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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has announced that it will host its first conference on obesity prevention and control. The conference, titled Weight of the Nation, will be held July 27-29, 2009, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The United States leads the world in obesity rate, with 30.6 percent of all adults in America are now considered medically obese with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30. Healthy body weight is reflected by a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 in the United States. A BMI between 25 and 30 is considered to be overweight in the US. The National Heart, Lung and Blood institute has an online BMI calculator.
The CDC’s U.S. Obesity Trends chart shows that American obesity has risen drastically from 1985-2007. Colorado is the only state with an obesity rate of less than 20%. The federal government’s Weight-control Information Network says that “About two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight, and almost one-third are obese, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001 to 2004.”
According the conference literature, “Weight of the Nation is designed to provide a forum to highlight progress in the prevention and control of obesity through policy and environmental strategies.” Some critics point out that the statistics clearly show that there has been no progress made on this issue and that the conference might better be used to create some policy and strategies to help fight the obesity epidemic.
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