Food & Health Facts

Fact #1: A Big Fat Crisis

By Matthew Rees

Food and Health Fact #1: A Big Fat Crisis

From 1976-2016, the adult obesity rate in the United States rose from 12.2 percent to 36.2 percent. This was the largest absolute increase of any country in the world (except for a few small South Pacific island nations). Source: The World Health Organization

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