Paul Saladino· MD
100 years ago if you were obese you were in the circus and there was a case report written about you it was that rare
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100 years ago if you were obese you were in the circus and there was a case report written about you it was that rare
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using measures that we can compare over long periods of time like body mass index i don't remember the exact numbers but it was like a few percent it was like low single digits of people actually classified as bmi over 30 at that time 120 130 years ago
using measures that we can compare over long periods of time like body mass index um I don't remember the exact numbers but it was like a few percent it was like low single digits of people actually classified as BMI over 30 at that time 130 years ago
I think it's clear that we're much fatter today on average with a much higher uh percentage of obese obesity and a thousand years ago there was obesity I mean we have evidence even from Egyptian mummies that um among the wealthy there was obesity not to say that it necessarily was super common but I don't think it was that uncommon um among the wealthy I think probably for similar reasons that we have obesity today but um certainly the prevalence was much lower