Americans are fat, but at least theyre not getting fatter.
Sixty-eight percent of Americans are overweight or obese, but that number hasnt changed much in the last decade, according to a team of doctors Wednesday in two studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Doctors feared that the trend of ever-increasing rates of obesity that started in the 1980s had no end.
But the new findings reveal that from 1999 to 2008, the percent of obese women hovered between 33.2 and 35.5 percent, and the percent of obese men ranged between …

The number of US adults following a healthy lifestyle has fallen in the last two decades despite increasing public health campaigns, a study shows.
A review of two studies stretching back to 1988 found the proportion of obese adults has crept up to over a third.
Levels of exercise also fell, as did consumption of fruit and vegetables.
The American Journal of Medicine study found those with health problems were no more likely to follow a healthy lifestyle than their fitter peers.
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina compared two large-scale studies …