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"This suggests that people from the South come closer to telling the truth than people from other regions, perhaps because there's not the social stigma of being obese in the South as there is in other regions." [99] The area of the United States with the highest obesity rate is American Samoa (75% obese and 95% overweight). [100]
While some people think lack of exercise is to blame for our expanding waistlines, others think it's entirely about the kind of food we eat. However, a new study has found a very simple reason to ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that obesity rates have more than doubled worldwide since 1990 and that currently, around 890 million people live with obesity. These obesity statistics ...
The most recent combined Eurostat statistics, for 2009, show that, among the 19 EU Member States for which data are available, the proportion of obese people in the adult population varied in 2008/9 between 8.0% (Romania) and 23.9% (UK) for women and between 7.6% (Romania) and 24.7% (Malta) for men. Overall the UK had the highest proportions ...
A new study found that the number of overweight people is now greater than the number of underweight people in the world.
On average obese people have a greater energy expenditure than normal weight or thin people and actually have higher basal metabolic rates. [45] [46] This is because it takes more energy to maintain an increased body mass. [47] Obese people also underreport how much food they consume compared to those of normal weight. [48]
And, in a remarkable finding, rich people of color have higher rates of cardiovascular disease than poor people of color—the opposite of what happens with white people. One explanation is that navigating increasingly white spaces, and increasingly higher stakes, exerts stress on racial minorities that, over time, makes them more susceptible ...
In people with greater degrees of obesity, however, risk of further events is increased. [20] [21] Even after cardiac bypass surgery, no increase in mortality is seen in the overweight and obese. [22] [23] One study found that the improved survival could be explained by the more aggressive treatment obese people receive after a cardiac event. [24]