Obesity creeps up in US
Found on Physorg on Thursday, 17 July 2008
In 2005, 23.9 percent of adults in the United States were obese, or had a body mass index greater than 30, while in 2007, the percentage had grown to 25.6 percent, data issued by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) showed.
No state has achieved the official target to bring obesity down to 15 percent of the adult population by 2010, the report showed.
What do you expect from a nation that uses cars to walk their dogs? Perhaps the continuous increase of gas prices will help more than any other official attempts.