{"id":184019,"date":"2010-01-14T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021519673330908753.post-1438416541879101293"},"modified":"2010-01-15T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:23:37","slug":"obesity-rates-hit-plateau-in-u-s-data-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/184019","title":{"rendered":"Obesity Rates Hit Plateau in U.S., Data Suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Americans, at least as a group, may have reached their peak of obesity, according to data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Skip to next paragraph<\/span> The numbers indicate that obesity rates have remained constant for at least five years among men and for closer to 10 years among women and children \u2014 long enough for experts to say the percentage of very overweight people has leveled off.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the percentages have topped out at very high numbers. Nearly 34 percent of adults are obese, more than double the percentage 30 years ago. The share of obese children tripled during that time, to 17 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRight now we\u2019ve halted the progress of the obesity<\/a> epidemic,\u201d said Dr. William H. Dietz, director of the division of nutrition, physical activity and obesity at the disease control centers. \u201cThe data are really promising.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat said, I don\u2019t think we have in place the kind of policy or environmental changes needed to reverse this epidemic just yet.\u201d Read more…<\/span><\/a>
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Americans, at least as a group, may have reached their peak of obesity, according to data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Wednesday. Skip to next paragraph The numbers indicate that obesity rates have remained constant for at least five years among men and for closer to 10 years among women and children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}