Fat acceptance?

The number of Americans who died of heart disease with obesity as a factor has *tripled* since 1999.

Obesity now affects 42% of all Americans, and 20% of children.

Those who glorify obesity, or denounce efforts to reduce it, are dangerous:https://t.co/iveZSHedBi

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 18, 2023

Washington Post:

The number of U.S. adults who died of heart disease and whose death record cited obesity as a contributing factor was three times greater in 2020 than in 1999, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

The finding came from analysis of death certificates in a database maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 281,135 deaths from heart disease linked to obesity in that time range, the researchers said, and the death rate tripled from 2.2 deaths per 100,000 people to 6.6 deaths per 100,000.

The increase in obesity-related deaths contrasted with a steady decline (nearly 18 percent) in heart disease deaths overall from 1999 to 2020.

Since their obesity rate is so high, it was unsurprising to find out that blacks, and especially black women, were hard hit:

The mortality rate from heart disease related to obesity was higher among the Black population than among any other racial group. Overall, the deaths also were more common among men than women, although Black women had a slightly higher mortality rate than Black men.

Original story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/18/obesity-heart-disease-cardiac-death/

Archive link: https://archive.vn/roUIX

If Neil Postman was alive today, he’d write a book called “Eating Ourselves to Death”.