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Report: Half of World on Track to Be Overweight By 2035

  • #Medicine & healthcare
  • #Diseases & conditions
  • #Obesity
  • #Turkey
  • #COVID-19
  • #Israel
  • #Healthy eating
  • #Malta
  • #Diabetes
  • #Guinea
  • #Mali
  • #Central African Republic
  • #Somalia
  • #Niger
  • #Nigeria
  • #Papua New Guinea
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MAR 2023
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story last updated MAR 2023

The Spin

Right narrative

Obesity is a complicated issue that needs more than just government regulation and policies — which places the blame squarely on society and outside forces — to address it. Individuals need to accept personal responsibility and be willing to take concrete action because the alternative is to normalize it as an irreparable health problem, denying individuals agency over their lives and thus cementing their dependency on an imposing technocracy.

National Review

Left narrative

Genetics, cultural, socioeconomic, and environmental factors all influence an individual's risk for obesity, which is why trying to address this health emergency by focusing on an individual's lifestyle choices is unfair. Obesity is a public health crisis that deserves maximum effort from policymakers, healthcare providers, and insurers to dramatically reduce its burden on people already dealing with the stress of chronic sleep deprivation, poverty or threat of poverty, and systemic racism or other trauma.

MedPage Today

Metaculus Prediction


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