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The population of a specific Google office could be two std deviations from the mean. My office area, SoHo NYC, has a dramatically lower obesity rate than the USA average. Maybe 10-20% of the population is overweight, let alone obese, and it’s mostly the service workers.


But 1 of 1000s? That sounds like it's made up, or a very, very, very fitness-focused company.


I edited my response. I'm from Canada, but we also have a 26% obesity stats.




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