On: GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)

[Marsymars]

> In my entire office, there's one overweight person that I know. Out of thousands of employees.

That seems incompatible with the numbers that show something like 3/4 of the US population being overweight.

(And yeah, BMI isn't great, but it works pretty well with an aggregate population of sedentary individuals, which the population at large is.)

[thundergolfer → Marsymars]

The population of a specific Google office could be two std deviations from the mean. My office area, SoHo NYC, has a dramatically lower obesity rate than the USA average. Maybe 10-20% of the population is overweight, let alone obese, and it’s mostly the service workers.

[luckylion → thundergolfer]

But 1 of 1000s? That sounds like it's made up, or a very, very, very fitness-focused company.

[aljgz → luckylion]

I edited my response. I'm from Canada, but we also have a 26% obesity stats.