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GamblingMan420 t1_j1zrv40 wrote

Reply to comment by Lemonio in TIL that on average women live five years longer than men, and that by age 85 around 67% of the population is female in the US. by Successful-Depth-235

No that’s incorrect.

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Lemonio t1_j1zte30 wrote

If you google it 1 in 3 men in the US are overweight vs 1 in 4 women, so why is this incorrect?

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GamblingMan420 t1_j1ztot7 wrote

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db360.htm

Because a simplification of something like that is stupid. Also those numbers are incorrect.

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Lemonio t1_j1zvyog wrote

My numbers were for overweight

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity Obesity is a different statistic

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GamblingMan420 t1_j1zwjr9 wrote

And obesity is what is much more statistically significant to health problems than being overweight. A great portion of professional and amateur male athletes are technically overweight. Basically none of them are obese. Obesity kills people, being overweight does not.

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Lemonio t1_j1zy88c wrote

Obesity has a bigger effect on risk of death, but being overweight increases risk of death as well

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GamblingMan420 t1_j1zywn6 wrote

You’re not wrong. However I still believe that curbing obesity is more important than curbing people that are overweight. BMI is a flawed measurement because it doesn’t account for muscle mass, therefor associating increased mortality with an overweight BMI is a flawed correlation; in my opinion. On the other hand, obesity is qualified by an excess of fat as well as exceedingly high BMIs. I know plenty of “skinny fat” people with more health problems than my friends that lift weights and would be considered overweight by BMI standards. This is anecdotal, but you can be overweight and healthier than a normal weight person. You cannot be obese and healthier than a normal weight person in almost all scenarios.

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