Talk:Epidemiology of obesity

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Moved

Moved to make more room for content. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:53, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Obesity rates among men and women

In the US, as of 2007, 33% of men and 35% of women are obese.[23] The rates however are as high as 50% among African American women.[24]

I recommend changing the previous statement to: "In the US, 28% of men and 34% of women are obese, with the obesity rate being as much as 50% among African American women."

All of this information can be found in reference 24, making reference 23 unnecessary. Basically, reference 23 can be removed and replaced with reference 24. This makes additional sense because reference 23 is not a full-text article (just an abstract), whereas reference 24 is a full-text article.

68.63.209.192 (talk) 17:08, 1 April 2009 (UTC)AmateurObesityResearcher[reply]

Sure, please feel free to be bold and make the changes. TastyCakes (talk) 17:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

More coverage of United Kingdom data needed

I live in the United Kingdom where, for most of the zeros, one can hardly escape hearing about the obesity epidemic. I wondered whether there would be a Wikipedia article entitled "obesity epidemic" but it seems to get redirected here. True, in recent years, scare stories about the obesity epidemic seem waning, but I still feel that a lot more coverage of the obesity epidemic in the United Kingdom is needed in this article (unless one starts a new article entitled "Obesity epidemic"). By the way, I am aware that we already have an article on childhood obesity. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:10, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is also the article obesity. But feel free to expand on the epidemiology data regarding the UK.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:22, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well I have just put in that the United Kingdom now has the second highest rate of obesity in the world as this was claimed on the television news on the night of January 6 2013 - I think it was on the ITV news, but if any one is skilful about finding website references to either the BBC or ITV news, s/he might be able to put in the reference for this. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 14:39, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thousands of years

I'm confused about the opening sentence:

For thousands of years obesity was rarely seen.

Why the "thousands" scale? Why not "millions"? Are we trying to avoid the implication that obesity wasn't prevalent in prehistory? ~ Booya ^Bazooka 02:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Excess Deaths in the United States

The 300.000,00 figure has been notoriously changed to 26.000,00 by CDC's Katherine Flegal and her team, so I just made this minor observation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Normann Cohn (talk • contribs) 19:51, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Contextualise Lead

"In 2013, an estimated 2.1 billion adults were overweight, as compared with 857 million in 1980."

The global population of the world in 1980 was 4.5 billion, while it was 7.2 billion in 2013, information which seems important in contextualizing this growth, which mitigates the effects a bit. Obviously under OR I can't change this, but if anyone had a source which took this data into account, I believe the article would be improved.

JoshMuirWikipedia (talk) 16:58, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Obesity in Pacific Islands

The most recent version of this page claims that the obesity rate in Nauru is 94.5% -- is this meant to say that the 94.5% of the Nauruan population is overweight? As far as I know, obesity statistics demonstrate a rate of ~60%. Hesitant to make an edit since I'm unable to find many consistent and credible studies within the last several years, but it seems more likely that the current article conflates "overweight"/"obese" than the rate truly being that high. Same applies to discussion around obesity in other Pacific Islands/associated states. Aria242 (talk) 18:22, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]