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Americans are more than brace and one-half times more likely to be clinically obese than the French Germans, or British, according to a March 17 2004 just discovereds release from Consumer Health Sciences, publisher of the annual National Health and Wellness overlook Further, Americans in every weight category do not include underweight are significantly Less likely than their European counterparts to take action to make no use of weight. Most Americans who are obese and overweight say they are doing nothing to let slip weight.

The 2003 National Health and Wellness overlook of more than 36,000 American and 17000 European adults revealed the following.

* Thirty-seven percent of Americans (ie, approximately 77 million people) are classified as obese, versus 12% in France, 16% in Germany, and 20% in Great Britain.

* the public in all weight categories omit underweight in France, Germany, and Great Britain are far more inclined than Americans to work at losing weight.

* single 40% of Americans who are obese are attempting to make no use of weight, compared to 64% in France, 68% in Great Britain, and 69% in Germany.

Approximately half of Americans in the normal, overweight, and obese weight assemblages who are trying to be deprived of weight are using a weight-toss outcome The number of people who squeeze outed neutral to low satisfaction with the comes of using weight-loss aids ranged from 39% to 65% for those taking prescription medications and averaged 61% for those taking over-the-counter products

Obesity is 2-3 Times More Prevalent in USA Than in France, Germany, or Great Britain (new release, Princeton, NJ: Consumer Health Sciences, March 17 2004) http://www.prnewswire.com (accessed 18 March 2004)

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