Obesity is a debilitating disease that has serious consequences and the Center for Disease Control has released some new information about the state of North America's obesity rate.
In their study, the CDC revealed that the U.S. seemed to be stuck when it comes to the rate of obesity.
The study took data from a three year long period, which ended last year and according to what the CDC has gathered the overall prevalence of obesity is at 36 percent.
This means that in every three American adults, one of them is obese.
But in a brighter side, the CDC has taken note that the prevalence of obesity has seemed to flattening out for the past few decades.
The prevalence of adult obesity between the years 2011 and 2014 was so slight in their difference that the CDC found the results to be "not statistically significant."
Childhood obesity as well has seemed to level off, the rate of childhood obesity in many states in North America has been significantly falling year after year.
"We are excited to see that our nationwide efforts to prevent childhood obesity have stopped the decades-long increase in childhood obesity rates," Howell Wechsler, CEO of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, said in a statement.
Deeper into the study the CDC has gathered information that gaining or retaining weight is clearly unavoidable for many middle-aged American, especially for middle-aged women.
In years 1999-2000 the prevalence of obesity in middle-aged women were 38 percent higher than that that of the middle-aged men.
The gender difference in the data is extremely new to the study, "This hasn't been the case for some years," Cynthia Ogden, study author and CDC epidemiologist, said.
Obesity is a big problem that the U.S. is facing, especially in the lower incomed Americans and minorities. Several health programs are underway to make sure that the obesity rates will decrease.
