Obesity is the Problem in the United States

Overweight and obesity are an important health issue in the United States, and has increased substantially over the last 2 decades.

In 2000, approx. 60 million people –close to 31% of adults aged 20 years and older- were obese, with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more.

By 2004, about 119 million Americans are either overweight or obese. That’s 64.5 percent of adult Americans.

Overweight and obesity are leading causes of diabetes, cardiovascular and other diseases, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke, colon cancer, post-menopausal breast cancer, endometrial cancer, gall bladder-disease, osteoarthritis, and obstructive sleep apnea.

Obesity costs so much to America. According to the Obesity Research conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the total cost of obesity reached $75 billion in 2003.

The medical cost of obesity in 2003 for California alone was $7.7 billion.

Overweight and obesity in the United States occur at higher rates in racial / ethnic minority populations such as African American and Hispanic Americans, compared with White Americans.

Women and persons of low socioeconomic status within minority populations appear to particularly be affected by overweight and obesity.

The problem is relevant into the Hispanic population. Acording to CDC data, the hispanic population was the most overweighted in the ethnic groups in 2000.

With more than 35.3 million Hispanics living in the United States, that means too much people.

Mexican American and African American adults in the U.S. are considerably more overweight and obese than white (non-Hispanic) adults.

The Hispanic population has high prevalence rates of overweight (73.4%) and 34.4% in obesity.

For men, the Mexican American population has the highest prevalence of overweight (74.4 percent) and obesity (29.4 percent).

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