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The obesity epidemic is the result of the elites' misguided war against smoking

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· Jul 7, 2021

The second mystery is how quickly the shift occurred. In 1975, there wasn’t a single country in the world with an obesity rate higher than 15%. In most countries, obesity was steady at about 10% until around 1980, when it suddenly began rising.

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5:50 PM · Jul 1, 2022Twitter Web App

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smoking is why you had such a rapid recovery from COVID

Daniel

@growing_daniel

Jul 1

I don't smoke!! (I'm one of the elites) But also I'm still coughing from covid, probably because my lungs are so weak and unchallenged

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I'd be interesting to see how this tracks with rates of sitting on one's ass all day.

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fwiw

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· Aug 31, 2021

The non-linear relationship between body fatness and BMI will tend to make observed obesity rates accelerate even if mean body fat increases at a constant rate and the variance remains constant (BF variance v. likely has increased, but less than BMI would naively suggest)

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