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Those are definitely some big guys in the picture there, but it is remarkable that that was the body type that would warrant joining a club and having newspaper articles written about you.

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To be fair, 100+ pounds overweight isn't a "body type". It's a health hazard and the direct result of eating too much food. It's easy to lose sight of what's normal when every two out of three [0] Americans share the same diagnosis.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm

> and the direct result of eating too much food

slaps forehead but it was so simple! please, do smoking next!

If the amount of Americans who are overweight was reduced to the amount of Americans who still smoke, the earth would probably shift on its axis.

It is that simple. Unfortunately that’s not the same as easy. Especially not when your whole environment, culture, and physiology are designed to encourage you to eat too much food.

It’s a body type. It’s the American body type. It’s just that a minority of Americans don’t have it.

70% of people being overweight is by no means good, but that is not even remotely close to 100 pounds of extra body fat. 100+ would usually put you in class II or III obesity. That number is more like 10%.

To be fair, there’s newspaper articles being written around fat women social communities around body positivity or whatever these days, too. I don’t think much had changed!

I think you're missing the point. The "fat men" weren't fat at all, not by today's standards. 200 lbs is all it takes.

That's the minimum, not the mean.

Just look at the size of American football players. William Perry was considered a giant in the 1980s coming in around 330lbs. College linemen are often bigger today.

Up into the 70s the average lineman was 250.

“Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.” - Chuck Noll, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach (69-91)

Every starting quarterback in the NFL is over 200 lbs with the large majority over 220 lbs.

I guess they all could be in fat mens clubs. Wild.

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