US obesity rate hits 40% up from 30% in 2000 and on its way

...to 50% by 2030.

I get that BMI is a crude measure, but assuming my math is correct you’d have to be over 200lbs. at 5’9’’ to meet this definition.

To what should one attribute every increasing obesity rates?

Click here for link at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-27/one-in-10

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Yet we constantly hear we're plagued by "food insecurity". - PWK2 2020-02-29 09:58:37
Glad I could help * - NDFlyer 2020-02-29 00:02:08
Sugar=obesity * - Cal 2020-02-28 16:56:51
- Sugar is the enemy * - wcnitz 2020-02-28 18:17:34
  - This is the correct answer. * - cincysubdomer 2020-02-29 06:31:39
  - In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, - The Holtz Room 2020-02-28 19:20:03
  - Sugar creates alcohol * - DakotaDomer 2020-02-28 19:12:01
    - But rain makes corn * - doolinbanjos 2020-02-28 22:57:59
    - Technically, the yeast create alcohol. Sugar is just food - TAR 2020-02-28 20:04:15
- sugar (legalized crack), wheat everything, carbs - SEE 2020-02-28 17:10:49
  - We have been eating wheat for millennia and the biggest - Jeash 2020-02-28 20:15:52
    - Have you tried switching to diet soda? - PWK2 2020-02-29 10:00:29
      - I have, but that stuff messes with my gut. - Jeash 2020-02-29 16:12:10
  - No cholesterol in white bread - ProV1x 2020-02-28 19:28:01
Absolute shit food options - SEE 2020-02-28 16:56:43
- Is fruitarianism your destiny? * - The Flash 2020-02-29 11:15:44
- "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." - NDFanSince81 2020-02-28 17:21:23
  - Were we really designed to eat plants? - SEE 2020-02-28 17:46:40
    - I saw a patient this week who has been on the carnivore - goirish89 2020-02-28 17:53:47
Cross and I tried out the new KFC doughnut chicken - The Holtz Room 2020-02-28 16:32:52
- I ask for extra high glucose corn syrup for my DP at KFC * - K-Rock 2020-02-28 17:16:17
BMI is an absurd measure - atl_irish 2020-02-28 16:24:14
- Yeah - we're being over run by well muscled - 88_92WSND 2020-02-29 22:27:39
- “You’re not fat - you’re just big boned” * - Father Nieuwland 2020-02-29 09:14:29
- BMI is garbage * - Raoul 2020-02-28 21:00:57
  - Every linebacker in the NFL is obese, per BMI. * - PWK2 2020-02-29 10:02:17
    - So is Mike Trout (based on 6’ 2” 235 lb program listing) * - Father Nieuwland 2020-02-29 10:13:19
      - What percentage of the population do we imagine exceeds... - FL_Irish 2020-02-29 12:49:58
        3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 - Father Nieuwland 2020-02-29 12:59:02
- Waist to Height ratio is generally better ... - NDFanSince81 2020-02-28 17:14:22
- I was pushing 'overweight' via BMI when I was 6-4 and 210 - gordonbombay 2020-02-28 16:50:10
  - Probably works ok for shorter people - gozer 2020-02-29 00:00:32
  - If a person has any kind of muscle mass - TerramarIrish 2020-02-28 16:59:42
Where are they? Of the people I see each day, based on looks - Father Nieuwland 2020-02-28 16:01:58
- Obesity rates are highly variable by state - Allumeuse 2020-02-28 16:49:59
  - NYC always seems an outlier with these measurements - goirish89 2020-02-28 17:58:02
    - From what I’ve seen Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn are - beancounter 2020-02-28 18:13:41
      - Affluence has a strong correlation IMO. - Irish Tool 2020-02-28 19:47:46
      - Bingo. Look at the Bronx. - EricCartman 2020-02-28 18:34:12
    - Dude. Have a milkshake. * - The Holtz Room 2020-02-28 18:07:10