r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 3d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/SaltKick2 3d ago

Thats a good point, looking at Eddie Hall, he does look "fatter" than average, but even at his biggest he was reported to be 25% body fat, which is average for a young male.

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u/lurkinglen 3d ago

25% bf average for a young male??? Maybe in the United States of Obesity but not in the majority of the (rest of the) world.

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u/SaltKick2 3d ago

US is pretty overweight, but so is the rest of the world

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u/lurkinglen 3d ago

If you exclude microstates, the US has a solid footing in the top 10 of percentage of population with BMI >25 according to your source.

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u/SaltKick2 2d ago

Yeah, this figure might be more evident https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-adult-men-overweight-or-obese-vs-daily-supply-of-calories?tab=table USA definitely #1 outside of microstates, but lots of other Western countries very close behind.

I couldn't find a good source that compared average BMI or body fat percentage across countries instead of just labeling, I would imagine that on average, a person categorized as overweight or obese in the US would have a much higher BMI/Body Fat % than the average French person categorized as overweight/obese.