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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by GhettoMaestro on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:07AM (#21312389)
> Plentiful nutrition which has led to 90% of the population of the USA being overweight, obese, or overfat is another potential culprit.

Yeah I’m gonna need some data to believe that one. 90% obese / overweight? I’m calling bullshit.

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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by javagram on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:23AM (#21313321)
https://torontosun.com/2017/07/25/90-of-us-men-are-overfat-a...

Edit: I should have said adults in the parent post though, this statistic doesn’t apply to kids.

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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by GhostVII on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:21AM (#21312545)
Looks like it's closer to 70% [0], for adults at least.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm

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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by dekhn on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:20AM (#21312527)
Yes, it's more like 35-40%.
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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by effie on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:05PM (#21315986)
In 2014, 73% of men, 67% of women.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...

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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by dekhn on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:46PM (#21316443)
I'm going off this page: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db288.pdf

Please note the table you showed the 73% is combination of "overweight" and "obese" while the row that shows obese is the same number as my citation.

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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by dekhn on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:18PM (#21317506)
I don't understand why people are downvoting me when I'm literally quoting the stats from the agency that defines this. If you're downvoting, can you at least reply to provide some technical signal so I can update my knowledge?

EDIT: I misread the original message and thought it was referring to just obesity, not obesity/overweight.

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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by kurtisc on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:41PM (#21318349)
The original post included 'overweight'
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