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Title: Exercise and Diet in Weight Management: Updating What Works (Editor's Choice) (Report)
Author : South African Journal of Sports Medicine
Release Date : January 01, 2011
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 86 KB

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Obesity prevalence has been increasing rapidly in nearly all nations, to the extent it is now considered a global epidemic. In the USA, the obesity prevalence rates (body mass index (BMI) 30) have doubled between 1986 and 2000, while severe (BMI 40) and super obesity (BMI 50) have increased fourfold to fivefold, (1) along with an alarming threefold increase in childhood overweight/obesity. (2) Although some evidence suggests that obesity levels in US children and adolescents may have plateaued and adult prevalence is slowing, the levels of overweight/obesity represent 66% of the US population. (3) Some have projected that 86% of the US adults could become overweight/obese by 2030, with an associated estimated total health cost of just under one trillion US dollars. (4) In the UK, the data are just as alarming, with adult overweight/obesity rates at 62%,5 with 90% of children predicted to be overweight/obese by 2050 with an associated total projected healthcare cost of 50 billion [pounds sterling]. (6)