Recent statistics show that the bigger slice of the pie reveals that there are more obese compared to overweight individuals in the US. The survey from the National Center for Health Statistics point to the 34% of the population is obese compared to the 32.7 overweight individuals.
The study also shows a little under 6% can be medically classified as extremely obese.
Translating the percentile into real figures, one third of the American adult population or 72 million adults were obese during the 2005 to 2006 study. The conclusion was drawn from the study group of 4356 adults over 20 years of age which participated in the survey of the federal government.
The study involved physical examination done in mobile laboratories to measure height and weight among other variables that were checked.