1.5% of the U.S. population is still over 4 million people, that's a huge market.
I mean, you have two markets and one is about 47 times the size of the other.
If your goal is to minimize the total number of health problems in your country, it would make sense to throw more efforts at a problem that affects 47 times more people, given that everything else about the problems is about equal. We are not comparing cancer to heart disease here. We are comparing two problems that are two sides of the same coin.
Re:Biohacking Lite
by NikolaeVarius on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:06PM
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Market for...
Market for converting people with obesity problems into people without obesity problems.
While I agree that there is way more to "being healthy" than just not being overweight/underweight, I think it isn't a bad idea to approach this in the priority order. Solving the issue of being overweight is much simpler and much more impactful to the overall public health than trying to go after more rare and difficult problems.
0. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm
1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/underweight_adult_15_16...