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We're past peak obesity

2024-10-04

Relative to trend US obesity is down about 7 percentage points (~20%) among graduates (the group most likely to be using GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic).

Incredible stuff.

We may have passed peak obesity: https://t.co/GRWsl6E52V https://t.co/9zTEelFxVr pic.twitter.com/a3zjjIUSnX

— Rob Wiblin (@robertwiblin) October 4, 2024

Increasing obesity has been a fact in the United States for my entire life and it isn't any more. Pretty incredible.

Obesity trends

2023-08-24

In the past 5 decades, the obesity rate in the United States has never gone down two years in a row, paraphrased from the Odd Lots Episode linked above.

Totally astounding. I'd be on that changing over the next two years.