The Third National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey reported in 1991 that
35% of American women and 31% of American men are obese. The prevalence is thought
to be at least as great in other industrialized nations. Obesity has reached such
epidemic proportions in the United States that it is now more common than cigarette
smoking.
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© 2001 Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
