America is getting fatter. A Center For Disease Control study tracked 5,000 adults from 2017 and 2018 and found that 42 percent are obese while one in ten of those people are considered severely obese.
The U.S. obesity rate is two percent higher than the final numbers from a same C-D-C study taken between 2015 and 2016 and the severe obesity rate is up 8-percent.
Woman are considered obese if they are 5 feet 4 inches tall and weigh 174 pounds and severely obese if they are 232 pounds at that height.
Men are considered obese if they are 5-9 and 203 pounds and severely obese if they check in at 270Lbs at that same height.
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