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About two-thirds of the US population can be classified as overweight or obese based on body mass index.
Practitioners should be aware of the high prevalence of obesity and overweight in the US population.
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the prevalence of obesity and overweight has increased in the United States to the point where about two-thirds of the US population can be classified as one or the other by the criterion of body mass index.
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The claim is based on a broad observation of population data.
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The Internationalization of the Obesity Epidemic
M. C. Nesheim et al. · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2015
DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198733201.003.0005
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