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Another Vice click-bait "America is bad for (x) reason" article. FYI - Mexico is the most obese nation in the world, surpassing the United States in both Adult

Another Vice click-bait "America is bad for (x) reason" article. FYI - Mexico is the most obese nation in the world, surpassing the United States in both Adult and Child obesity.

yazzku 4y ago
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti... Nearly 1 in 3 adults (30.7%) are overweight.2 More than 2 in 5 adults (42.4%) have obesity.2 About 1 in 11 adults (9.2%) have severe obesity.2 About 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (16.1%) are overweight.3 Almost 1 in 5 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (19.3%) have obesity.3 About 1 in 16 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (6.1%) have severe obesity.3
- bubblematrix 4y ago
  Thank you, here's more information about Mexico's obesity problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Mexico
  - Bakary 4y ago
    I don't understand the argument proposed here. Americans should ignore what is an enormous (no pun intended) health crisis because other countries are slightly worse? It doesn't matter what Mexico is doing or not doing, the current figures for obesity are staggering
    - dymk 4y ago
      I think this is less a whataboutism of "But Mexico is worse!", and more general eye rolling at another breathless, unquantified hate-on-America article. The article even admits it doesn't know if this is actually a problem or not. FTA: > There are no statistics that cover bodies donated or bodies offered to programs, no official way to tell how many Americans who fall into the overweight or obese categories have been turned away like McPherson.
      - masklinn 4y ago
        > I think this is less a whataboutism of "But Mexico is worse!", and more general eye rolling at another breathless, unquantified hate-on-America article. It's an article by an american outlet on an american issue. Hell, it's a five years old article by an american outlet on an american issue. > The article even admits it doesn't know if this is actually a problem or not. FTA: The article literally tells you it's a problem that occurs in the first paragraph. What you're quoting says it doesn't know the full breadth of the problem, because there's no data collection on the subject. "There is no data" != "there is no problem".
        dymk 4y ago
        The article can tell you anything. The article fails to back up the claim. Go ahead and show me where the article supports its claim. > It's an article by an american outlet on an american issue. The article never proves it's an issue.
mtgx 4y ago
JasonFruit 4y ago
It's obviously click-bait, yes. But they were pretty restrained, for Vice, on the "America is bad" angle, and they kept to the numbers. I'm tired of the tenor of "Look at the stupid Americans!" in the general run of click-bait articles too, but this was better than I expected.
arbuge 4y ago
> Mexico is the most obese nation in the world, surpassing the United States in both Adult and Child obesity. That certainly does not mean that we don't have an obesity problem here. As a publication with a primarily US audience, you would expect Vice to focus primarily on America.
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Another Vice click-bait "America is bad for (x) reason" article. FYI - Mexico is the most obese nation in the world, surpassing the United States in both Adult and Child obesity.

yazzku 4y ago

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti... Nearly 1 in 3 adults (30.7%) are overweight.2 More than 2 in 5 adults (42.4%) have obesity.2 About 1 in 11 adults (9.2%) have severe obesity.2 About 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (16.1%) are overweight.3 Almost 1 in 5 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (19.3%) have obesity.3 About 1 in 16 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (6.1%) have severe obesity.3

bubblematrix 4y ago
Thank you, here's more information about Mexico's obesity problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Mexico
- Bakary 4y ago
  I don't understand the argument proposed here. Americans should ignore what is an enormous (no pun intended) health crisis because other countries are slightly worse? It doesn't matter what Mexico is doing or not doing, the current figures for obesity are staggering
  - dymk 4y ago
    I think this is less a whataboutism of "But Mexico is worse!", and more general eye rolling at another breathless, unquantified hate-on-America article. The article even admits it doesn't know if this is actually a problem or not. FTA: > There are no statistics that cover bodies donated or bodies offered to programs, no official way to tell how many Americans who fall into the overweight or obese categories have been turned away like McPherson.
    - masklinn 4y ago
      > I think this is less a whataboutism of "But Mexico is worse!", and more general eye rolling at another breathless, unquantified hate-on-America article. It's an article by an american outlet on an american issue. Hell, it's a five years old article by an american outlet on an american issue. > The article even admits it doesn't know if this is actually a problem or not. FTA: The article literally tells you it's a problem that occurs in the first paragraph. What you're quoting says it doesn't know the full breadth of the problem, because there's no data collection on the subject. "There is no data" != "there is no problem".
      - dymk 4y ago
        The article can tell you anything. The article fails to back up the claim. Go ahead and show me where the article supports its claim. > It's an article by an american outlet on an american issue. The article never proves it's an issue.

mtgx 4y ago

JasonFruit 4y ago

It's obviously click-bait, yes. But they were pretty restrained, for Vice, on the "America is bad" angle, and they kept to the numbers. I'm tired of the tenor of "Look at the stupid Americans!" in the general run of click-bait articles too, but this was better than I expected.

arbuge 4y ago

> Mexico is the most obese nation in the world, surpassing the United States in both Adult and Child obesity. That certainly does not mean that we don't have an obesity problem here. As a publication with a primarily US audience, you would expect Vice to focus primarily on America.

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