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Obesity Health Articles
On these pages obesity health articles are featured since obesity
is another one of our national epidemics. Just ask the U. S. Center
for Disease Control (CDC).
| In 1999, the CDC published
a study in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
concerning the rise in obesity across all sectors on the nation
between 1991 and 1998 (Obesity is defined as those being above
30-percent of their ideal body weight). |
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The CDC cited an increase from 12-percent to 17.9 percent of the
total population with the largest increases in young people between
18 - 29 years old and in the southern regions of the country. Georgia
had the biggest increase in obesity during this period at 101-percent.
According to the study, 300,000 death per year were attributed to
obesity-related premature death, second only to tobacco-related
premature deaths in numbers.
In 2003, the CDC published a second study on obesity in JAMA, this
time citing that in 2001, the percentage of obese individuals had
risen to 20.9 percent of the population at large. Some states like
Colorado had an obesity rate as little as 14.4 percent while Mississippi
came in at a whopping 25.9 percent. The CDC also correlated the
cases of adult diabetes increased in parallel with the amount of
cases of obesity.
So, who else is suffering from obesity? The children, that is who.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), in
2002, 16-percent of children and adolescents ages 6 - 19 are overweight.
This is up from 6-percent in 1980.
So, what does all this mean? It means as a society, we are getting
more obese and experiencing more health problems because of the
obesity. We are starting our children young on overeating and non-nutritional
eating, setting them up for a lifetime of health problems. On these
pages we will introduce some obesity articles that relate to these
issues, so that together we may cut down on the fattening of America
and bring forward more sensible and nutritional lifestyles.
Whether its obesity you're interested in or other health-related
issues, we've compiled some interesting articles for your review.
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