By Andrew Price
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The report also notes the relationship between income and weight: “35.3 percent of adults earning less than $15,000 per year were obese compared with 24.5 percent of adults earning $50,000 or more per year.” Part of the problem there is that a salad costs more than a Big Mac. So that’s something to remedy. More cycling and walking would help, too.
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To be fair, BMI is a terrible calculation for overweight/obese people, it doesn’t actually tell you anything about the person’s body fat level or overall health, so practically speaking this data is kinda meaningless, not that americans dont need to get out more, its just a more nuanced problem than the BMI-istas will lead you to believe.
End corn subsidies, it’d be a good start.
To be fair, in simplistic terms only the very muscular have an erroneous high BMI so unless we have a lot more muscular people now then in years passed we have a concern. Not to mention there are errors on the other side as well, so as a tool for comparison large populations and determining trend lines BMI does function adequately.
I believe that while BMI is not a good indicator to determine the individual’s general health it does give a good enough snap shot of the nations general health.