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34% of American Adults are Obese

Posted: January 10th 2009 By editor1         under: Food and Fitness, Health News     Tags: , , , , ,

The number of obese adults in America is much more than the number of those who are simply overweight in accordance to the latest statistics generated by the federal government.

The National Centre for Health Statistics has posted some numbers and according to them nearly 34% of American adults are adults as compared to 32.5% of those who are overweight. It is considered that only 6% of those could be called “extremely obese”.  The NCHS also added that more than one-third of the adult American population or approximately over 72 million people were obese in the year 2005-2006.

These numbers were generated on the basis of a survey where 4356 adults who happen to be above the age of 20 took part in this government health survey, confirmed the NCHS which is also the part of Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. These figures come from the survey conducted in 2005-2006 which is the most recent of all.

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