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More than one in five American adults in every U.S. state are obese, with rates rising in many states, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sept. 12 ...
English: United States Map of Adult Obesity Prevalence by State (2013). Adult Obesity is the percentage of the adult population (age 20 and older) that reports a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2.
Prevalence of obesity in the adult population, top countries (2016), the United States has the tenth highest rate in the world. The CDC defines an adult (a person aged 20 years or greater) with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater as obese and an adult with a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9 as overweight. [4] Obesity in adults is divided into three ...
Currently, four in 10 adults in the U.S. have obesity, and nearly 20% of U.S. kids have obesity, according to the report. Report shows 23 states have reached 35% obesity rate; here’s how Texas fares
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For the first time in a decade, rates of adult obesity in the United States have dropped, a new study has found.. The study followed nearly 17 million people, the majority of whom were in the 26 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 is severely so, government researchers said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention findings come ...
English: Percent overweight in the United States of males including obese and extremely obese from 1962 to 2014. A relatively constant 40% (declining slightly) are overweight, but the percent of normal weight has declined, while obesity and extreme obesity have increased. Data from CDC