[throwitaway1235]

According to the most recent CDC data, 42% of Americans are classified as clinically obese. Are we to believe nearly half the country is suffering from severe psychological trauma?

I blame the intersection of capitalism and food, the normalization and expansion of horrific fast food choices solely because it is profitable and advertising is cheap.

[inglor_cz]

Yeah, this is a fishy correlation. While I believe that some people may soothe their bad feelings with food, we don't observe any sort of obesity epidemics in the cohorts of survivors of serious crises (Yugoslav civil wars etc.)

[im3w1l]

Mental health is down, and obesity is up. It doesn't follow that they are related, but it seems they could be.

[LeoNatan25]

Don’t forget the sensationalist left that has proliferated the idea of “fat” “shaming”, where merely pointing out an unhealthy lifestyle is considered rude, insulting, shaming or elitist.