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The obesity rate has steadily increased since 1960–1962, where approximately 13% of American adults were obese. By 2014, figures from the CDC found that more than one-third (crude estimate 36.5%) of U.S. adults [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and 17% of children were obese. [ 11 ]
Obesity rates in the United States have nearly tripled since the 1960s. In 1962, about 13% of adult Americans were obese, [ 39 ] and by 2002, obesity rates reached 33% of the adult population. [ 40 ] According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study collected between the 1970s and 2004, the prevalence of overweight and obesity ...
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 ...
Nearly 60% of U.S. adults with obesity have high blood pressure and approximately 23% have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People with obesity are also at ...
The researchers found that the prevalence of adult obesity in the U.S. decreased from 46% in 2022 to 45.6% in 2023. ... “We got excited about down-trending pediatric obesity rates in the early ...
The portion size of many prepackage and restaurant foods has increased in both the United States and Denmark since the 1970s. [7] Fast food servings, for example, are 2 to 5 times larger than they were in the 1980s. Evidence has shown that larger portions of energy-dense foods lead to greater energy intake and thus to greater rates of obesity ...
Published in JAMA Health Forum on Friday, the study, "Changes in Adult Obesity Trends in the US," found that between 2022 and 2023, obesity in American adults between ages 26-75 dropped about 0.15%.
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 ...