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Re:Biohacking Lite by dpcx on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:29PM (#23501564)
That's because, at least anecdotally, many more people are overweight than underweight, so "being healthy" involves weight loss more than weight gain.
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Re:Biohacking Lite by kekebo on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:37PM (#23501650)
Not only anecdotally, according to the CDC "prevalence of obesity was 42.4% in 2017~2018" in the US[1].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

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Re:Biohacking Lite by tkzed49 on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:39PM (#23501665)
This may be true in a statistical sense, but I think it's important to not "explain it away" and instead realize that it is an important societal issue. This doesn't really apply to the original post, but it's important for us as a society to support both health conditions, and not just the more common one.
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