Obesity Facts and Information

US has much higher obesity rate than Canada

American adults have a significantly higher rate of obesity than their neighbors to the north, a new study says. About 24 percent of Canadians are obese compared to more than 34 percent of Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Wednesday. Researchers looked at height and weight data taken [...]

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Obesity rates remain disturbingly high

Chances are slim to none that the U.S. will meet its public health goal of sharply reducing the number of obese adults by this year, according to federal health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. While just 13 percent of adults were obese in the early 1960s, more than 30 [...]

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Is There an Obesity Tipping Point in Infancy?

If there is any reason for hope among the data on national obesity rates in the U.S. (the numbers should be familiar by now: two-thirds of adults and nearly one-third of children are overweight or obese in the country), it is that they finally seem to be leveling off. According to the most recently published [...]

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Obese Poor Shut Out From Weight-Loss Surgeries

THURSDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) — Despite having one of the highest rates of obesity in America, the poor are less likely to undergo weight loss surgery than obese people who are better off financially, new research shows. White women with higher incomes and private health insurance were the most likely to have the surgery, [...]

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