Obesity rates swelled again last year, new CDC report warns

Obesity rates have swelled again in America, bleak new figures reveal.

Researchers were heartened by news that child obesity remains relatively unchanged over the past decade - although the staggeringly high figure is not decreasing.

But since 2007, adult waistlines have been steadily expanding with no signs of letting up, particularly among women.

The overall rate of obese adults climbed from 33.7 percent in 2007 to 39.6 percent in 2016, according to a nationally representative study of 40,000 people.

That includes 37.9 percent of men (up from 32.2) and 41.1 percent of women (up from 35.4).

Meanwhile 7.7 percent of Americans are morbidly obese - 9.7 percent of women (up from 7.3) and 5.6 percent of men (up from 4.2).

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