Study Sees Signs of Obesity Rates Stalling

Obesity rates in women stayed steady since 1999. The rates in men may be leveling off too. Obesity rates have held at about 35% since 1999. Men’s rates increased until 2003, and they hit 33 percent and the rates stayed there through 2006. Obesity is a body mass index, that is measured by weight and height. Example of this is if someone is 5 feet 6 inches tall they would be obese at the weight 186 pounds. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a goal for the obesity to be no more than 15% by 2010. The last time that rate was seen was 1980. Obesity rates varies with age the highest rates were people from 40-59, and 40% of men were obese and 41% of women were. In women the rates also varied with ethnicity. Whites, Aferican-Americans, and Mexican-American women had the highest rates. About half were obese when they hit their 40s and 50s.







In 1929 there was a great depression after the Stock Market Crashed. The Great Depression happened all over the world where people could not get jobs or food. During the deprssion poeple could not get food and they were starving, and some people where starving to death. During this time people were thin and by the 1980's people started to become over weigh. In the 1990's it got even worse.