4.8 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | As someone that covers, consolidates, it just generally talks about the news for the last 15 years is my job. |
0:06.7 | I am an appreciator of headlines. |
0:09.0 | And I consider it an art. |
0:10.0 | It's a way to drive interest to evoke an emotional reaction, which is exactly what I had when someone linked me to a reason article titled, |
0:18.0 | Most Americans have not put on pandemic weight actually, which Elizabeth |
0:22.7 | Nolan Brown, I don't know why you woke up and shows violence today, but okay. But also, once you |
0:27.0 | get past that headline, you actually look into the research that it's talking about, it's a very |
0:30.2 | interesting multi-tiered story that goes beyond just trying to shame people like myself for gaining |
0:35.1 | 30 to 40 pounds. The survey at the center of this is from the APA, |
0:38.3 | the American Psychological Association. |
0:40.2 | And they found that slightly more than six in 10 US adults |
0:43.0 | report undesired weight change since the start of the pandemic. |
0:45.8 | Like your girlfriend in college goes both ways, |
0:48.0 | though more one way than the other. |
0:49.9 | Finding that 42% of US adults reported undesired weight gain, |
0:53.4 | 18% undesired weight loss, 18% undesired weight loss. |
0:55.0 | With the average gain and loss being 29 and 26 pounds. |
0:59.0 | Also breaking down the results in different categories, age, race, gender. |
1:03.0 | Also highlighting loss and gain if you're a parent or an essential worker. |
1:06.0 | Though I do want to know it in places like the New York Times and separate articles have said this. |
1:10.0 | Kind of understanding the scope of this problem has been a challenge. |
1:13.6 | There have actually been a number of surveys out there, and the issue is that surveys that simply ask people about their weight, they're notoriously unreliable. |
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