# The Crazy Years

**URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451
**Category:** The Happening World
**Tags:** crazy-years, clown-show
**Created:** [30 May 2022 12:56 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451 "2022-05-30T12:56:57Z")
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[Dr Fatima Cody Stanford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_Cody_Stanford) is an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director of the National Institutes of Health Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) working group on workforce diversity.

Here is Dr Stanford in a _60 Minutes_ segment broadcast on 2023-01-01 expounding to news reader Leslie Stahl on the causes of obesity.

[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f511781f77dcc97934cf39f50a960307385ce9ce.jpeg "Promising new weight loss medication in short supply and often not covered by insurance | 60 Minutes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMRnDNhPwqM&t=195s)

“The number one cause of obesity is genetics. That is, if you were born to parents who have obesity, you have a fifty to eighty percent likelihood of having the disease yourself, even with optimal diet, exercise, sleep management, stress management.”

In the reaction shots, Stahl looks like she’s sucking on a lemon hearing this.

Here is a [chart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States), based upon World Health Organisation data, of the prevalence of obesity among adults in the United States from 1975 through 2016.

![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0896bc94b83753227f9d77c7c3dc3b2738ee818b.png)  
So, this must mean, based upon obesity’s “number one cause”, that over a period of four decades, the genetics of the U.S. population has changed so that the fraction of obese adults has _tripled_. And who said human evolution has ceased!

Pay no attention to the “[Food Compass](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/tufts-university-publishes-food-compass-gales-of-laughter-ensue/2582)” and other dietary recommendations of “experts”—nothing to see there….

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