BMI isn't a reliable indicator to gauge obesity. For example, Tom Brady at 6' 4" and 225 lbs is considered overweight, which is obviously not the case.
That being said, as an American, it really did shock me how fit the majority of people were in Italy when I visited there for the first time last year.
That being said, as an American, it really did shock me how fit the majority of people were in Italy when I visited there for the first time last year.
This New England Journal of Medicine chart really does a good job of showing that America has gotten heavier over the years: https://www.nejm.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/mms/jour...
Source: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1909301