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Overweight
Statistics -
According
to recent studies that were published in the Annals of
Internal Medicine (2002), Americans born during the early
1960s are likely to become obese earlier in life than those
born in the late 1950s, while black women and Hispanic men
face the greatest overall risks for obesity.
The study
of 9,179 people (now in their late 30’s and early 40s) found
subjects born in 1964 were consistently heavier at specific
ages than those born eight years earlier in 1957.
Researchers
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also
found the younger group became obese while in their late 20s
- 26 percent to 28 percent sooner than the older group,
which staved off obesity until their early to mid-30s.
The results
confirm the extent of obesity in the United States which is
raising concern about the prospects for weight-related
problems such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes,
cancer and depression.
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