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Nearly one-third of all adults in America are now classified as obese. Data collected from the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, shows that 59 million adults 20 years of age and older have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more. This figure is 8% higher than in 1994.

Americans pile on pounds: Education fails to trim fat