SHARYL ATTKISSON: American health plummets after Covid pandemic (Gallup).

The following is from Gallup News Poll.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Obesity and diabetes have both reached record highs*
• Healthy eating habits have worsened substantially since 2019; exercise unchanged
• Other key aspects of physical health have worsened since before pandemic

Key physical health metrics have notably worsened since before the Covid-19 pandemic, including obesity, diabetes and eating habits.

The percentage of U.S. adults whom Gallup classifies as obese has reached an estimated 38.4%, up 6.0 percentage points since 2019 and just shy of the record high of 39.9% measured in 2022.

A new high of 13.6% of respondents say they have been diagnosed by a medical professional with diabetes, up 1.1 points since 2019.

The most recent results, obtained Aug. 30-Sept. 8, 2023, are based on 5,316 U.S. adults surveyed by web as part of the Gallup Panel, a probability-based panel of about 100,000 adults across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

* Unexpectedly! Gender studies professor claims combatting obesity is ‘fatphobic,’ blasts agenda against fatness.

Which is an odd stance for an ideology that sees many of its practitioners stuck in a permanent 2020 mindset. Especially when, as those crazy rightwingers at the AP reported in September of 2020: COVID-19 and obesity: Doctors studying link between excess weight and severe disease.