I’ll reiterate this again. “Obesity” is measure by height/weight to create what they call a BMI. It’s a very archaic measurement that has literally every fit person with muscle listed as obese, I had to be taped for “obesity” every year in the military because I was 6’1 225 and the adjusted bmi had me at 7% body fat. Asians are hilariously short, and have next to zero muscle mass compared to any other race. This makes Asians “skinny fats” where the majority will pass a height/weight measurement, but not a neck/ waist measurement.
If you look at type 2 diabetes rates non hispanic whites are the LOWEST demographic at ~7% where everyone else is 11% or higher. If you look at morbid obesity rates it’s a 2:1 ratio of female to male.
The Asian American rate was 9%. But Indians were counted as Asians in that survey, and their rate of type 2 diabetes is 2-3 times the rate of East Asians like Koreans.
So actual Asians came in very low for type 2 diabetes.
I’ll reiterate this again. “Obesity” is measure by height/weight to create what they call a BMI. It’s a very archaic measurement that has literally every fit person with muscle listed as obese, I had to be taped for “obesity” every year in the military because I was 6’1 225 and the adjusted bmi had me at 7% body fat. Asians are hilariously short, and have next to zero muscle mass compared to any other race. This makes Asians “skinny fats” where the majority will pass a height/weight measurement, but not a neck/ waist measurement.
If you look at type 2 diabetes rates non hispanic whites are the LOWEST demographic at ~7% where everyone else is 11% or higher. If you look at morbid obesity rates it’s a 2:1 ratio of female to male.
The Asian American rate was 9%. But Indians were counted as Asians in that survey, and their rate of type 2 diabetes is 2-3 times the rate of East Asians like Koreans.
So actual Asians came in very low for type 2 diabetes.