Deaths from falling out of bed in the USUS per capita peanut butter consumption
American peanut butter consumption per person and American deaths from falling out of bed, both climbing. The PB&J is not, technically, the cause of the bedroom accident. The bedroom is, statistically, full of older adults who like peanut butter. The dataset is forgiving.
US per-capita peanut butter consumption climbed steadily across this window as the protein-trend tailwind, almond-butter substitution backwash, and snacking-as-meals shift lifted demand. Deaths from falling out of bed in the US also climbed steadily, almost entirely as a function of an aging population: most such deaths involve adults over 65, and the over-65 cohort grew from 36 to over 55 million people. Two completely unrelated lines sharing a window because the same seventeen years inflated both peanut butter consumption and the demographic that drives the falling-out-of-bed statistic.
The country aged and ate more peanut butter. Demographic time pulls a lot of correlations along with it.
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