India's current National Family Health Survey shows that more than twenty percent of Indians living in cities are overweight or obese.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Forty-four point four percent of all children between the ages of ten and seventeen years were obese or overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

They used a system of measurement called the Body Mass Index to define words like obese and overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

In fact,Mississippi has had the highest rate of obese adults in each of the past five years.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

And,the percentage of obese or overweight children was at or above thirty percent in thirty states.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

That means obese Indians are even more at risk for diabetes than other people.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

And the kind of sedentary lifestyle that we lead, are one of the reasons why we have every day the number of obese people in India increasing."

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Mississippi also had the highest rate of obese and overweight children.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Thirty-two point five percent of the state's adults were obese.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Almost one-third of American children are overweight or obese.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

And,an obese person has a B-M-I above thirty.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

A new study shows that some obese children as young as three have early warning signs for heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

Nearly one in five children in the United States is obese, according to the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"Once a woman became overweight or obese, there was no relation between physical activity and weight change among these women."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Now,after analyzing data from a large national health and nutrition survey, Skinner reports finding similarly elevated levels in obese children as well.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

It's a way of showing in one number that, for example,a diabetic or an obese person died sooner but also had years of poor health.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Other studies show that obese children are more likely to stay obese as adults.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

"I was at one of our local hospitals." "They said I was obese.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Since last year, four more states reported adult obesity rates of more than 30 percent - meaning that at least 30 percent of their populations are obese.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Kaplan's agency is redoubling its efforts to identify obese women early in their pregnancies and to make sure their health care providers treat them as high-risk patients.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

One in three children in the United States is overweight or obese.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

It also is issuing health alerts to hospital delivery wards to diminish the risk of death in childbirth due to hemorrhage, which is more likely among obese moms.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

The study found that half the women who died were obese and that 56 percent had a chronic illness, such as high blood pressure, heart disease or asthma.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

Obese adults can have high levels of C-reactive protein.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

The world was literally destroyed by a corporation called "buy in large" and the only people that were left in the world were these few incredibly obese individuals floating in space."

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

In 1980,15 percent of American adults were obese.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

"And we think the issue for black women is they are more likely to be obese and have chronic illnesses, like high blood pressure, which put you at higher risk for complications during pregnancy."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23