Physician Focus: Misconceptions Of Obesity

For more than a decade, obesity has been recognized as an epidemic condition in the United States, and the numbers certainly justify the characterization.Statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that more than 36 percent of adults have obesity, and a report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation declares that not a single state in the union has an adult obesity rate of less than 20 percent.

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