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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]
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.
It was predicted that if these trends continue about 57.4% of men and 60.3% of women would be overweight or obese by 2050. Sex- and gender-based differences [226] influence the prevalence of obesity. Globally there are more obese women than men, but the numbers differ depending on how obesity is measured. [227] [228]
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.
Body fat percentage is total body fat expressed as a percentage of total body weight. There is no generally accepted definition of obesity based on total body fat. Most researchers have used >25% in men, and >30% in women, as cut-points to define obesity, [41] but the use of these values have been disputed. [42]