It looks like America isn't winning its war on obesity. More than two-thirds of Americans are now either obese or overweight, according to a new study.
Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who studied data of more than 15,000 adults from 2007 to 2012, found that 40 percent of men were overweight and 35 percent of men were obese. They estimate that 30 percent of women were overweight and 37 percent were obese.
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