Obesity has serious health consequences including increased risk for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke and many types of cancers. Obesity and its impact on health including COVID-19 risks This year’s pandemic has shown that these conditions don’t only increase the risk of obesity and chronic illnesses, they also increase the risk of the most serious COVID outcomes.” – John Auerbach, President and CEO of Trust for America’s Health. Those conditions include poverty, unemployment, segregated housing and racial discrimination. “Solving the country’s obesity crisis will require addressing the conditions in people’s lives that lead to food insecurity and create obstacles to healthy food options and safe physical activity. Asian adults have an overall 17.4 percent obesity rate. The obesity rates for white adults is 42.2 percent. Latinx adults have an obesity rate of 44.8 percent. Black adults have the highest level of adult obesity nationally at 49.6 percent that rate is driven in large part by an adult obesity rate among Black women of 56.9 percent. Socioeconomic factors such as poverty and discrimination have contributed to higher rates of obesity among certain racial and ethnic populations. Rural communities have higher rates of obesity and severe obesity than do suburban and metro areas. Individuals with less education were also more likely to have obesity. Generally, the data show that the more a person earns the less likely they are to have obesity. Furthermore, children are exhibiting earlier onset of what used to be considered adult conditions, including hypertension and high cholesterol.ĭemographic trends and the conditions in people’s lives have a large impact on their ability to maintain a healthy weight. Being overweight or having obesity as a young person puts them at higher risk for having obesity and its related health risks as an adult. In the mid-1970s, 5.5 percent of young people had obesity. young people, ages 2 to 19, have obesity. Rates of childhood obesity are also increasing with the latest data showing that 19.3 percent of U.S. As recently as 2012, no state had an adult obesity rate above 35 percent in 2000 no state had an adult obesity rate above 25 percent. Twelve states have adult rates above 35 percent, they are: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. Mississippi has the highest adult obesity rate in the country at 40.8 percent and Colorado has the lowest at 23.8 percent. Obesity rates vary considerably between states and regions of the country. The national adult obesity rate has increased by 26 percent since 2008.īased in part on newly released 2019 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BFRSS) and analysis by TFAH, this report provides an annual snapshot of rates of overweight and obesity nationwide including by age, gender, race and state of residence. adult obesity rate stands at 42.4 percent, the first time the national rate has passed the 40 percent mark, and further evidence of the country’s obesity crisis.
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