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Re:A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past by loktarogar on Thursday April 02, 2020 @07:41PM (#22765018)
The majority of the world not living 200k years in the past won't die to obesity, either.
Re:A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past by jacobush on Thursday April 02, 2020 @07:46PM (#22765044)
A majority in the US will.

Edit:

maybe it's not in fashion to listen to the CDC in these times, but:

"Obesity is a serious concern because it is associated with poorer mental health outcomes, reduced quality of life, and the leading causes of death in the U.S. and worldwide, including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancer." [0]

Emphasis mine.

0: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/causes.html

Re:A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past by rootusrootus on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:10AM (#22766261)
Except "associated with" is just another way of saying correlated, not the cause of. A lot of people would live healthier lives, both mentally and physically, if we gave up on trying to fight obesity itself and just spent all our effort getting people to exercise.
Re:A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past by zodiac on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:46PM (#22766156)
"Leading cause" means that among causes of death obesity would be the plularity, not the majority
Re:A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past by loktarogar on Thursday April 02, 2020 @08:36PM (#22765327)
They won't die to it because they don't have it - while the percentage of people who are obese in the US is higher than other parts of the world, it's still not a majority.
Re:A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past by smabie on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:56AM (#22766390)
No the majority of people will die from, surprise, being old. Being obese might be correlated with dying a little less old, but the cause of death is still, fundamentally, being old.
Re:A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past by sfj on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:32AM (#22766752)
Obesity is a body type, not a disease
Re:A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past by naeemtee on Thursday April 02, 2020 @09:02PM (#22765464)
No, jacobush, the majority of people in the US will not die of obesity.