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by StanislavPetrov 542 days ago
Obesity rates have roughly tripled in the last 60 years.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity-adult-17-18/Est...

The data isn't hidden or lied about. If you think the data is fudged, go pick up a high school year book or photo album from the 1950s or 1960s and take a look at the young people.

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I didn't say it was fudged.... mmmm fudge... I was pointing out that the article is pretty useless for determining if it's obesity or other for seeing why they're changing the requirements.

Also as the gpgp was talking about... in many places obseity is purely based on weight / height ratio... which doesn't bring muscle into account. So all I can say is I can't really say what factors are involved.