In today's edition of doctors can be stupid too, we present an article published in the July issue of Obesity, stating that 86% of Americans could be overweight or obese by 2030. And if you thought that was bad, they expect a 100% obesity rate by 2048.
The researchers, Dr. Youfa Wang among them (pictured at right,) conducted projection analyses based on data from the past three decades of nationally representative surveys.
And to that we say, WTF?
100% obesity rate? Are these people serious? Don't they understand arithmetic vs. complex graphing? Just because you said "tree" once yesterday and twice today does not mean you will say it 3 times tomorrow increasing by one everyday until it's the only word you say all day long. These kinds of problems are curves, not straight lines. If their graph continued without logical limits, which they seem to have ignored, perhaps 220% of us will be obese by 2061.
It's ridiculous to think that just because someone goes to school for a long time they can publish this kind of b.s. in a medical journal (Obesity) obviously designed to inspire panic and deliver "news" on this epidemic that's fake as it is.
Unbelievable.
jhsph.edu: Study Suggests 86 Percent of Americans Could be Overweight or Obese by 2030
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