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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Obesity Rates Leveling

Though obesity rates for kids haven't been released yet, the rates for adults show promise. Based on surveys and physical examinations of about 4,400 adults, it appears that obesity rates are beginning to plateau. That's good news considering the fact that rates have steadily increased since the 1908s.
"In generalizing the results to the U.S. population, researchers calculated a margin of error that swallows up the differences between years. In other words, the increases were not considered statistically significant."
The new report compared four years' worth of data.

Read more at LATimes.com.

Labels: obesity_rates, healthy_living, health_care

Posted By: Aspen Education Group