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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. [2]
Obesity has been observed throughout human history. Many early depictions of the human form in art and sculpture appear obese. [2] However, it was not until the 20th century that obesity became common — so much so that, in 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic [3] and estimated that the worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly tripled ...
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:USObesityRate1960-2004.gif licensed with Cc-pd-mark-footer, PD-USGov, PD-USGov-HHS-CDC . 2009-01-24T03:31:38Z Jrissman 432x350 (16557 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=This is a graph showing the rate of obesity in adults and the rate of being overweight in both children and adults in the United States from 1960 - 2004 ...
Obesity is costing us big time. Three times more Americans are obese now than were in 1960. Six times more Americans are now extremely obese than a half-century ago. Unfortunately, everyone is ...
1950: 9,314,453 +10.4%: 1960: ... The six states of New England have the lowest birth rate in the U ... Data from 2008 comparing national obesity rates by state, ...
A new study finds that females born in the early 2000s started menstruating around 6 months earlier than those born during the 1950s and 60s. This trend is more pronounced in non-Hispanic Black ...
The survey found that the obesity rate was 42% — higher than the 40% found in a similar 2015-16 study. The severe obesity rate was more than 9% in the new survey, up from the 8% figure in the ...
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