U.S. obesity: 35% who did not graduate from high school are obese, but only 21% of college graduates

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“Obesity rates vary by education. More than 35 percent of adults (ages 26 and above) who did not graduate high school are obese, compared with 21.3 percent of those who graduated from college or technical college,” according to the 2013 report titled F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2013 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation who has been publishing this report for 10 years.

Reference

Anon. F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2013. Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2013 Aug;
http://healthyamericans.org/health-issues/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/TFAH2013FasInFatReport29.pdf
http://healthyamericans.org/report/108/

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