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About 60% of the country is overweight, 186,600,000 people; then around 27% of those people are obese (because then that would mean 87% of the country is not of normal weight which is incorrect, so take 27% of the 60%.) so 50,382,000 people in the US are obese.

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you'd be surprised the answer is no. 1 out of 5 are obese though

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