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For adult Latina women the rate was 50.6%, making them second to African-American women. [71] Within the Hispanic or Latino category, obesity statistics for Mexican or Mexican Americans were provided, with no breakdown by sex. [68] The obesity rate for Mexican or Mexican Americans adults (over 30 BMI) in the US in 2015 was 35.2%. [68]
The average body weight of women in America has been steadily increasing over the past few decades. According to national surveys, about 42 percent of U.S. women have obesity and an additional 27 ...
About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 is severely so, government researchers said Thursday. ... the average height for U.S. women, is considered obese at a weight of 174 ...
A survey in 2007 showed 63% of Americans were then overweight or obese, with 26% in the obese category (a BMI of 30 or more). By 2014, 37.7% of adults in the United States were obese, 35.0% of men and 40.4% of women; class 3 obesity (BMI over 40) values were 7.7% for men and 9.9% for women. [30]
Women are almost 40 percent more likely than men to report difficulty walking. More women than men report having a chronic medical condition. Females age 12 and older are more likely than males to report experiencing depression. More than one-third of all women age 20 and older are obese.
More than 40 percent of Americans classified as obese now say they experience stigma on a daily basis, a rate far higher than any other minority group. And this does terrible things to their bodies. According to a 2015 study , fat people who feel discriminated against have shorter life expectancies than fat people who don't.
Between 2020 and 2023, obesity rates in the U.S. fell by about two percentage points—no small feat when considering the quick and relentless climb in prior decades.
This is a list of countries by obesity rate, with data from the World Health ... Percentage of adults with obesity (BMI ≥ 30) 1 Tonga: 70.54 2 Nauru: 70.18 3 Tuvalu: