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...tour of any mall or beach offers proof: two-thirds of Americans are overweight, and half are obese. What can be done...
TALKING TO KIDS: Six tips can help parents deal with the tricky issue of overweight children...
...staff of TIME's science section has had to put up with a lot of ribbing lately as we put the finishing touches on this week's issue. There's something about being overweight--or, as it turns out, writing about people who are overweight--that seems to bring out the comedian in everyone. But obesity in the U.S. is no laughing matter, and as we've watched the country's waistline grow over the years, we've struggled with how to cover what has become America's greatest health challenge. It wasn't enough anymore to just describe...
Even so, the actual numbers are shocking. Fully two-thirds of U.S. adults are officially overweight, and about half of those have graduated to full-blown obesity. The rates for African Americans and Latinos are even higher. Among kids between 6 and 19 years old, 15%, or 1 in 6, are overweight, and another 15% are headed that way. Even our pets are pudgy: a depressing 25% of dogs and cats are heavier than they should...
...things haven't been moving in a promising direction. Just two decades ago, the incidence of overweight in adults was well under 50%, while the rate for kids was only a third what it is today. From 1996 to 2001, 2 million teenagers and young adults joined the ranks of the clinically obese (see "What Is BMI?"). People are clearly worried. A TIME/ABC News poll released this week shows that 58% of Americans would like to lose weight, nearly twice the percentage who felt that way in 1951. But only 27% say they are trying to slim down...