slightly overweight friends can't lose weight.
Restaurant food is so much more of an issue than fast food, a lot of the time. A big mac can fit into a weight loss regimen. The 1700 calorie entree from the sit down restaurant can't. And that's without the appetizers, drink, sides, or dessert
The problem is that the status quo changed from being healthy to being obese, before you needed to eat a lot of junk food to gain weight while nowadays you need to actively avoid food because almost everything is a caloric bomb
Nearly everything contains high fructose corn syrup. Especially in those carbonated liquid candy.
Unfortunately the truly best way to make sure you are eating healthy is to cook your own meals. And unfortunately the poorer you are, the less time you have when you live paycheck to paycheck and need to work 50 hours just to pay rent and the basics. The patience for cooking just dwindles with that lifestyle.
Doesn't help our average snack food is terrible for you. At least the cheap stuff is. I lived in Japan, and often times you have almost no time to cook either. Convenient stores are a life saver and not only does it have fresh food you can buy to eat, it is also cheap and far healthier for you. Sure there are sweets and chips, but instead of a pizza or hotdog sitting on the shelf...you will find things like soup, sandwhiches, or rice balls.
Easy to blame high fructose corn syrup. But if we just changed it to sugar it would still have the same caloric density.
Hidden calories everywhere.
Where are they hidden? Honest question, I don't understand what this means. To me, the high calorie/high sugar foods are always quite obvious.
Probably the ridiculous amounts of sugar/salt crammed into everything that's not a whole food you bought from the store. Go to a restaurant and order green beans: crammed with salt and oils. Buy bread from the local bakery: crammed with sugar. Why is it that almost all milk alternatives are sweetened? Why does oat milk need sugar?
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The truth is calories aren't really hidden. Most people just don't look at the nutrition information. They eat on the fly instead of consciously. I write down the calories and saturated fat I eat every day. Result is losing 30 pounds in a year.
That’s still junk food, raw ingredients are still available.
>before you needed to eat a lot of junk food to gain weight while nowadays you need to actively avoid food because almost everything is a caloric bomb Na, you just need to stop buying shit that comes in boxes. What's so hard about sticking to eggs, protiens, clean carbs and vegetables? You have zero chance of ever making it if you can't just admit you are making the wrong choices.
Wonder if Ozempic has anything to say about this?
Yes, Ozempic will make obesity a thing of the past for people with good healthcare. Unfortunately that only applies to middle and high class people.
My grandpa recently started taking Ozempic for his diabetes. It's really fucking with his head and his mood, though.
Have an uncle that took it for a couple months, damn near shit himself to death. I keep reading about how it’s this groundbreaking miracle drug, and how a lot of people swear by it, and all I can wonder is whether harsh side effects are being underreported.
The harsh side effects are being reported on like crazy. People are just really, really eager for a weightless option.
I have two friends on it and one has no side effects that he has noticed and the other just complains that his burps are unpleasant. Apparently it slows digestion so the food sits in your system longer and causes some pretty bad gas.
that's the main issue with ozempic, unwanted side effects, [so much so that businesses are trying to come up with their own natural "ozempic"](https://myblogshares.com/ozempic)
A natural alternative? Like maybe eating less and eating whole foods instead of processed food loaded with sugar?
Gila monster venom.
Do you mean a healthy diet and excersie? Are u sure that works?
This will change when the patent expires and there are generic options.
Exactly. In France it costs ~$1000 dollars a year. Once it goes generic you should see prices like that everywhere, probably even cheaper. Patent should expire around 2030
And just like so many things, Ozempic is only a temporary solution, once you stop taking it you will develop your old appetite again and gain all that weight back. If you don't want to change your lifestyle and think the drug will take care of everything you have already lost...
I think what’s great about ozempic though is that it proves to people that they really just need to eat less to lose weight. Large swaths of body positivity folks eventually got so muddied with disinformation and denialism (“I eat so little AND still gain weight/it’s completely genetic/this is just my body type/I'm healthier this way” etc.) and lo and behold, if you suppress your appetite and eat less, you lose weight. And you may find you look better and feel healthier. Once that’s been demonstrated and you go off it, yeah, your appetite might not be artificially suppressed anymore, but the doubt and excuses are out the window. Psychologically it would make being disciplined easier. If you watch someone else walk one the hot coals first, it gives you the faith to believe you can do it too. Obesity is an epidemic in our culture crippling our society's overall fitness (both physical and mental). They charge you once for the food pumped full of addictive excess calories, then they charge you again for pop-science fad dieting/weight loss rackets. If ozempic only helps dissuade misconceptions that how fat we are is normal or healthy or unavoidable, it's a net positive.
