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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon - The Washington Post
https://apple.news/ARmTXefoJTciLTMaIwUY0Hg
“When he was in medical school in Pakistan, he was taught that a typical adult man weighs 70 kilograms — about 154 pounds. Today, the average man in the United States weighs about 200 pounds. Women on average weigh about 171 pounds — roughly what men weighed in the 1960s.
In 1990, 11.6 percent of adults in America were obese. Now, that figure is 41.9, according to the CDC.”