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Re:Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a short... by janekm on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:52AM (#18977229)

What do you mean obviously we don't. Obesity in France is at 24%, closely behind the US and the UK. And obesity is rising in countries around the world as access to "western" diets increases.

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Re:Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a short... by bildung on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:59AM (#18977750)

The obesity rate is the US is at over 36%, so at quite a distance to France [1].

The overall rank of all countries by body mass index places the US at #9 and France at #43. [2]

Evolutionary psychology is fine for producing plausible-sounding explanations, but I have not yet heard a single case where it actually produced something of scientific value.

Sure, aeons of scarcity obviously made us like food. But as can be seen with this example, culture often plays a much bigger role.

[1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/29-most-obese-countries-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass...

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Re:Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a short... by Fricken on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:56AM (#18978099)

Obesity rates in both France and the US are rising at similar, alarming rates. In the mid-90s the US surpassed 24% obesity rates, and at that time France was at less than 10%.

This is crazy. What are we doing? Nobody chooses to be fat, except maybe sumo wrestlers and a few other strange outliers.

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Re:Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a short... by bildung on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:32AM (#18978372)

One successful approach seems seems to be education at schools and banning junk food there: "From 2012 to 2015, the number of overweight and obese children has dropped by 12%." https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/14/amsterdam-so...

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Re:Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a short... by rlue on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:11AM (#18978211)

Here is a chart from Wikimedia, showing the incidence of obesity by country in OECD countries in the period 1996-2003:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_obesity#/media...

Rates vary from 3.2% (Japan) to 30.6%. The median value is somewhere around 13%. Clearly there is more at work than evolutionary biology/psychology.

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