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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According to a recent nationwide survey by medical software company Epocrates of nearly 600 physicians on the increasing rate of obesity in America, 58% said they believe higher health premiums for overweight adults would have a significant impact on reducing obesity.
According to government calculations, the rate of adolescent obesity has tripled in the country over the past two decades.
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Since the early 1980s, the rate of adult obesity in Britain has trebled.
Britain has the highest climbing rate of childhood obesity in Europe.
New studies appearing in major medical journals, for example, showed that the rate of overweight and obesity was continuing its climb, edging from 60 to 65 percent of the population.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
The rising rate of breast cancer diagnosis has been put down to a variety of factors including obesity and alcohol consumption.
This is despite the UK having the highest death rate from respiratory diseases, and the highest levels of obesity in Europe.
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.
But they add that the high rate of body fat among the relatives of the carriers suggests that the mutations do not, by themselves, account for obesity.
They said that the high rate of body fat among the relatives of carriers of the mutated gene suggested that mutations by themselves did not account for obesity.
City officials say New York's obesity rate is rising, having reached 24% of adults, up from 18% in 2002.
China, of course, has more people, and its obesity rate is far lower than America's.
Experts put the number of obese dogs at about 25 percent of the U.S. canine population, and with dog obesity on the rise, so too is the rate of dog diabetes.
For example, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a community dealing with an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes that has the highest rate of cardiovascular disease deaths in the nation, the award will help 1, 600 physicians and other providers participate in a new community-wide health information system that will help them better monitor and improve care transitions as patients move from one care setting to another.
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).
Sibutramine was first approved as an anti-obesity drug in 1997, but data from recent studies suggests a higher rate of heart attacks and strokes among people taking it.
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