These Are the Most And Least Obese States in America
15th July 2019
Aggregation fallacy. States don’t have bodies and can’t be obese. Individual people have bodies and can be obese, but there is nothing about where they live that controls their weight.
The complications associated with obesity are tragic and expensive and they have a direct effect on all consumers in a number of ways. Excess weight relative to one’s height is medically linked with early death, heart disease, diabetes, and practically all maladies. Across pretty much all cultures across the globe, obesity is associated with early death.
What ways? That ‘they have a direct effect on consumers in a number of ways’ is asserted but no evidence is presented.
If you are a consumer and obese, well, there’s an effect — but the alleged connection between obesity and consumer status is supported neither by evidence nor by argument.
I really hate these hair-on-fire articles that make great claims and never back them up. But people believe this shit.