Phentermine Article
America’s population has not always been overweight. It is only with the passage of time that obesity has spread like an inescapable disease. In 1963 only 13% of the American population was obese. The problem was that there has never been a reduction in this number. The number of obese individuals was always on the rise. By 1981 the number had gone up to 15% and by 2000 23% of the population had become obese. In the recently released report by ‘Trust for America’s Health’ it has been found that 24.5% of the Americans are obese.
These figures suggest that the obesity policies of the government are not working and the waist sizes of Americans are only going up. If you thought that the obesity figures were bad and it couldn’t get any worse, then you are mistaken. 64.5% of the population is overweight and are on the verge of becoming obese. This means that the obesity figures are only going up!
A Summary of the figures is as follows:
- Percentage of American adults who are obese: 24.5%
- Percentage of Americans adults who are obese or overweight: 64.5%
- State with the biggest percentage of obese adults: Mississippi 29.5%
- State with the smallest percentage of obese adults: Colorado 16%
This is how the states rank in terms of percentage of obese adults:
1. Mississippi: 29.5%
2. Alabama: 28.9%
3. West Virginia: 27.6%
4. Tennessee: 27.2%
5. Louisiana: 27%
6. Arkansas: 26.1%
7. Kentucky: 25.8%
8. Texas: 25.8%
9. Indiana: 25.5%
10. Michigan: 25.4%
11. Ohio: 25.3%
12. South Carolina: 25.1%
13. Missouri: 24.9%
14. Oklahoma: 24.9%
15. Georgia: 24.7%
16. North Dakota: 24.6%
17. Pennsylvania: 24.3%
18. North Carolina: 24.2%
19. Maryland: 23.9%
20. South Dakota: 23.8%
21. Alaska: 23.7%
22. Iowa: 23.5%
23. Maine: 23.4%
24. Kansas: 23.2%
25. Nebraska: 23.2%
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26. Wisconsin: 23.2%
27. Virginia: 23.1%
28. Illinois: 23%
29. Florida: 22.9%
30. Minnesota: 22.6%
31. Washington, D.C.: 22.5%
32. California: 22.2%
33. Washington: 22.2%
34. New York: 22.1%
35. New Jersey: 21.9%
36. New Hampshire: 21.6%
37. New Mexico: 21.5%
38. Arizona: 21.2%
39. Oregon: 21.2%
40. Delaware: 21.1%
41. Nevada: 21.1%
42. Idaho: 20.8%
43. Wyoming: 20.8%
44. Utah: 20.4%
45. Massachusetts: 18.4%
46. Connecticut: 19.7%
47. Montana: 19.7%
48. Rhode Island: 19%
49. Vermont: 18.7%
50. Colorado: 16.8%
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The main cause for this rise is the sedentary lifestyle that the Americans have got used to. Even their eating habits have deteriorated. People just don’t know about the grave dangers associated with being obese. Even loosing 10 percent of the body weight can result in significant improvement in a person’s health.
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