American adults just keep getting fatter | Miami Herald

American adults just keep getting fatter | Miami Herald:
"U.S. adults continue to put on the pounds. 
New data show that nearly 40 percent of them were obese in 2015 and 2016, a sharp increase from a decade earlier, federal health officials reported Friday.

The prevalence of severe obesity in U.S. adults is also rising, heightening their risks of developing heart disease, diabetes and various cancers. 

According to the latest data, published Friday in JAMA, 7.7 percent of U.S. adults were severely obese in the same period.

...Public health experts said that they were alarmed by the continuing rise in obesity among adults and by the fact that efforts to educate people about the health risks of a poor diet do not seem to be working..."
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