Anonymous wrote:Another perspective on this topic:

It's doubtlessly true that gen Z as a whole will be the fattest. But we are also steadily moving towards a dimorphic society, like everything else in modern America. The to 20% live extremely well. They are fit and healthy and exercise and watch their diets. The bottom 50% are obese and unhealthy.

I'm 43 and live in upper middle classdom and the kids in this area are even more obsessed with fitness than we were at their age 20-25 years ago. No one smokes, for example, compared to my expensive private school days in the 1990s. Drinking is far less common. Kids live in athletic gear.

But when I go outside this bubble, things are unquestionably different for lower income kids.

Anonymous wrote:Another perspective on this topic:

It's doubtlessly true that gen Z as a whole will be the fattest. But we are also steadily moving towards a dimorphic society, like everything else in modern America. The to 20% live extremely well. They are fit and healthy and exercise and watch their diets. The bottom 50% are obese and unhealthy.

I'm 43 and live in upper middle classdom and the kids in this area are even more obsessed with fitness than we were at their age 20-25 years ago. No one smokes, for example, compared to my expensive private school days in the 1990s. Drinking is far less common. Kids live in athletic gear.

But when I go outside this bubble, things are unquestionably different for lower income kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Childhood obesity and obesity rates for young Americans are at all time highs. You might want to rethink this post.



https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity


Gen Z is nowhere close to breaking the trend of rising obesity. Soon, nearly 1:2 adults will be obese. Not just overweight, but obese.

Too many video games. Too much Internet and social media. Too much processed food. Too much smoking weed.

The US population gets unhealthier every generation because they keep eating worse and worse food, get less and less exercise, and spend less and less time outdoors.

All I see from your link is that parents of each successive generation have no idea what they're doing. It's entirely possible that Gen-z, after becoming adults and can make choices for themselves, become healthier than when their choices were made by their parents.

Anonymous wrote:Childhood obesity and obesity rates for young Americans are at all time highs. You might want to rethink this post.



https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity


Gen Z is nowhere close to breaking the trend of rising obesity. Soon, nearly 1:2 adults will be obese. Not just overweight, but obese.

Too many video games. Too much Internet and social media. Too much processed food. Too much smoking weed.

The US population gets unhealthier every generation because they keep eating worse and worse food, get less and less exercise, and spend less and less time outdoors.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Dh is a gastroenterologist and I’m worried about how many gen Zers are going to be diagnosed with colon cancer in their 20’s and 30’s.

Why? (Genuinely curious!)

It's a trend.

Colorectal cancer in younger adults (2022) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9177054/


I am very intrigued to see this because it’s also some thing that has kind of scared me — I’m 44 and two people in my life, within 3 to 4 years of age of me we’re diagnosed with colon cancer within the last two years. In both cases, it was advanced— One was stage three verging on four, and the other was stage four. Both have elderly parents in their 70s with ZERO history of colon or any other cancer - so it’s not a hereditary thing.

Tragically the person who got diagnosed at stage four passed away ~ 7 months after diagnosis.

The person who got diagnosed at stage 3/4 actually has had tremendous success and is back at work after a year plus off, and has a hopeful prognosis.

That said, as someone whose mother had breast cancer twice, and whose father had prostate cancer and then died of Mesothelioma, these trends of colon cancer in young-ish people are frightening. I knew the cancers I was supposed to watch for because of family history, but it seems that colon cancer is springing up without warning for my contemporaries, and I’ve wondered if maybe processed food our generation ate as kids was behind it.