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Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016. Obesity is common in the United States and is a major health issue associated with numerous diseases, specifically an increased risk of certain types of cancer, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease, as well as significant increases in early mortality and economic costs.
Meredith "Meme" Roth (née Clements) [1] is an anti-obesity activist and founder of the National Action Against Obesity, a campaign that she runs out of her home in Manhattan. [1] Roth has appeared on Fox News , [ 2 ] CNN , CNBC , [ 3 ] Penn & Teller: Bullshit! , and Dr. Phil to discuss her views on health and obesity .
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World is a 2003 non-fiction book by Greg Critser describing how 60% of Americans came to be overweight and exploring the relationship between the relentless rise of fast food corporations and increasing sizes in the American diet, along with misguided government policies and poor nutritional education in schools.
Results of the study indicate that Black women in the U.S., ages 66-75, saw the largest decrease in obesity between 2022-2023.
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 ...
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 ...
Being overweight has been shown not to increase mortality [qualify evidence] in older people: in a study of 70 to 75-year old Australians, mortality was lowest for "overweight" individuals (BMI 25 to 29.9), [18] while a study of Koreans found that, among those initially aged 65 or more, an increase in BMI to above 25 was not associated with ...
A new study found that the number of overweight people is now greater than the number of underweight people in the world.