American Obesity Continues to Skyrocket

Obesity continues to skyrocket in the United States, according to a new CDC report on the prevalence of severe diabetes. The number of women with the condition is increasing at a faster rate than men; women are nearly twice as likely to be severely obese. Extreme obesity has been connected to numerous dangerous health conditions. The rise of the condition in America can be traced to the 1990s – and, according to the CDC, there has been almost a 25% increase over the last decade.

America’s Obesity Epidemic

In recent years, Americans have witnessed a concurrent phenomenon of embracing obesity as beautiful, praiseworthy, or even desirable. Criticizing people for being overweight is condemned as “fat shaming” by “fatphobic” people who oppress marginalized overweight citizens. Doctors must be cautious in addressing weight issues lest their patients erupt in irate defensiveness. This attitude is compounding an epidemic far more deadly than COVID-19.

Americans are being engorged with cheap, subsidized, ultra-processed foods. High fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated fats are essentially waste products converted to dining options using flavorings and appetite stimulators. The obesity rate for America now stands at 40%: Japan’s is approximately one-tenth of that rate. Are the Japanese fat-phobic, and are there lessons Americans can learn from their culture and diet?

The increase in consumption of processed foods has accompanied a rather sharp drop-off in the popularity of physical exercise in America, itself a politically contentious issue: left-wing ideology condemns active gymgoers as oppressors of those marginalized by their weight or body type. Fat people are not grotesquely obese, to be relegated to circus acts (as society would have judged a century ago). They are to be celebrated for their inner beauty; encouraged to take pride in their ill health “identity.” […]

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