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Study Finds More Men and Children Are Overweight

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Kids and their dads seem to be getting fatter, but Mom has leveled off.

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found more Americans than ever are overweight. But the growth is almost all coming from children and men.

As a group, government figures showed more women are obese. But they’re holding steady.

The director of the CDC’s Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity said “women have always been more responsible about health.” And he hopes this shows “women are leading the way in
recognizing obesity as a health threat.”

The CDC report appears in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association.

It found 71 percent of men were overweight in 2003-to-2004 and nearly a-third obese. For women, 62 percent were overweight, with a-third obese.

Nearly one in five boys from ages two-to-19 were seriously overweight or obese. A slightly smaller percentage of girls fell into that category.

Source: News10.net

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