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2. Overweight vs. Obesity: Do You Really Know the Difference? - AOL

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   Obesity is a disease characterized by having excessive body fat, increasing a person’s risk for many serious health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, and even some cancers Overweight vs ...

3. Obesity in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Over 70 million adults in U.S. are obese (35 million men and 35 million women). 99 million are overweight (45 million women and 54 million men). [68] NHANES 2016 statistics showed that about 39.6% of American adults were obese. Men had an age-adjusted rate of 37.9% and Women had an age-adjusted rate of 41.1%. [66]

4. Overweight - Wikipedia

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   Overweight is defined as a BMI of 25 or more, thus it includes pre-obesity defined as a BMI between 25 and 29.9 and obesity as defined by a BMI of 30 or more. [4] [5] Pre-obese and overweight however are often used interchangeably, thus giving overweight a common definition of a BMI of between 25 and 29.9. There are, however, several other ...

5. Body mass index - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 December 2024. Relative weight based on mass and height Medical diagnostic method Body mass index (BMI) Chart showing body mass index (BMI) for a range of heights and weights in both metric and imperial. Colours indicate BMI categories defined by the World Health Organization ; underweight, normal ...

6. Obesity Rates in the U.S. Drop for the First Time in a Decade ...

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   The study followed nearly 17 million people, the majority of whom were in the 26-75 age range, and found that after climbing steadily since 2013, rates of obesity in the U.S. fell 0.15% in 2023 ...

7. Everything You Know About Obesity Is Not Wrong - AOL

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   Last week, HuffPost published a story called, " Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong." In it, the author, Michael Hobbes, weaves science and people's stories together to challenge popular ...

8. Diet and obesity - Wikipedia

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   A 2010 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition closely tracked 373,803 people over a period of 8 years across 10 countries. At its conclusion, the study reported that meat consumption (processed meat, red meat, & poultry) is positively associated with weight gain and increased abdominal obesity in men and women. [15]

9. Supersize US: Without ‘immediate action’ nearly 260 million ...

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   Researchers said the analysis lays bare a ‘decades-long-failure’ to tackle the overweight and obesity epidemic Supersize US: Without ‘immediate action’ nearly 260 million Americans will be ...