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Extreme Obesity - 50% Rise in Americans with Severe Obesity (VIDEO)
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A study by the RAND corporation revealed that the number of severely obese Americans has grown by nearly 50% from the same period last year. In short, America is becoming severly obese and lives are at stake. Doctors once thought that severe obesity was a rare occurence, but studies are showing that this life-threatening trend is on the rise at an alarming rate.
The U.S. obesity rate is growing fast — but the rate of extreme, morbid obesity is growing three times faster, a RAND study shows. Doctors, Sturm says, tend to think of morbid obesity as a relatively rare problem that affects a consistently small percentage of the population. But the new findings suggest this isn't so.
"Car-friendly (and bike/pedestrian-hostile) urban developments, desk jobs, television viewing, and relatively cheap, calorie-dense foods" are major factors in the U.S. obesity epidemic, Sturm says. "Environmental interventions to counter the obesity epidemic, similar to tobacco and alcohol policy, would be needed."
(cbsnews)
Read More: dimensionsmagazine Via: cbsnews
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