Obesity and Overweight Information

* If every picture tells a story, then the one below tells a chilling tale about an epidemic of obesity that poses a major public health problem. In 1991, obese adults made up less than 15 percent of the population in most U.S. states. Ten years later, only one state could claim that distinction. During this span, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System recorded a 61 percent increase in obesity. Today, an estimated 108 million adult Americans weigh more than is healthy.

Even more alarming, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents is on the rise, and children are becoming overweight and obese at earlier ages. An estimated 13-14 percent of children aged 6 to 19 years are considered overweight or obese. Early obesity not only increases the likelihood of adult obesity, and it also increases the prevalence of weight-related risk factors for cardiovascular disease such as hypertension, elevated serum cholesterol, and insulin resistance. Overweight is at least partly responsible for the dramatic increase in diagnoses of type 2 diabetes mellitus (formerly called adult-onset diabetes) among children. In some parts of the United States., more than 30 percent of new cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus are in children, and most of these are attributable to obesity.*

 

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*Information from Harvard school of public health. May 24th, 2005