68% of Canadians overweight or obese

[border_humper]

Most Canadians are overweight or obese, data suggests

Most Canadian adults are obese and overweight, new Statistics Canada data suggests.

www.ctvnews.ca

Most Canadian adults are now classified as obese or overweight, a significant rise in recent years compared to the time before the COVID-19 pandemic, new Statistics Canada data suggests.

The government agency’s Canadian Health Measures Survey found the following:

• More than two-thirds, or 68 per cent, of Canadians aged 18 to 79 had a body mass index (BMI) that classified them as overweight or obese. StatCan said the finding was based on the period from 2022 to 2024.
• Before the COVID-19 pandemic, 60 per cent of Canadians from the same age range were considered overweight or obese, between 2016 and 2019.

Obesity became more prevalent in recent years, especially among young adults aged 18 to 39, compared to the time before the pandemic.

StatCan’s study discovered the following:

• The proportion of obese individuals rose to 33 per cent from 2022 to 2024. It was previously 25 per cent between 2016 and 2019.

“This is in line with research suggesting that pandemic-related changes in lifestyle, including reduced physical activity and increased sedentary behaviour, may have contributed to higher obesity levels in adults,” it goes on to say in its press release Thursday.

Up sharply since they locked everyone down.

 

[ovarieasy]

Can't wait for CBC to spin food rationing as a good way to lose weight.

 

[border_humper]

Walking because you can’t afford the car and know too much to take public transport.

 

[Hirudinea]

Hey, Cubans look pretty healthy, right?

 

[ayn_rands_ghost]

But they know how to take care of 'classic' cars though.....

 

[Hirudinea]

@ayn_rands_ghost

Well their communist government lets them keep their gas guzzlers.

 

[Trudeaus coke dealer]

That perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with the people of this country actually. Sound mind sound body. Fuck your body up enough and the mind will follow.

Is it possible that the mental illness we call progressive liberalism is simply a result of poor diet and flabby midsection?

 

[Thinker]

I wonder how much is this from massive foreign influx of people coming in.

 

[Hirudinea]

Well I have heard that India is having an obesity and diabetes epidemic, so I don't see why they wouldn't be doing the same here.

 

[Sgt. Goosenip]

All they have to do to improve things is have the CBC report that the US has a lower obesity rate - that’ll fire up the NPC’s to prove their national identity by showing that they’re ‘better than the Americans’

 

[SveetGrilledEels]

Lots of people like pointing fingers at seed oils and soy, yet the Chinese and Japanese eat large amounts of both but have very low obesity rates. I don't get it.

Sugary drinks and dessert items are definitely a major factor, though.

 

[Thinker]

Seed oils specifically how it is extracted has other knock on effects not just obesity. Japanese usually have fermented soy not raw soy that added as supplements in a lot of foods.

 

[Hirudinea]

 

[border_humper]

sugar is also what cancer feeds on.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

During the Covid lockdown I worked out everyday and gained muscle as well as leaned out. When i went back to the office I couldnt believe how much everyone changed including putting on weight and all looked like marsh mellows.

Everyone kept pointing out the fact I had bulked up and was leaner then ever. I didnt tell them it was because i was training to kill them all with my bare hands if i had to

i still workout with the ideology that one day i may need to kill everyone with my bare hands but that is another story

 

[ovarieasy]

It would be in one ear and out the other.

"Oh my gosh, how are you looking so good?"
"Eating well and exercising. That's literally it. The thing that everyone knows and few do."
"Come on, what's your secret?"
"I eat a Subway sandwich every day and activate my almonds..."
"I knew it!"

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

yep no one cared really but the reality of them letting go vs someone who didnt was the elephant in the room

i felt good they felt bad

fast forward to now and those same people still havent improved themselves and they are feeding the stats like the one above

 

[border_humper]

@d01tg0d0wn When shit hits the fan, I hope you’ll be our King Barbecue. Except no way am I clawing my way to Edmonton.