Health.com) -- Obesity rates in the United States and around the world are still sky-high, but for the moment they appear to have stopped climbing higher, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United State of America.
According to the data One out of every three American adults is obese, and two out of every three are overweight, Among children and teens, the numbers aren't much better: Roughly 17 percent of children between the ages of 2 and 19 are considered obese.
According to the report, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, obesity rate among women and children hasn't changed measurably over the past decade, however, and it has remained largely flat among men for the past five years,
Obesity experts reacted positively to the report, but emphasized that there was little to celebrate about.
"The obesity rates have somewhat leveled off, and for the most part that's good, but the bad news is that they have leveled off at a prevalence rate that is alarmingly high," says Scott Kahan, M.D., the co-director of the George Washington University Weight Management Program, in Washington, D.C. "We have a lot of work to do, and this has to be a national priority to move forward from here."
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