CDC: Kids, men are fatter; women's obesity peaking

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/health/chi-0604050172apr05,1,7122618.story

CDC: Kids, men are fatter; women's obesity peaking

Children are getting fatter, and so are men of all ages, government researchers have found in an analysis that weighed in on the question of the nation's growing waistlines.

But scientists from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the prevalence of obesity among women seems to have peaked.

Going into their latest research, CDC epidemiologists were armed with data from the past. Between 1980 and 2002, the prevalence of obesity doubled in U.S. adults 20 and older. The prevalence of overweight children tripled.

In her new analysis, reported Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, epidemiologist Cynthia Ogden examined weight and height measurements for 3,958 children and teens, 2 to 19, and 4,431 adults, 20 years or older.

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1. Eating More and Taking Medication To Sleep

is this what we have become??? too sad, not fit, and not being able to sleep? is this what this government is doing to the American people. Or is it we will not fight back because our bellies are too full???? what will it take?

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