newsReporterJoined: 24 Mar 2005
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Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:56 pm Reply with quote
According to a consumer health group, obesity rates in the United States went up from 22 per cent in the period between 2001 and 2003 to 24.5 per cent between 2000 and 2002. The group, Trust for America’s Health, studying data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that obesity had gone up in all the 50 state of America with the exception of Oregon, where obesity rate remained steady at 21 per cent.
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cloningOkJoined: 25 Jul 2004
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Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:52 pm Reply with quote
Over weight rate is something like 60 - 70%. Crazy.
