It is not the bubonic plague and you get burgers, step blood thirst, rats but the United States is double-chin deep in an epidemic of obesity.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of United States, obesity has increased considerably over the last 20 years. Only the Colorado and the district of Columbia have a rate of obesity less than 20%.
But researchers today total obesity in the United States reach 42%.
Published in the journal public library of science scientific PLoS Computational Biology predict the number of obese people to United States for "top out", 42% for the next 40 years. Up to 8% compared to 34% 2007 prediction.
Obesity is defined as an index of Bodymass index (BMI) greater than 30.
For the study, a mathematical model was applied to four decades of data obtained from the Framingham study. study long-term bearing on the health and lifestyle of almost an entire town in Massachusetts.
Data also found an association between obesity and the friends you keep. Researchers say an American has an additional 0.5% chance of becoming obese with every obese social contact, i.e. the friend, they do every year.
The severity of obesity in the United States varies from one State to another. CDC data shows Southern States tend to be the fattest.
Obesity is taking a toll on the economy too. CDC data puts the total cost associated with obesity at 92.6 billion health care spending. IEA, buy lots of hamburgers and French fries... with a diet coke course.
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