Obesity Epidemic Sweeping US


	Obesity Epidemic Sweeping US

Gul Agha

7-1-2009 6:33 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/63c5508c-97ed-4e90-b8e5-f491fd041e60/DCE3B1F4-FD70-4126-BA26-F3D4EFDB84B5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/95ED3D10-2EFF-43CB-80FB-4682BBDF0F45" alt="Early obesity raises pancreatic cancer risk: study" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings"><P>WASHINGTON – Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: <SPAN id="lw_1246486129_0" class="yshortcuts">obese baby boomers</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings"><P>It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news. In 31 states, more than one in four adults are obese, says a new report from the <SPAN id="lw_1246486129_1" class="yshortcuts">Trust for America's Health</SPAN> and the <SPAN id="lw_1246486129_2" class="yshortcuts">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings">While the nation has long been bracing for a surge in Medicare as the boomers start turning 65, the new report makes clear that fat, not just age, will fuel much of those bills. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings">The <SPAN id="lw_1246486129_10" class="yshortcuts">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</SPAN> has long said that nearly a third of Americans are obese</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings"><P>_Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity, 32.5 percent, for the fifth year in a row.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings">highest rate of overweight and <SPAN id="lw_1246486129_13" class="yshortcuts">obese children</SPAN>, at 44.4 percent</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings"><P>_In 1991, no state had more than a 20 percent obesity rate. Today, the only state that doesn't is Colorado, at 18.9 percent.
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