{"id":23328,"date":"2010-05-19T10:29:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=23328"},"modified":"2013-12-15T02:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T07:57:56","slug":"obesity-and-age-1926-to-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/19\/obesity-and-age-1926-to-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity and Age, 1926 to 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This graph, from <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2010\/04\/29\/challenge-graphing-obesity-trends\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flowing Data<\/a>, shows the obesity rates of different generational cohorts as they age.\u00a0 Each differently colored lines represents people who were born in different decades (between 1926 and 1935 and on up).\u00a0 Ascending lines represent higher percentages of obesity.\u00a0 Horizontal progress represents age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/19\/obesity-and-age-1926-to-2005\/picture_21_1tiiz1b0sd0gkw8cogwcc0kwo_bxj7bs82axw0g448owg4gc8so_th\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23330\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23330\" title=\"picture_21_1tiiz1b0sd0gkw8cogwcc0kwo_bxj7bs82axw0g448owg4gc8so_th\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/picture_21_1tiiz1b0sd0gkw8cogwcc0kwo_bxj7bs82axw0g448owg4gc8so_th.png\" width=\"545\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/picture_21_1tiiz1b0sd0gkw8cogwcc0kwo_bxj7bs82axw0g448owg4gc8so_th.png 545w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/picture_21_1tiiz1b0sd0gkw8cogwcc0kwo_bxj7bs82axw0g448owg4gc8so_th-500x391.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, first things first: rates of obesity go up as a cohort ages.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>People born after 1975 are starting out with higher rates of obesity than people born between 1956 and 1975.<\/p>\n<p>And.<\/p>\n<p>Obesity rates seem to rise at a pretty consistent rate as cohorts age.\u00a0 So, if a cohort starts out with a high rate of obesity, they will have an ever higher rate 10 years later, and an even higher rate ten years after that, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The consequence:\u00a0 Higher rates of obesity overall for each cohort that follows the last.<\/p>\n<p>The data for the most recent cohort, born between 1996 and 2005, however, looks like it might be bucking the trend.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This graph, from Flowing Data, shows the obesity rates of different generational cohorts as they age.\u00a0 Each differently colored lines represents people who were born in different decades (between 1926 and 1935 and on up).\u00a0 Ascending lines represent higher percentages of obesity.\u00a0 Horizontal progress represents age. So, first things first: rates of obesity go up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,244,253],"class_list":["post-23328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-fat","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23328"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60206,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328\/revisions\/60206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}