Why has America Become So Overweight & Unhealthy? - Dr. John Lewis

Why is America so Fat? - Dr. John Lewis
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Answer: it hasn’t. You are literally just rehashing talking points of more than two decades ago. “Overweight” is predicated on a 25 BMI cutoff value, which doesn’t remotely correlate to a fat % of body fat. Most people are downright lean at that BMI, it overlaps with the fit population entirely (as does the 30 BMI cutoff for “obese”, which is as absurd). Additionally, I’m guessing you’d be averse to admitting that demographic shift (more Asians, Hispanics) has made the average height of the national shrink, on paper - this will negatively impact the national average BMI/“obesity” rate. What’s more, no two ethnicities have the same % of body fat per BMI. In comparison to European countries, which have higher rates of starch, sugar, and alcohol consumption, worse rates of vigorous physical activity, lower rates of gym-going, etc, America is downright fit, and I think you know that (we dominate the widest array of international sporting competitions, including the Olympics). White Europeans have more body fat per the same BMI than do white Americans, and what’s more, the rate of obesity at the more advanced range of values (45+) that ACTUALLY correlates more with excess fat and metabolic unhealth is not different between the US and any other notable western country (Canada, Australia, the UK, etc). The U.S. simply has larger proportions of ethno-racial minorities, and it oversamples ethnic minority groups and the poor. No other country does that. No other country remotely scrutinizes its nutritional culture and metabolic health remotely as much as the U.S. does in the first place.
The truth is, this is a demoralization tactic. It’s friendly to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries to push this lie that “Americans (only Americans? Really?) are fat”, and on the flip side Europeans stand to promote their food exports effectively (ie) if they can lie about American “food quality” by stupidly invoking national average BMIs as if they mean something. Simultaneously, because the rhetorical environment of modern media is incessantly anti-American, facts about European unhealth vis a vis the U.S. are hidden or not popularly acknowledged, while facts of American unhealth are amplified, misrepresented, or even just made up to fuel an anti-American confirmation bias that effectively harms American soft power and cultural desirability.
In any event, a supermajority of all western countries has an overweight and obese rate 65% or more using the current dumb BMI cutoffs. That’s not indicative of actual fatness or anything real. That’s indicative of how stupid and deranged obesity epidemiology has become since it started in earnest back in the 1990s.
Stop lying, bro, and stop the anti-American propaganda