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    23 hours ago

    Dated a Jamaican woman back in the day, 5’10", maybe 110lbs, perfectly healthy, did nothing to keep her weight down. People can be fine looking like this model.

    This story seems so odd to me, like crazy overreach in service of a fine goal. Meh, what do I know. Fat people were rare when I was young. What’s now considered “skinny” was perfectly normal in the last century.

    In the early 1960s, roughly 13% of people were considered obese by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. Recent figures suggest that a current national obesity rate closer to 43%.

    In addition, nearly 10% of all Americans were morbidly obese during the 2017–2018 survey, compared to less than 1% in 1960–1962. Childhood obesity rates tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to more than 19% by March 2020.

    https://usafacts.org/articles/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-united-states-over-last-50-years/