35.8% of U.S. men are obese versus 35.5% of U.S. women

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“Gender Gap Closing: Ten years ago, the obesity rate for women was significantly higher than the rate for men — 33.4 percent compared with 27.5 percent,” according to the 2013 report titled F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2013 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

“Currently, men’s (35.8 percent) and women’s (35.5 percent) obesity rates are essentially the same.”

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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