Re:More Women Than Men Are Obese in America, and Gap Is Wide...
by wongarsu on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:32AM
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>> Across all adult age groups, about 38 percent of women are obese, while 34 percent of men were obese.
>4% seems like a pretty small gap.
It's just 4 percentage points, but a different way to phrase it is that women are 10% more likely to be obese than men. That's not a gigantic gap, but it's still quite significant.
Re:More Women Than Men Are Obese in America, and Gap Is Wide...
by rsmsky1 on Sunday July 17, 2016 @10:34AM
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As with many surveys etc Asians are too small a number to be listed. That's why for many cases, I just tend to look at the white response as I figure that is the closest group to Asians.
Anwyays,
> After decades of increases, obesity rates do seem to be flattening out.
> And another note of optimism: The CDC finds childhood obesity has leveled off. In many states, as we've reported, obesity rates are falling among preschool-aged kids.
Good. Maybe in a few years we'll see a drop?
> Across all adult age groups, about 38 percent of women are obese, while 34 percent of men were obese.
4% seems like a pretty small gap.
> And, the divide becomes even greater for some women of color. The obesity rate among African-American women is 57 percent and 46 percent among Hispanic women.
I'm assuming that Asians were the exception? Is it because of genetics? Or income-level?