Americans got fatter over the past two decades newsweek.com/americans-fatt… That's not news. But the obesity rate is probably a key number to track if you're trying to figure out how well America's doing in general.
It reflects, among other things, a breakdown in family structures, social atomization, consumption gone mad, increasingly unstructured and lonely lives, and all the other social pathologies that have led to political dysfunction and widespread discontent.
And of course, it's a cause of shortened life expectancy.
We can probably use this number to predict whether we're doing better or worse on any number of other metrics.
We can probably use this number to predict whether we're doing better or worse on any number of other metrics.