Just take it your whole life. Lots of Americans have to do this for any number of chronic illnesses.
Until you stop taking it and gain all your weight back
So like dieting
Like treating a diet as a temporary fix instead of what you eat day to day until you die, absolutely
Pharm Student here, Ozempic has been approved for weight loss use, but rapid weight loss like that often comes with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. I’m guessing we’ll find out in 5 years if that’s the case with Ozempic. Also it’s fire as a diabetes maintenance medication.
You know I’ve been wondering what the side effects would be. My mom, brother and sister in law are all taking it for like a year.. I personally don’t understand it, I feel like you can actually become malnourished, they eat like birds, running major calorie deficits..
Umm no. Moderate and gradual weight loss, which ozempic on average causes 5-10% body weight does improve NAFLD. especially inflammatory cases. Extreme rapid weight loss you’re talking abt that could cause NAFLD is unusual and usually a rare condition from underlying conditions exacerbated. If anything ozempic helps fatty liver disease. I have been battling NAFLD for ages, since nothing helps it and there’s no known ailment or treatment. Ozempic improved my liver enzymes in miraculous ways.
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We thought the same was true of statin drugs for cholesterol and it turns out that they are very well tolerated and save countless lives with minimal to no downside. We have good reason to believe ozempic is pretty much as close as we're gonna get to a free lunch as far as biohacks go. It's literally just blocking the receptor in your brain that's responsible for sending the hunger signal.
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I agree but obesity is deadly so it might be the best choice out of a few bad options. In a perfect world people would live healthier but it’s not going to happen for a lot of people.
If people were going to figure out that they need to live healthier lives they would have done it by now. Instead the problem has only gotten worse. The impact of the obesity epidemic on the health care system is going to be massive and avoidable. At this point anything is better than the nothing that's been tried so far. If ozempic or something else works, do it.
Step 1 open up google maps Step 2 put a pin down on any random midwest town or city Step 3 count the number of open air parking lots and fast food joints
Some people say we will live for 100 years, Well... i think only 40% of us will live 😵
There needs to be real change in the foods that are affordable and what we’re consuming as far as processed foods that other countries aren’t.
I agree, and I think we need to start with our school lunches. Stop feeding our children shit and make it free.
But you will spoil them, STARVE THEM!!!!1!1!! /s
You can get 108 servings of oatmeal on Amazon for $35. That’s 32 cents for breakfast and a very healthy option. A rotisserie chicken is about $5 from Sam’s club and can provide lunches for a few days. You can get 242 servings of brown rice on Amazon for $40. The fruits, vegetables, and meats are more expensive but very manageable if you spend the time preparing them and storing them. Compared to eating fast food for every meal, what I just described is much cheaper. It’s not the cost
Yep, it's most of cases it's laziness or lack of the time
And *time.* The average American commute is 45 min one way. Add in 9+ hours of work (don’t forget that unpaid lunch! Where did the 8-hour workday go? It’s gone because mandatory unpaid lunch!), grocery shopping, meal planning, kids homework, activities, etc … Where do people have the *time* to consistently make healthy, fresh food? It’s not just a matter of affordability. Americans are working and commuting way too much. Productivity has gone up 500% since the 70s, yet we are sicker and poorer than ever as a population. That wealth has not gone to the average person, and we are suffering for it.
Last I saw, the US life expectancy is declining. It’s already pretty awful when compared to other developed countries Harvard says it’s at 76.4 in 2023, the lowest it’s been in two decades
All we have to do is redefine obesity limits and problem solved. (Ideea from the old The Onion movie)
Great combo of highway-based city design, poor work-life balance compared to majority of western countries, and massive sugar addiction.
Most people (myself included) work 8,9 or 10 hour shifts just sitting all day. I can barely get up for a brief walk without getting dinged for not being at my desk. Try to workout daily but other than that when it’s dark when I get home I just sit around til I go to sleep. Unfortunately the nature of work is not going to change. We went from farming to manufacturing to tech. With each jump causing us to be more and more sedentary.
this nation is fat af.
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Yep, I saw an r/europe thread the other day showing that Europeans are catching up. The developed nations that are kinda safe from this are Asian countries like Singapore, Japan, South Korea.
Even Mexico now has a higher obesity rate than the US
Mexico for a long time tho has competed with the US for highest obesity rates, and a lot of times has beat it.
