American Obesity Rate Continues to Climb — Is Surgery the Answer?

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By Dr. Mercola

By Dr. Mercola

According to the latest statistics1,2 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), based on the largest health survey in the U.S., more Americans are obese and diabetic than ever before.

Among adults aged 20 and older, the obesity rate was 30.4 percent in 2015, up by half a percent from the year before. While that’s not a huge jump, it’s the continuation of a trend that began in 1997, at which time 19.4 percent of adult Americans were obese.

Two even more recent studies3 published in the Journal of …read more

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