
31/01/2024
Hey everyone!
I'm shocked at how obesity rates have skyrocketed in the past 10 years in the US, since I retired from the Healthy Mind Fit Body podcast. Seems to be a huge problem that few are addressing.
Obesity rates in the United States
Research from the World Obesity Federation has shown that since 1960, the obesity and overweight rates in the United States has increased from 10.4% to 42.4% as last stated in the year 2018.
The United States of America obesity prevalence was 42.4% in 2017. In the last decades this country’s obesity prevalence has increased from 30.5% to 42.4%. And the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 4.7% to 9.2%. This data corresponds only to the United States of America, but is a great example of how this issue is growing globally.
What are your thoughts? How can we turn this trend around?