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| Is Obesity an Epidemic? |
Webster's dictionary defines an epidemic as a widely spreading disease that effects a large portion of a community. By any criteria you use, obesity is widely spreading. Here are some facts: |
- Obesity rates in the United States are up 50% in the last 10 years
- Morbidly Obesity (BMI > 40) rates in the United States are up 400% in the last 10 years
- Childhood Obesity rates in the United States are up 400% in the last 40 years
- Adult diabetes occurring in the youth (MODY) rates in the United States are up 600% in the last 10 years
- 65% of adults in the United States are now overweight or obese
- In the year 2000, for the first time in history, more people worldwide were overweight than underweight
- In the next 10 years, 500 million more people worldwide will become overweight according the World Health Organization
- Direct costs attributable to obesity are over $115 billion dollars a year in the United States alone.