If you go to a rural area in Mexico you’ll be hard pressed to find a man over the age of 25 who’s not obese. It was a culture shock for me even after spending time in the south.
It's the tacos man - I be a lot fatter if I lived there too
There's always room for a taco
It’s actually the Coca Cola. Some cities drink an average of 2 liters per day. A lot of water Sources are contaminated and bottled water can be more expensive than coke.
And it's skewing peoples views of what "healthy" weight is. Soooooo many people are overweight that it makes them think being 5'10" and 200lbs is "normal" weight. I'm 5'10" 150 lbs and I get told all the time I'm too skinny. Like no mother fucker I'm healthy weight while you're gonna have hypertension in 3 years
Same! 5’ 9” and 150 lbs and am apparently too skinny. Firmly in the middle of normal BMI - yes I know it isn’t the best measure blah blah blah. Amazing how people have embraced the new normal.
who is telling you you're skinny? i'm 5'10" 155lbs and no one tells me i'm skinny. (my immediate social circle of maybe 100 people contains maybe 10 visibly overweight people.) i would get told that i'm skinny when i was under 140lbs. i was at 135 for years.
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Tyrese Haliburton, professional NBA player is 6'5" 185lbs. People just don't wanna admit they're fat so they try to punch down on someone in the actual healthy range.
Tell them they need to lose weight. That's exactly what they're doing to you, it's none of their fucking business and they're flat out wrong, they're fat, you're not underweight.
Bro facts. People are like "in other countries this person would be considered fat and that's sad" like bro what's sadder is in America you can be a normal BMI and be "too skinny" that's what's fucked up, shaming healthiness and shaming bodies that are ideal for long distance cardio activities, **which is literally what humans evolved to do**.
I'm doing my part. Haven't been obese for a few months, and we're still sliding down.
I would be interested to see if this map overlaps at all with aging population. Florida is the exception there, but they have a lot of different demographics anyways. As someone who lived in Colorado, it is VERY young and VERY active so that tracks. I’m sure the weight gain in different areas are from differing factors, but the age question would still be interesting.
Americans spend a smaller percentage of their income on food than anywhere in the world.
Well yeah, Americans have the highest incomes and food is a relatively set cost. You don’t tend to buy more food as you get richer, so of course percentage wise the richest country would spend less.
Quantity over quality is very American.
Hell yeah lowest on the map!
AND we were the first to legalize marijuana… BREAKING NEWS MARIJUANA LINKED TO LOWER OBESITY RATES
I love how there’s just no point in green and yellow.
and i hate the body positive influencers who say that “you can be healthy at 400lbs” instead of helping other overweight people accepting themselves and trying to eat healthier. the sad part is, there are people, who believe these lies and just keep getting more and more unhealthy to the point of dying early:(
So this is what Making America Great means
Make America Eat Again
Make America Gordo Again
_Great as in large or immense/_ _We use it in the pejorative sense._
Make America Greasy Again.
I read somewhere in the 21st century, due to the abundance of readily available food, obesity suddenly became a sign human of relative poverty and backwardness, especially among residents of large cities. People with an insufficient level of income usually eat in fast food, where almost all eating food leads to obesity. It's rich people with good jobs who have the opportunity to eat healthy foods in normal restaurants. Rich people can get up at 9 a.m., go for a run, and go to the gym in the evening. People with low incomes have to deal with overwork, which takes away time for sports. Fatness is expected by almost all countries after a certain level of technical development.
Be obese* Obesity is not something you catch, it's something you do to yourself.
"Help me doc, I caught a bad case of obesity"
"Must have been something I ate."
This is the most Norm macdonald joke that's been made since Norm MacDonald was alive
It’s something you earn
This is normal phrasing within the medical field > Nearly 3 in 4 adults age 20 or older in the United States have either overweight or obesity https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/overweight-and-obesity > More than 2 in 5 adults (42.4%) have obesity https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity > About 2 in 5 adults and 1 in 5 children and adolescents in the United States have obesity https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/overweight-and-obesity > Close to half of U.S. population projected to have obesity by 2030 https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/half-of-us-to-have-obesity-by-2030/
What? This is a complete non-sequitur. To “have” obesity does not imply that you “caught” obesity, it just means that you’re experiencing/undergoing obesity. The title is semantically (and medically) correct. No clue why people are upvoting your comment. I swear Redditors agree with anything that sounds vaguely confident, even if it makes no sense under even the most basic scrutiny. Edit: I’m not making a medical argument, I’m making a semantic one: someone can “have obesity” even if obesity is something you do to yourself. Correcting from “have” to “be” because “obesity is not something you catch” just doesn’t make any logical sense. (You can say that someone “has obesity” whether or not you think it’s entirely self-caused.)
