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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by wongarsu on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:25AM (#46588160)
For good reason.

That'd be a BMI of 47. There isn't a lot of statistical data for such high BMIs, but [1] lists prevalence of BMI>40. In Germany 1.2% of men and 2.8% of women had a BMI over 40 in 2011, in the US it was 5.6% and 9.7% respectively in 2016. That's nearly four times as many as in Germany.

1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7078951/

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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by tom_ on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:44AM (#46589969)
The US population (~350m) is about 4 times that of Germany (~85m)...
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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by wongarsu on Monday January 12, 2026 @11:06AM (#46590300)
Which has to be a pure coincidence, since the reported numbers are relative to population size. We could conclude that there are 4x4=16 times as many people with such high BMIs in the US, but that is not that useful
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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by blitzar on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:13PM (#46591353)
Several studies conducted during the last 50 years have shown that lower intelligence is associated with a higher body mass index (BMI).
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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by rootusrootus on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:53PM (#46592608)
So this is why SE Asia is kicking the crap out of the US and Europe?
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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by rootusrootus on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:53PM (#46592602)
> In Germany 1.2% of men and 2.8% of women had a BMI over 40 in 2011

How does that compare to, say, Japan? Why is Germany so much fatter?

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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by danielscrubs on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:09AM (#46597492)
Worse food and less fat shaming.
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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by cthalupa on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:55AM (#46598338)
But prior to GLP-1s, obesity rates were growing rapidly in Germany. Doubled over 3 decades - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15706...

Most of the industrialized west is following very similar growth curves here to the US. America just got their first. Even Asia isn't immune - Korea has been following similar trends, as have parts of southeast asia, etc.

I suspect the prevalence of GLP-1 class drugs will halt this trend before the rest of the world catches up, but without them or similar drugs, I would have bet that 50 years form now much of the rest of the world would look just like America

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