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In reply to the discussion: I'm going to make the Covid / Flu comparison... [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,848 posts)Those all matter. Especially the less obesity.
Last year, sometimes when I saw a notice of some young person dying of Covid, I'd do a Google search for that person. Invariably, it was someone who from the photo posted was clearly overweight, more likely obese. I am NOT fat shaming. I've been overweight, borderline obese myself. And last summer I finally decided to take off the excess weight and got my BMI down from 31.6 to 24.3, meaning from the beginning of obese to the top end of normal.
In this country we have gotten so used to so many of us being overweight or obese, we've forgotten what normal looks like. Go back and look at high school yearbooks from the 1960s and you'll see. The very few overweight students are almost never in the full obese category. Virtually everyone is a normal weight.
I was overweight/borderline obese for several decades, and I'd come to see that as normal for me. I'm very happy I've been able to make the change. I truly hope it is permanent.