I'll note first that this research is repeatable and any one of you could get off your own butts and do it.
University professor to the people who pay her salary and provide her food: You yokels are too fat. We need to find ways to punish you. And you are too dumb to know how tall you are and how much you weigh. You young'uns better watch your back.
Self-reported data showed 20-23% obesity in rural areas and 18-20% in urban areas, versus a measured rate of 39.6% rural and 33.4% urban. Most of these people know very well how tall they are and have some idea of how much they weigh. Most of them will tell you that they're "overweight." What they don't know is how significant their weight is for their height; obesity and the health risks it entails are defined based on the BMI. Both rural and urban severely underestimated their self-reported weights. Unless you happen to think that objectively measuring something is somehow less accurate than guestimating it.
We can shoot straighter too.
Since you made the assertion, I checked, and it turns out that obesity is indeed a risk factor for Peyronie's Disease. (The link's not too graphic, but we were shown a picture in lecture where it curved in a U and pointed downward - ouch!)
Rural people are also much much much smarter then urban people
And more vain too?
The rates of obesity were much higher than previously reported based on self-report... My guess is that rural folk don't lie as much (to themselves or others.)
Nah, both groups severely underestimated their weight as compared to measured values. 16-19% more rural obesity versus 13-15% more urban obesity than based on self-reporting. Really, the numbers almost doubled. That's why it's so important to use actual measurements.
our cities are filling with “replacement Americans” (generally from Latin America and Asia) who are much “lighter” than the multigenerational welfare sows they are displacing in those cities
The study looked at more than just location and BMI. They didn't have enough rural hispanics in the study to be able to compare their differences as a separate group, but the comparison of whites is non-hispanics. Being black was significantly associated with obesity, in addition to the rural difference. Rural black (55.6% obese) > urban black (43.2%) > rural white (38.4%) > urban white (32.1%). But while we're at it, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease are huge in the hispanic population - have you ever eaten at those Mexican restaurants?
The real farm boys, that is. Not the town boys who don’t do sh_t except leave the couch to get a soda.
"Among participants who were active, obesity prevalence was higher among rural compared to urban residents (36.3% [SE = 4.5] and 25.5% [SE = 1.6], respectively; P = .03)."
You misunderstood the last commenter in your post. He/she was making a distinction between types of rural folk. There are rural townsfolk, and farm folk who don’t live “in town”. Maybe you have to be a ruralite (yes, I just made that one up as an analogue to urbanite) to know that in the first place.
Obesity is certainly on the rise everywhere.
Thank you Doctor; I’ll believe my own eyes rather than studies. I’m sandwiched between two of NJ’s biggest cities, and have been to the farmland in the south of the “Garden State” as well as Pennsylvania.
Maybe you didn’t take the time to read my post and see that I supported the findings of the study.
Thanks for telling all about the study and may cause us rural readers to evaluate. As to my comment concerning shooting straight, I meant a gun. However, did go to the link and learned about Peyronie’s disease. Don’t know as I needed to know about it but now I do. Think I will take a walk.