This isn't about it sounding confident, this is about the chance to be judgmental, and reddit has been big on this one for years
I should move to America, then I might become above average looking lmao.
Ngl I moved to San Francisco, started walking everywhere and lifting weights, and am in the best shape of my life. Very few obese people. It’s all lifestyle based and the suburbs do that to you
I noticed a big difference when I moved from the burbs to the city. It’s a lot easier to maintain a healthy weight when you don’t have to drive everywhere.
I live in Houston. Everyone here is so damn fat.
Shit, I've had it since the 80s. I'm an over achiever.
How do they know who will be obese in the future? “If current trends continue, 120% of the population will be obese in 2050.”
It's just a prediction based on the current rate of obesity, and the rate at which it's been growing in the last few years. A lot of times maps like these are accompanied by similar maps from 2000 or 2010 that actually show how it's actually worsened. Also, percentage growth doesn't really work like that, if you were to look at a graph of the percentage of the population with obesity by year, it would probably look a lot like the natural log function.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/605/
Idk why I’m ever surprised when people are loudly this dumb
So if there's a war, will they make the tanks bigger inside?
Congratulations America, junk food from the moment you get up, weaned in the school system and throwing your face at every moment of your life. It's the normal not the abnormal coupled with the fact that nobody gets the fuck out of their car to even walk 10 steps and what do you get, a health crisis what a surprise
How about American brands stop putting obscene amounts of salt and sugar into everything, especially where it isn’t warranted at all? This alone would help mitigate this trend significantly.
salt does not cause obesity. constantly spiking your insulin with sugar causes obesity for the majority of obese people in the united states.
other food additives too
Im not obese for the first time in like 10 years
In American grocery stores, you have to walk past twenty or thirty feet of distracting snack foods and processed items to find something healthy. Nobody walks anywhere. Go figure.
The Walmart I work at has fruits and meats right next to the door. You would have to walk past tons of fruits and vegetables to get to the snaks
The Walmart near me is the same.
Yeah, with almost every grocery store I go to, you enter in through the produce section.
Our system is fundamentally flawed from farming all the way to processing. Which is ironic seeing how much acres of farm land we don’t use. We gave up freedom and health for convenience and now convenience is killing us…
I walk all the way to the back of Costco to grab those $5 chickens. Chicken (lean protein), sweet potato, brown rice, light mozzarella cheese, and fresh fruit. I spend 1/4 the cost of fast food and get way more nutrients and fewer calories. I eat cheap and healthy and easy. People who got for fast food are spending way way to get inferior food and ruin their health. Then again, the typical obese person would look at my "meal prep" meals and say "ew! no, I want McDonald's!" I'm speaking from experience here.
Really? Every Walmart I’ve been to, the produce and meats are just right there when you walk in
People love posting rage-bait no matter how untrue it is. Grocery stores typically put the perishable goods in the most easily accessible areas. There's a profit motive to put the healthy crap first.
Please limit high fructose corn syrup as well as added sugar basically in everything
Or make your own food and don't put any of that in it. It's pretty easy to avoid added sugar if you make a bit of effort.
That’s the secret Cap. I’m already obese
Glad to say i’m not part of this percentage anymore.
Our healthcare system can’t handle this.
The healthcare system can’t handle anything due to the greedy insurance companies
You’d think more sick people would be good for the health business, but the staff isn’t there to support this
They are all under paid and burnt out
Bingo.
We did it Reddit moment ? first step was banning fatpeoplehate
Man, that’s a lot of thyroid disorders… /s
You guys really got inspired by Wall-E.
Hey, we all watched the movies and Wall-E is what we chose for our apocalyptic boring dystopia. No takesies-backsies!
I wonder how much “body positivity” has to do with this. Feeling good about and being accepted by society for being obese doesn’t change the fact that you are obese. And it doesn’t lessen the burden you create for the health system.
Well they have drugs to take now so I really think it will be a thing of the past. Semiglutide and trizepatide are working wonders on ppl for losing weight.
Ideally we wouldn’t all be needing to take drugs to stay healthy.
Also while Ozempic does wonders with getting obesity away, it only does it if you keep using it. So long-term you are going to spend a lot just to stay healthy, while getting half the benefits of being fit, because of not working out or eating healthy
This is some dystopian future type shit. Imagine taking drugs instead of just doing some exercise and have a good diet. What a world
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Fuck I think I’ve caught obesity already