United States: Data from the US CDC show that obesity in the United States has fallen for the first time since 2011.
The report showed that Colorado is the slimmest state in the entire country. This report from the CDC for September 24 looks at obesity data between August 2021 and August 2023; they reveal that 40.3 percent of American adults had obesity in this period – that is, two of every five adults.
That might still be a bit shocking, but it is actually lower than a 2020 CDC estimated rate of 41.9 percent.
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The story is a bit different in Colorado however which at 24.9 this year 2023 boasted the lowest rate of adult obesity in the country bar none as it stood in the District of Columbia, denvergazette.com reported.
With this a reflection that as many as one-quarter of the adults in the state were obese. Obesity prevalence was 23.5 percent in DC in 2023, and West Virginia’s rate was the highest with 41.2 percent of the population.
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Most are familiar with the many diseases that obesity often induces – heart disease, cancer, or diabetes, not to mention that obesity can significantly reduce life expectancy.
Overweight is considered to be the fifth killer in the world and kill 10 years shortening human life.
The sources of life expectancy show that now Americans born in the year 2022 have an expected life of 77.5 years.
If that ’10-year decrease’ is accurate it means that a person born in 2022 who became obese would be used to live by 13 percent less life and would die around 67.5, denvergazette.com reported.
So for once, it appears that obesity rates are at last no longer rising and have possibly even dipped slightly in the US. This is while no other state in the entire country has less than 23 percent of the adult population being obese.