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rene  ·  262 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: People Aren't Still Having Sex

Obesity in the USA has gone from 23.2% in 1988 to 42.8% in 2017[1] and it's not slowing down[2]. Fat people fuck, but it's harder (actually, it's softer [3]). Child and adolescent obesity has doubled since 1988 [4].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity-adult-17-18/overweight-obesity-adults-H.pdf

[2] https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6448569/

[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/285035/percentage-of-us-children-and-adolescents-who-were-obese