Friday 19 October 2012

Severe obesity still rising fast in the U.S.

Women sit on bench in New York NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of Americans who are severely obese shot up by 70 percent in the past decade or so, though the increase has slowed down in more recent years, a new study finds. Between 2000 and 2010, the proportion of Americans who were severely obese - at least 100 pounds overweight - rose from 4 percent to almost 7 percent. The increase showed signs of slowing after 2005, researchers found. ...




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