New study looks at why obesity is on the rise in younger people.
from 30.5 percent of adults in 1999 to 41.9 percent of adults in 2020. Severe obesity has almost doubled from 4.7 to 9.2 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .by the CDC looked at body mass index rates of more than 430,000 kids and teens between 2018 and 2020. During the first seven months after the pandemic started, the increases in monthly BMI rates nearly doubled.
Pandemic stresses helped explain why many kids gained weight in 2020. A nationwide study published inBut a longitudinal study has found that American adults have been steadily gaining weight in the past decade — well before the terms “lockdown” or “social distancing” had entered the lexicon.analyzed data for more than 13,000 adults from the years 2011-2018.
By the end of the study, 51 percent of people in the sample gained at least five percent of their body weight. Of those who put on pounds, more than 35 percent gained at least 10 percent of their body weight. A person who weighed in at 200 pounds in 2011, for example, went up to 220 by 2018. The authors were also surprised by the age when people in the sample started to gain weight. Instead of staying slim as younger adults and then putting on pounds in middle age, younger people had the highest weight gain.
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