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American Obesity Rate Continues to Climb — Is Surgery the Answer?

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  • According to the latest statistics, 30.4 percent of American adults aged 20 and older were obese in 2015, up by half a percent from the year before, and 9.5 percent of Americans aged 18 and over have type 2 diabetes

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