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https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight

Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975.

In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese.

39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight in 2016, and 13% were obese.

Most of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.

39 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2020.

Over 340 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 were overweight or obese in 2016.

Obesity is preventable.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975. In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese. 39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight in 2016, and 13% were obese. Most of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. 39 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2020. Over 340 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 were overweight or obese in 2016. Obesity is preventable.

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Now, let's look at a graph of what people have been eating over that period of time. Which lines show a big change that just so coincidentally starts right when the obesity epidemic starts?

https://files.catbox.moe/qksmwt.png

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5304a3.htm

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I don't think normal people were eating dirt before 1974...