Or that obese people sit for more than two and half more hours per day than thin people?
It is hard to make a profit feeding obese people at an "all-you-can-eat" buffet.
The survey indicates that the number of obese people in China doubled between 1992 and 2002.
Now a government survey concludes that there are 60 million obese people in China.
Obese people are at a much higher risk for heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, arthritis and some cancers.
There are up to 34 MC4R mutations, although only 2% to 3% of very obese people carry them.
Millennium scientists started by discovering a gene that is expressed more often in obese people than lean ones.
It also reports that the delay is longer in obese people than it is in those who are lean.
Vitamin D deficiency is common in people with poor diets (including obese people) and in people who are relatively inactive.
Overall, the death rate in overweight and obese people with diabetes was 1.5% per year, compared with 2.8% in thin patients.
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There is no single policy for the UK's fire and rescue services, but some already charge for assisting severely obese people.
Mildly obese people (BMI between 30 and 35) were no more likely to die prematurely than people with a healthy BMI.
Kern is a professor of medicine and an endocrinologist at the University of Arkansas, and he runs a program for obese people.
Most of these cases are Type 2 diabetes, caused by the UK's ageing population and rapidly rising numbers of overweight and obese people.
Statisticians found the share of overweight and obese people increases with age in all of the 19 member states that data was available for.
The increase in the number of calls has prompted some fire services to reconsider their approach to responding to calls from severely obese people.
Obese people are rated as being less desirable as subordinates, co-workers, and bosses and are seen as less conscientious, less agreeable, and less emotionally stable.
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Scientists could block receptors to help obese people stop craving food.
Peeters found a six years reduction in life expectancy at age forty for obese men, and seven years for obese women, compared to non-obese people.
To be sure, plenty of obese people never develop diabetes, and plenty of fit people do: the causes of the disease are not purely behavioural.
Thinner volunteers were found to be more likely to carry the protective form of the gene, while the other version was more common in obese people.
Previous research has suggested that obese people with high levels of both abdominal and subcutaneous fat are more insulin-sensitive than those with only high levels of abdominal fat.
They found some evidence that low concentrations of dopamine, a brain chemical, may respond to the sight and smell of food in an addictive manner for some obese people.
Obese people are at greater risk of heart attacks, diabetes, strokes and a host of other ailments that not merely hurt them, but stretch America's already overtaxed health-care system.
San Francisco, which consistently ranks high in the annual list, impressed with its small percentage of obese people, low number of smokers and highly educated and generally fit population.
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The minister referred to a scheme considered by Cardiff and Vale LHB which would force smokers and obese people to undergo courses of treatment before being allowed to have surgery.
The FDA approved Qsymia only for obese people or for overweight people with a body mass index greater than 27 who also suffer from weight-related conditions like hypertension and diabetes.
"It is disappointing but it is not surprising to see that health professionals have the same ingrained prejudice against obese people as the general public, " he told BBC News Online.
Moreover, when obese people went on a diet and lost up to a quarter of their body weight, their gut flora changed too, becoming more like those of the lean group.
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