73% of U.S. Population Overwieght or Obese
Saturday January 10, 2009
The latest National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in the United States has found at 72.9% of the country's population is overweight, obese, or extremely obese. The big news from this study is that more people over 20 years of age are now obese (34.3%) versus those who are simply overweight (32.7%). LiveScience has more.
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To give a sense of how drastic have been the changes, I cannot recall more than perhaps three or four students among 1,600 in my high school who were obese. A good friend of mine was the uncontested heaviest member of the football team at a solid 220. At the other end of the eating scale I can only recall one girl who was likely anorexic. So much for the genes excuse.(1941-1945)