This article originally appeared on Time.com.
More than a third of American adults are obese, yet new research shows that fewer people are trying to lose weight now than in the past.
In the research letter, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers looked at about 27,000 overweight or obese Americans who reported trying to lose weight in the last year. The report looked at responses from three different time periods: 1988-1994, 1999-2004 and 2009-2014.
More adults were obese or overweight in the later years of the study. But the number of people who said they were...
More than a third of American adults are obese, yet new research shows that fewer people are trying to lose weight now than in the past.
In the research letter, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers looked at about 27,000 overweight or obese Americans who reported trying to lose weight in the last year. The report looked at responses from three different time periods: 1988-1994, 1999-2004 and 2009-2014.
More adults were obese or overweight in the later years of the study. But the number of people who said they were...
- 3/8/2017
- by Alexandra Sifferlin
- PEOPLE.com
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