China, of course, has more people, and its obesity rate is far lower than America's.
Near three quarters of all states had an obesity rate of at least 25%.
As of last year, no single state had an obesity rate of less than 20%.
And the national childhood obesity rate has leveled off, and even declined in some cities and states.
The city's obesity rate is rising, and studies have linked sugary drinks to weight gain, they note.
In a 1990 CDC study, not a single state had an obesity rate greater than 15 percent.
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If fast food prices were increased by a mere 10 percent, the obesity rate would decrease by 0.7 percent.
City officials say New York's obesity rate is rising, having reached 24% of adults, up from 18% in 2002.
As Michelle Trudeau reports the research comes at a time when the obesity rate among children has more than doubled.
In the U.S., the obesity rate is 30.5% and about 65% are considered overweight, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
Imagine that in a state with the highest obesity rate in America!
And the Tex-Mex diet has contributed to a thirty-eight-per-cent obesity rate.
Over the ensuing decades, consumption of fat by Americans duly decreased, sugar and sweetener consumption went up, and the obesity rate has more than doubled.
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In a bit of good news, the study confirmed earlier research that the childhood obesity rate appears to be leveling off after several decades of increases.
In defending the rule, city officials point to the city's rising obesity rate about 24 percent of adults, up from 18 percent in 2002 and to studies tying sugary drinks to weight gain.
In explaining the cola crackdown, officials cite the city's rising obesity rate about 24 percent of adults, up from 18 percent in 2002 and point to studies linking sugary drinks to weight gain.
The obesity rate among Japanese women remained below 5 percent, the rate among Italian women stayed below 10 percent, and the rates for women in the remaining countries were between 10 and 25 percent in 2003.
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He argues, not unreasonably, that making it easier for people to ride bicycles, as he does, would improve the quality of life, make everyone healthier and lessen Arkansas's obesity rate one of the highest in the country.
Unfortunately this is also one vice where the U.S. is near to the top of the lists, as America now has the highest adult obesity rate in the developed world at 34%, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
The issue related to the obesity death rate not being quite as bad is not likely about leg fat being better than other fat.
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Meanwhile, Mississippi scored at or near the bottom on 11 of the 22 survey measures, showing a high prevalence of obesity, high rate of childhood poverty, low high school graduation rates, limited availability of primary care physicians and many preventable hospitalizations.
Mississippi has the nation's highest rate of obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the most recent report by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Mississippi had the nation's highest rate of obesity.
The rate of obesity in Britain has more than doubled since 1980, according to Tim Gill, secretary of an international task force that studies the subject.
They found that the rate of obesity among the women, who were aged 50 when the study took place, was higher than in the general population.
Another way to look at it is that nonsmokers in the highest social class have a higher rate of obesity (13.3%) than smokers in the lowest social class (13.1%).
By contrast, the rate of obesity -- a leading cause of type 2 diabetes in this age group -- was largely flat over the same time period, as previous CDC reports have shown.
During the 1990s, when the American government paid for around 1, 800 women to move out of public housing, the women who had moved showed a 20% lower rate of obesity and diabetes than those who had not.
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