Research indicates that a significant percentage of children who are obese remain obese into adulthood. In studies conducted in communities like Bogalusa, around 60-70% of obese children are likely to become obese adults. This highlights the importance of early intervention and preventive measures to address childhood obesity.
Indications are that an estimated 66 percent of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese and 16.3% of children are obese.
No theres not. And its all what you feed your kids. What they grow up on.
36.9 in 2008 And 20% to 25% of Australia adults are obese, even more are seriously overweight. Since 1995 to 1997 the obese record has double.
63.1% of adults in the U.S. were either overweight or obese in 2009 and is getting increasingly worse.not all children in the us are obese a goodbit are but not all. a few people think all children are.16% to 33% as of 2010
According to the CDC, about 34% of American adults are obese.
1. It could make children and adults overweight or obese
The United States of America has the highest obesity rates in the world. 64% of adults in the United States of America are overweight or obese. For information about the causes of weight gain, and obesity, see the page links, further down this page, listed under Related Questions.
Two-thirds of all adults and about a third of all children and teenagers in the United States are overweight or obese according to a report release Thursday by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Almost 41 million women and more than 37 million men aged 20 and over were obese in 2009-2010 (Figure 3). Among children and adolescents aged 2-19, more than 5 million girls and approximately 7 million boys were obese. (Figures are from the CDC)
1. It could make children and adults overweight or obese
If you watch what you eat, and stay healthy - despite your parents -- you can stay away from obesity.
There are 31.7% of obese children in America.