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25 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 4 Oct \ parent \ on: For the first time in decades, the obesity rate has fallen. charts_and_numbers
Maybe l shiur reiterate.
People dont have the money to spend eating out as much anymore.
Im not saying they are eating healthier in any way.
I get that. And I get that food has become more expensive.
But I think it's a wild conclusion to say this is the reason for peak obesity.
Expenditure for food at home only rose to as high as they were in 2017. Americans spend more on food because they eat out more. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=76967
You're right in a sense that it's not nothing. But hard for me see to see food prices rising in 2021/2022 to cause weight loss in 2023.
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Americans spend more on food because they eat out more.
You have to be careful with that conclusion. The data shows Americans spent more, but fast food prices increased, so we don't know if they ate more from seeing that they spent more.
But hard for me see to see food prices rising in 2021/2022 to cause weight loss in 2023.
Weight loss itself takes time and is only going to be recorded at some sort of medical check-up. If you start eating out less in 2021-2022, it's perfectly reasonable that it would take until 2023 for a doctor to record that you are no longer obese.
Right, but that would primarily effect lower income people, wouldn't it?
Or, is the idea that it's college educated people specifically who realized that fast-food is too expensive now?
There could be a story where everyone reduced their fast food intake, but college educated people substituted to healthier alternatives, while non-college grads switched to cheaper but similarly unhealthy foods.
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