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Die Anzahl der übergewichtigen Menschen in der Schweiz hat sich verdoppelt
In der Schweiz sind 43% der Erwachsenen übergewichtig, wobei deutlich mehr Männer betroffen sind als Frauen.
Wie nehmen Sie dieses Problem in der Schweiz wahr? Ich finde das so seltsam, wenn man bedenkt, dass ich in anderen Ländern und in der Schweiz (oder zumindest Zürich -Gebiet) gelebt habe, scheint alles so … fit. Oder zumindest im Vergleich zu anderen Orten nicht fett.
The number of overweight people in Switzerland has doubled
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Von ptinnl
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A see a lot of middle-aged and elderly, mainly men, with obious overweight. From my experience, young people take much more care. If someone has the numbers to contradict or confirm my experience, it would be interesting.
this surprises me.. I know so many people and every 10th or even 15th is maybe slightly obese let alone overweight
I don’t doubt that there are many people in Switzerland with an unhealthy weight, but BMI has been shown time and time again to be an unreliable and even misleading method in studies trying to correlate health and bodyweight.
43% overweight seems way too high.
It’s clear that the tend is upwards but 43% of adults are not overweight.
There’s an known issue with the BMI calc for tall heights, for 190cm the 25 threshold is 90kg but you can be athletic and not overweight at this level.
It could be that the population is getting taller and it skews the BMI results upwards.
I guess the factors are mostly:
* Increased cars per capita
* Increased anxiety/stress related to work
* Less time to cook at home: more comfort food
* Less time to exercise
People usually don’t get obese though, and „overweight“ is not that visible when wearing clothes: the fat can distribute quite well over the body, and around the organs.
EDIT: For anyone curious, this is what someone in the low „obese“ classification looks like (he is still obese at 30 BMI in the after pic). With a shirt, it would be hard to see it. You can imagine that someone overweight at 26 BMI is not „obvious overweight“ [https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/tl4b2/almost_out_of_obese_bmi_30_as_of_today/](https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/tl4b2/almost_out_of_obese_bmi_30_as_of_today/)
Before anyone says „But BMI is not good“, yes we all know the limitations, but this guy is definitely not packing 10kg additional muscle compared to the average guy, so it won’t be that off.
We need raclette zero !
the obesity rate in Switzerland is one of the lowest in all of europe
< 40s seem pretty fit to me
It’s because to be considered overweight under the BMI (BMI of 25-30) you might not really „look“ overweight. Someone who 1.80 m can be overweight at 81 kg, which is really not all that much, especially if you have any sort of muscle to speak of.
Iwanderig?
I’d hate to be the guy in the stock photo
Well just swing by at any mall on a saturday afternoon and you will see.
I just need someone to kick my sorry ass into the gym..
Cause motivating myself to do something is the hardest part…
I‘m not surprised.
During the quarantine phase of the pandemic I lost ~5kg just by not having to use the SV cantina at my office.
Needless to say my weight increased again afterwards with no change to my excercises and food outside of work.
No where near the obesity level in America
People should stop eating the products that contain sugar. I love pure chocolate without sugar and coffee without sugar, zero calories Coca Cola and so on. Once per week I can purchase ice cream with sugar or small chocolate bar. It really helps to stay in a good fit. Even 10 minutes of physical exercises can be really helpful to lose weight.
More often than not, these articles are more concerned with the social implications of being an overweight person than the actual health implications. I highly doubt Switzerland has a problem with morbidly obese people.
To much raclette
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