The whole nation is, but yeah.

You should actually do the math on that. Once you count driving time as a health and financial liability, those numbers are going to add up fast.

I moved here last fall and was told at my first Dr appt that I am "significantly obese, per BMI."

I'm in really good shape, run every day, gym every other day, don't have a gut, eat right.

I was then told by the same Dr. "don't worry - BMI is bullshit for people who are actually active."

So...yeah. Sorry for adding to the statistical problem?

Sure it's valuable, but not valuable enough to outweigh the inherent unprofitability of working in the same town I live in; nor to outweigh "my fair share" of the costs of changing things to work that way.

What if you could get exercise AND transport yourself simultaneously?

It’s not just being sedentary. I’ve been a butcher most of my life and and I can’t even tell you how often I get a customer that I get chest pains from just looking at them, tell me the want the fattiest cut of this, or put some extra fat on that, or just buy straight up fat.

Same. I’m 6’ 200, lift weights at a pretty high level five days a week, have recently ran a 5K in around 21 minutes, and box/train Muay Thai at a pretty consistent rate……last year at my employer health screening they told me I was borderline obese 😂😂😂

> Can’t fight, too busy eating and being fat.

You and most of the population. It’s sad because it’s true.

The splitting is accurate in my experience too, though it’s still more than I’ve gotten for peds and gerontology. In my program we get either peds or maternity, not both, and the community health “clinical” was us packing medical equipment in a warehouse… Was med surg 2 considered high acuity? I’m in a BSN program as well. I definitely have my gripes with it, but I graduate this year so it’s almost over.

Yeah true, I guess once everyone got overweight, they got sick of it and made it accepted. Funny how that works. Damn I’m definitely overthinking but that’s why suddenly I started to see overweight guys and girls in popular groups. And it all started happening when the body positivity movement started. Before then if you were overweight you were ostracized or bullied by popular kids.

This map groups everything into only five broad colors. For all we know, Vermont could be .1 better than us, and within the error margin.

But as others mentioned this is from 23andme so is probably not a reliable source of data anyway.

Wow, only one greenish state in the entire country.

Burning fossil fuels is no excuse to not also take some time to use your legs (and arms etc). u/GKnives, have you ever heard of this thing called "personal responsibility"?

Seems like there's a societal trend to making cities and towns more walkable. I'm excited for the future if that's so.

Anyone who disagrees with the above comment: yes, it's probably not the most perfect measure, especially for individuals but it's a very quick measure and let me ask you one very important question:

One town has an average BMI of 23.5. Another town has an average BMI of 28.4. In most other ways they're comparable (similar age range, poverty level, etc) Which town do you expect to have a lower death expectancy? Which town will have more health problems overall? What is the quickest way to determine this factor? Looking at average weight alone is also a good indicator, but seeing how different people groups have different average height (especially different sexes), the BMI isn't that much harder to get information for and provides just a little more information.

I don't see the problem with BMI at all. I see much bigger problems with IQ testing (which are culturally biased) and Flesch Kincaid (which is complex, very difficult to measure and ill understood and greatly misinterpreted) and pretty much every psychometric test ever. BMI is a quick and dirty way of determining which places have weight problems.

Rejecting it will just make tracking this stuff harder, less intuitive, and people more likely to embrace a more extreme version of "healthy at every size" which turned from actually pro-active health stuff for overweight people to just apologia for passive unhealthy lifestyles.

See a doctor to determine if you're actually overweight. BMI is fine.

Like the oxide heating packs? Why? It's going to be so warm.

Ahh thank you, didn’t see that, it’s still depressing to know that on average Americans are overweight.

We used ho hear about rising obesity a lot. Then the majority became obese and decided they didn't want to feel bad about it so everyone stopped talking about it.

I work for a certain municipality in NH, so that is my concentration at the moment.

Using your legs is communism. Only by burning fossil fuels can you truly live free.

OP said it's from 23andMe. As someone else noted there are better sources like CDC. That said I am sure they generally tell the same story.

Aiming for a certain area?

Also note that it is an average not median so there could be a few normal weight people and one heavy as hell person to skew the data.

You should bring glove warmers.

It's not that hard to imagine. Obese can be a 30lb difference from a healthy weight. That's basically some people's pack weight on extended trips. I have done the 48 and the AT. And it's not about strength and energy like obese is an option, good is delicious and generally it's more of a time issue.