In the past 30 years US adult obesity rates have more than doubled from 15% in 1980 to 35.7% in 2010

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“In the past 30 years, adult obesity rates have more than doubled — from 15 percent in 1976–1980 to 35.7 percent in 2009–2010,” according to the 2013 report titled F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2013 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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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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