American waistlines still expanding, study says

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American waistlines still expanding, study says

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The average waistline of Americans increased by more than an inch over the past decade, according to a study from U.S. health researchers. Along with the increase in waist circumference measurements, the number of Americans with abdominal obesity increased by about eight percentage points between 1999-2000 and 2011-2012, researchers from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found. "We?ve been doing these studies for a number of years now," said Dr. Earl Ford, the study's lead author. "We?ve had three previous publications. ...

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