CHICAGO – America’s obesity epidemic is proving to be as stubborn as those maddening love handles, and shows no sign of reversing course.
More than one-third of adults and almost 17 percent of children were obese in 2009-2010, echoing results since 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday.
“It’s good that we didn’t see increases. On the other hand, we didn’t see any decreases in any group,” said CDC researcher Cynthia Ogden.
Early in the decade, slight increases were seen among white, black and Hispanic men, and among Hispanic and black women. These changes may be leveling off, but the authors said they “found no indication that the prevalence of obesity is declining in any group.”
In 2009-2010, more than 78 million adults and almost 13 million children aged 2-19 were obese, the CDC researchers reported.
The results were released online in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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