The good news? Americans are exercising more. The bad news. The obesity epidemic is still growing.
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A nine-year study of data from the University of Washington suggests that physical activity alone is not enough to combat the problem of excessive weight gain.
“While physical activity has improved noticeably in most counties, obesity has also continued to rise in nearly all counties,” said lead researcher Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, from the university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
The obesity problem is directly related to how much Americans eat, said senior author Ali Mokdad, a professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.