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Re:Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity... by Retric on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @01:50PM (#20749778)
Young people still tend to be significantly less overweight. https://www.stateofobesity.org/obesity-by-age/

However, you do see more overweight people on modern films than in the 50’s. What’s really odd some characters where supposed to be noticeably overweight, but they don’t seem that way to modern eyes.

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Re:Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity... by lostapathy on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:22PM (#20750223)
Curious - do you have examples handy of characters like you described who were "overweight for the time" but don't seem so today?
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Re:Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity... by krustyburger on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:09PM (#20750774)
Even going back just to the 90s, characters like George Costanza were meant to look noticeably overweight but look fairly typical by 2019 standards. And Homer Simpson weighed a very specific 239 pounds, a weight that seems much less extreme now.
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Re:Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity... by flukus on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:51PM (#20753739)
On the extreme end there was John Candy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001006/mediaindex?ref_=nm_phs_m...), he used to be "the funny fat guy" but if he were to cameo (and be alive) today I don't think he'd stand out like he used to.
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Re:Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity... by Mountain_Skies on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:08PM (#20753801)
Lumpy in Leave It to Beaver. Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). This one is really interesting when you compare the 1971 character to that from the 2005 version. If there was a new version made today, the might need to make him even bigger.
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Re:Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity... by masonic on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:47AM (#20755800)
In the film, "To Sir, With Love", the boy called "Fats" would be probably average nowadays, even in the U.K.
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Re:Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity... by tomjen3 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:40PM (#20751104)
I haven't seen Friends, but supposedly Fat Monica had to be made fatter and fatter as she appeared over the years.
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