About 17 percent of children are overweight and about a third of adults are obese. |
Basically, men are catching up to women. |
I didn't know if we would be able to detect an increase and I was surprised that we did. It's a concern, especially in children. |
I was particularly concerned about seeing the increase in children, because we know that children who are overweight often become obese adults. |
I was surprised that we could see an upward trend in such a short time among overweight children and obese men. |
It does look good for women. Obesity may be stabilizing. |
It looks like it's leveling off. |
It looks like it's leveling off. We'll need more data over the next few years to know for sure, but hopefully we'll see this continue, which would be terrific. |
It's during childhood that our patterns often are set. Overweight adolescents often become obese adults. |
Obviously there has to be some upper limit. I just don't know where it's going to be. |
There's good news and bad news. We're definitely nowhere near being out of the woods. |
We've seen an increase in obesity in men and we've seen an increase in overweight in both boys and girls. |