Potato Europe vs Tomato Europe has never looked so real
JimJimmington on
What is this colour scale? Multiple greys? What do they mean? The same? Yellow (a warning colour) is the best, better than green?
6ftmetalGuy96 on
Whats happening in that straight line from Finland down to Croatia lol? I can confirm people in Croatia are fat.
Real_Sartre on
Proximity to great food will do that
schmeckfest2000 on
In all honesty, all these numbers seem rather high, imho. Italy has the lowest number in this chart, but it’s still 4 out of 10 people.
That’s concerning. We can’t become a second US.
Also, look at sneaky Malta… What’s going on down there?
eiezo360 on
So it s based on BMI… Not very useful then
adammathias on
So it’s basically reached around 50% everywhere, i.e. a continental epidemic.
The slight differences are probably more driven by confounding variables like the emigration of young people or urban vs rural, not country borders per se.
time_observer on
Just keep in mind that overweight doesn’t mean obese. Overweight is just not underweight, which isn’t a good thing either.
eiezo360 on
Its useless because it says nothing about the general health of a population, when focusing alone on the “overweight” scale – or the 25-30 range. There is nothing that indicates the people, in general, in the “overweight” area (25-30) are at larger health risk than people in the “normal weight” scale.
So in this case, where it just shows procent of population who are “overweight” is only usefull for rage- and or clickbait.
A far better graph for a general health discussion is procent of obese in a giving population.
Karihashi on
What is the threshold? I’m having a hard time believing 50% of Spanish children are overweight…
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Source https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Overweight_and_obesity_-_BMI_statistics
Potato Europe vs Tomato Europe has never looked so real
What is this colour scale? Multiple greys? What do they mean? The same? Yellow (a warning colour) is the best, better than green?
Whats happening in that straight line from Finland down to Croatia lol? I can confirm people in Croatia are fat.
Proximity to great food will do that
In all honesty, all these numbers seem rather high, imho. Italy has the lowest number in this chart, but it’s still 4 out of 10 people.
That’s concerning. We can’t become a second US.
Also, look at sneaky Malta… What’s going on down there?
So it s based on BMI… Not very useful then
So it’s basically reached around 50% everywhere, i.e. a continental epidemic.
The slight differences are probably more driven by confounding variables like the emigration of young people or urban vs rural, not country borders per se.
Just keep in mind that overweight doesn’t mean obese. Overweight is just not underweight, which isn’t a good thing either.
Its useless because it says nothing about the general health of a population, when focusing alone on the “overweight” scale – or the 25-30 range. There is nothing that indicates the people, in general, in the “overweight” area (25-30) are at larger health risk than people in the “normal weight” scale.
So in this case, where it just shows procent of population who are “overweight” is only usefull for rage- and or clickbait.
A far better graph for a general health discussion is procent of obese in a giving population.
What is the threshold? I’m having a hard time believing 50% of Spanish children are overweight…
fat wall of Europe?
Fat Spaniard kids are more common than you think
Fat belt of Europe