[ekianjo]

The real question is why so many people are obese in 2024 in the US while it was a fraction of the population 50 years ago? And other countries have by far not been affected by the same trend. So effectively something is making people really sick on the US.

[cthalupa]

It's simply not true that this trend isn't impacting other countries. Mexico is only 6% behind the US. The UK is 16%. Obesity is rising rapidly in South Korea - more than doubled in adult males between 2009 and 2019.

America pioneered the obesity epidemic, but a huge chunk of the rest of the developed world is doing their best to catch up.