Over past three decades. obesity rates increased fourfold among children and doubled among adults
More than 1 billion people worldwide are now living with obesity, with rates among children increasing fourfold across a 32-year period, according to new research.
Analysis of the weight and height measurements of over 220 million people from more than 190 countries shows how body mass index (BMI) changed across the world between 1990 and 2022.
Approximately 1,500 researchers contributed to the study by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). Published in the Lancet, it found that over the period obesity rates increased fourfold among children, and doubled among adults.
I don’t think it’s very nice to mock someone for gaining weight because you disagree with them saying it’s easy to lose weight.
I gained a lot of weight because I was depressed and suicidal. Cooking is one thing I enjoy, and eating is something I enjoy even more. Because of my mental health difficulties I was stuffing my face, and I gained what I consider to be an unacceptable amount of weight.
I was able to lose all of that rather quickly by just not eating carbohydrates and sugars. There are many names for this, keto, Atkins, low-carb.
It was not my intention to mock, just to push back on what I see as ignorance. “I did it, so everybody can do it” is a pretty ignorant attitude in my eyes. It also comes off as: being fat is a choice for everybody. And that always comes with: it’s ok to bully people into weight loss.
I’m sorry you felt uncomfortable with your body at a time when you were already having mental health difficulties and giving yourself comfort in trying times. That sounds rough.