Para lá caminhamos, a nível nacional, e particularmente a nível regional, pelo que muita gente deveria estar preocupada, mais que não fosse porque isso ajuda a redundar num conjunto de doenças duras tais como os cancros que, segundo parece, estas, preocupam mesmo os governantes .... as outras doenças duras não foram referidas pelo Expresso!

What Started the Obesity Epidemic in America?: 

"The website Fooducate has taken a look at the annual obesity report issued by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Here are some of the 12 shocking statistics they found:

• Adult obesity rates rose in 16 U.S. states over the past year, and NOT ONE state decreased
• Twelve U.S. states now have obesity rates above 30 percent
• Just 4 years ago, only one state had an obesity rate above 30 percent
• Obesity rates exceed 25 percent in more than two-thirds of U.S. states
• Mississippi had the highest rate of obesity (34.4 percent)
• Colorado was the only state with a rate below 20 percent -- and next year will probably be above
• Adult diabetes rates increased in 11 states and Washington, D.C. in the past year; in 8 states, more than 10 percent of adults now have type 2 diabetes.
• High school dropouts have the highest rates of obesity"

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