60% 

• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 80 %of adults and about one-third of children now meet the clinical definition of overweight or obese. More Americans live with “extreme obesity“ than with breast cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and HIV put together.

For half a century, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or saved, millions of lives:

Doctors have shorter appointments with fat patients and have been reported to show less emotional rapport during the interaction.

Diet is the leading cause of death in the US, responsible for more than five times the fatalities of gun violence and car accidents combined.

According to a 2015 survey, students receive an average of 19 hours of nutrition education over four years of school time—five hours fewer than they got in 2006.

Bioethicist Daniel Callahan said people should be made to feel ashamed of being obese. “

All of our biological systems for regulating energy, hunger and satiety get thrown off by eating foods that are high in sugar (like Fructose, for instance), low in fiber and injected with additives, and which make up 60 percent of the calories we eat.

More than 40 percent of Americans classified as obese say they experience stigma on a daily basis.

Three separate studies have found that fat women are more likely to die from breast and cervical cancers than non-fat women, a result partially attributed to their reluctance to see doctors and get screenings/tests and timely diagnosis.

 Since 1980, the obesity rate has doubled in 73 countries and increased in 113 others. No country has reduced its obesity rate in all these years.