This looks more like the spread of GLP-1s. Food insecurity has been just as high in the recent past while the obesity rate was increasing.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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Nope that only got big 2 years ago.
I guess there is a second downwards bend that might be explained by ozempic.
GLP-1 use for obesity started significantly increasing from about 2020. 4% of Americans were (officially) taking them by 2024. Add on the unofficial numbers, plus the fact that weight loss with the drug still takes months to years, and it probably is a very big factor, if not the factor.
Communism is when starve
When we do it it's to cure obesity
Also, even when food is abundant in countries like the US and obesity is rampant, people are still kind of starving for nutrients because that slop that makes you fat ain't quality food.
Remember when ppl kind of pretended to care abt fatphobia
Yeah, what happened to that?
God I hate the fatphobia in this county. Body weight is a symptom, not a cause. And the symptom is never "laziness". Even if it is a lack of exercise (which it rarely is) then there is a reason that person is not exercing.
Speaking as a tubby disabled person who tries their damnedest to stay in shape despite the boulder I'm pushing up hill.
That's not even getting into what we even consider a good weight go be. How nothing is universal health wise (what is good for the daisy is poison for the cactus). How Hollywood has shape our idea of health. I could go on.
I think most of it has to do with food availability. I get groceries every 2-3 weeks because I have to drive out of the city or else I pay nearly double.
End up getting a lot of canned goods for that reason, and if I buy fresh produce I have to use it before the week is up or else it goes bad.
The food we have is also not very filling? I know many people who work in hospitals walking ~12-17k steps a day who still struggle with their weight.
Our food just sucks, every time I visit family overseas I shed weight off like crazy and I don't restrict myself at all when I'm there, either.
I've started fasting lately to cut some fat, but I'd be lying if I said money had nothing to do with it
I justified nicotine to myself because a $10/week habit made me snack less and skip meals sometimes.
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