After years of steady increase, the obesity rate in the U.S. has finally topped 30 percent.
The Centers for Disease Control estimated the rate in 2015 at 30.4 percent, up from 29.8 percent in 2015.
The proportion of Americans classified as obese — a person with a body mass index (BMI) over 30 — first rose above 20 percent in 1997 and has continued its climb since.
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