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Jeremy Horpedahl

Kinda crazy that over roughly this same time period, the mortality rate from heart disease fell by 60% cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/m

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It’s really insane how fast obesity rates have grown in the US. Tripled in a single generation. The mainstream approach to diet and exercise is incredibly broken. usafacts.org/articles/obesi

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Jeremy Horpedahl

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I just did another calculation. Between 1999 and 2019, the age-adjusted mortality rate for heart disease fell 40%

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🪄statins🪄

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Peter Hague PhD

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Couldn’t smoking be the common variable? Cigarettes keep you thin until they kill you!

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@achalaugustine

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Obese and alive longer ?

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Better drugs

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When big pharma is the good guys.

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Could this be explained (at least partially) by improvements in quality of care and education? Especially if someone who is obese has a scare, and decides to reverse course, preventing them from dying of heart disease?

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Smoking is very bad.

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Legionnaire's disease, sometimes Pontiac fever

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In no small part because of this

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Smoking. But also smoking can be an appetite suppressant, many who quit smoking end up replacing nicotine with food.

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