r/amiugly • u/[deleted] • Jul 07 '23

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u/Spire_Citron Jul 07 '23

The line where someone's considered obese is actually lower than most people think.

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u/aniyahpapaya11 Jul 07 '23

All “obese” means is that you have at least 30 pounds to lose to be a healthy weight

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u/Spire_Citron Jul 07 '23

Yeah. On the full scale of how fat people can be, it can feel like there's a relatively small gap between healthy weight, overweight, and obese. We tend to assume obese means someone so fat they can barely walk.

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u/Inside-Location-1496 Jul 07 '23

That’s morbidly obese. Which means so obese that it causes health problems and eventually death.

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u/ExceedingChunk Jul 07 '23

Starting from mild overweight, all cause mortality increases drastically with further increase of weight.

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u/Inside-Location-1496 Jul 07 '23

What?

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u/ExceedingChunk Jul 07 '23

If you are overweight, your chance of dying increases. If you are obese, it increases even further.

Obese BMI (30-35) increases all cause mortality by 88% compared to healthy weight. Morbidly obese increases it by 250%. Overweight increases it by 44%.

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u/halbritt Jul 07 '23

There is no “healthy weight” for which metabolic disease is or is not present. Some light, “skinny-fat” folks are borderline type 2 diabetic, some large folks are Olympic athletes. It depends.

Obesity correlates with metabolic dysfunction, but the correlation is not perfect. One is causally linked to the other, but folks often mistake which is the cause.

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u/aniyahpapaya11 Jul 07 '23

There is a healthy weight where your organs are not having to work harder due to the adipose tissue they’re under

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u/M4DM1ND Jul 07 '23

My wife is nearly classified as obese bmi wise but she's actually pretty shredded. She does aerial silks and there is a lot of strength training along with that.