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This chart https://statbase.org/data/mex-prevalence-of-obesity-among-adults/ https://statbase.org/data/mex-prevalence-of-obesity-among-ad... Says that obesity

This chart https://statbase.org/data/mex-prevalence-of-obesity-among-adults/ https://statbase.org/data/mex-prevalence-of-obesity-among-ad... Says that obesity was shooting up in Mexico before that. The obesity rate doubled in the 15 years before NAFTA. After NAFTA the rate doubled again in about 30 years. I can't really see any obvious change after 1994. Are these numbers incorrect, or were you meaning some other metric of obesity or obesity epidemic?

stevenwoo 23d ago
Good point. I should have written something like correlated with urbanization and other factors. But ever increasing percentage is a correlation. The USA obesity rate has stabilized for a year iirc, but those of Mexican heritage have some unique vulnerabilities to obesity as well so a multi factorial issue.