US BMI/obesity declined, but was it due to GLP-1?
In tech circles, there has recently been many people cheering for the apparent success of Ozempic-like drugs (GLP-1 agonists) in finally reducing the American obesity rate. More and more variants…
BMI vs. body fat %
In my previous post I discussed commonly found normal distribution in humans. In general, these result from many small independent causes in different directions which when averaged result in a…
The other Anglo exceptionalism
Economists are fond of talking about the specialness of the United Kingdom back when it kicked off the industrial revolution. Similarly, USA is doing remarkably well by some metrics compared…
Obesity and the secular decline in testosterone
One thing I didn't address in the last post about the decline of everything manly is that obesity is a potential cause of secular declines in testosterone. That's because the…
Are fat people dumb?
There's a stereotype that fat people are lazy, less intelligent, and of course, they are widely considered unattractive in the west in modern times. But is this stereotype true? Well,…
Supersize me failed replication. Well sort of.
Most people people my age know about a documentary called Supersize me! from 2004. The story of it goes like this: As the film begins, Spurlock is in physically above…