Obesity rates climb in Canada and U.S., but Canadians remain slimmer

A new Statistics Canada study suggests one in four Canadian adults is clinically obese, compared with one in three in the United States. The study, released jointly with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, says 24.1 per cent of adults in Canada were obese between 2007 and 2009. In the U.S., the figure was 34.4 per cent.

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