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Few experts dispute the common-sense view that obesity is bad for one’s health. As such, one would expect the rising incidence of obesity to have left large numbers of Americans feeling their health is lousy. But a report from the National Center for Health Statistics indicates it hasn’t happened, at least yet.
Using data collected during the first quarter of this year, the report found 26 percent of Americans age 20 and over are obese, up from 19 percent in 1997.
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