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New report: obesity-related costs in 2018 were 6.76% GDP ($1.389 trillion) vs. 5.57% ($0.976 trillion) in 2014. Obesity rates rising for men, esp. Of 7 factors ID'd as crucial, none is nutrition/diet via @MilkenInstitute https://milkeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/reports-pdf/Weighing%20Down%20America.pdf
All factors are instead are "social determinants of health." Public health experts now regard these determinants, like access to housing, socio-economic factors, race, etc the determinants of a person's ability to lose weight. These are important, absolutely. 2/
Yet food choices also important. In this report's model, food mentioned only under "physical env. factors" (access to healthy food) and "rural-urban factors" (density of fast-food joints). Experts tend to ignore the central scientific Q in obesity: How to eat to Lose Weight?3/
"Social determinants of health" is modeling exercises, based on multiple assumptions. More rigorous data is in controlled clinical trials on weight loss. A lot happening at cutting edge of this field of science. Grim stats should make us open to new thinking /f
