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https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...

    Nearly 1 in 3 adults (30.7%) are overweight.2
    More than 2 in 5 adults (42.4%) have obesity.2
    About 1 in 11 adults (9.2%) have severe obesity.2


    About 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (16.1%) are overweight.3
    Almost 1 in 5 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (19.3%) have obesity.3
    About 1 in 16 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (6.1%) have severe obesity.3

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Thank you, here's more information about Mexico's obesity problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Mexico

I don't understand the argument proposed here. Americans should ignore what is an enormous (no pun intended) health crisis because other countries are slightly worse? It doesn't matter what Mexico is doing or not doing, the current figures for obesity are staggering

I think this is less a whataboutism of "But Mexico is worse!", and more general eye rolling at another breathless, unquantified hate-on-America article.

The article even admits it doesn't know if this is actually a problem or not. FTA:

> There are no statistics that cover bodies donated or bodies offered to programs, no official way to tell how many Americans who fall into the overweight or obese categories have been turned away like McPherson.

> I think this is less a whataboutism of "But Mexico is worse!", and more general eye rolling at another breathless, unquantified hate-on-America article.

It's an article by an american outlet on an american issue.

Hell, it's a five years old article by an american outlet on an american issue.

> The article even admits it doesn't know if this is actually a problem or not. FTA:

The article literally tells you it's a problem that occurs in the first paragraph. What you're quoting says it doesn't know the full breadth of the problem, because there's no data collection on the subject.

"There is no data" != "there is no problem".

The article can tell you anything. The article fails to back up the claim. Go ahead and show me where the article supports its claim.

> It's an article by an american outlet on an american issue.

The article never proves it's an issue.

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