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...American adults and 17% of kids had emphysema or heart disease, we'd hardly consider it a cause for celebration. But an announcement on Wednesday that that same share of us now qualify as obese - and that a whopping 68% of adults and 32% of kids are at least overweight - is being hailed as encouraging news. Why? Because the numbers aren't even higher...
...Control and Prevention (CDC). The first one, which focused on adults, surveyed 5,555 men and women age 20 and older, using their height and weight measurements to calculate what's known as body mass index (BMI). In general, people with a BMI of 25 to 29.9 are considered overweight, and those with a 30 or higher are obese...
...again from 1999 to 2000. But this study - which spans the period from 2000 to 2008 - showed no significant change. The burden of the weight gain that was documented in those other studies is not being borne evenly. Over 72% of men are overweight, compared with just over 64% of women. Yet women are worse off in the obesity category - 35.5%, compared with 32.2% for men. Ethnicity makes a difference too - sometimes a big one. The least obese women are non-Hispanic whites, at 33%; the worst-off are non-Hispanic blacks, at 49.6%. Among men, the range is smaller...
When Ella was overweight, Felitti learned, her husband was less suspicious. And her fear of his rage - perhaps he saw her new slimmer weight as a provocation? - was probably spurring her anxiety. (See a special report on the science of appetite...
Financial incentives are the latest wellness craze, inspiring at least some of the nearly two-thirds of Americans who are overweight or obese to try to ditch their potato chips. A few years ago, in an effort to cut overall health care costs, companies started dangling gift cards, free cruises and even cash prizes to employees who shed excess pounds. Now an independent website is offering to pay anyone who drops a certain amount of weight over the course of a year. (See the top 10 new diet books...