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"This suggests that people from the South come closer to telling the truth than people from other regions, perhaps because there's not the social stigma of being obese in the South as there is in other regions." [96] The area of the United States with the highest obesity rate is American Samoa (75% obese and 95% overweight). [97]
With higher representation of black people being categorized as overweight by the BMI, the social stigma of obesity disproportionately affects black people. [100] More than 80% of African American women are categorized as overweight using the Body Mass Index.
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 ...
Similar findings have been made in other types of heart disease. People with class I obesity and heart disease do not have greater rates of further heart problems than people of normal weight who also have heart disease. In people with greater degrees of obesity, however, the risk of further cardiovascular events is increased.
Only a handful of fat people have ever showed up; most of the time, thin folks sit around brainstorming about how to be better allies. I ask Harrop why she thinks the group has been such a bust. It’s simple, she says: “Fat people grow up in the same fat-hating culture that non-fat people do.”
Obesity has become a common health problem. It affects about one in five children and two out of five adults in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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 ...
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.