Why Americans Are Overweight and What to Do About It
Yummy, yummy, yummy, see my obese tummy! should perhaps be Americas new national anthem.
How Overweight Is America?
How serious is obesity in America? According to Kathleen Donnelly for MSN Health & Fitness, statistics show that 60 percent of adult Americans weigh too much, and 17 percent of American children and teens are overweight.
And the problem continues to escalate. In the past thirty years, children in the USA are increasingly tipping the scales. The rise of obesity among children between the ages of 6 and 11 has gone from 4% to 13 % in three decades. Obesity in US children ages 12 to 19 has gone from 5% to 14%. And if a child is obese at the age of 6, it has a 50/50 chance of being obese for life. Obese thirteen year olds have a 75% likelihood of being obese for the rest of their lives. This problem is even more severe among blacks and Hispanics.
To remedy their plight, 103,000 morbidly obese Americans living in the United States had gastric bypass surgery in 2003. The complication rate was 7%.
What causes obesity?
Several causes for obesity have been...
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