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CDC Blew it on Obesity Numbers

Thursday, April 21st, 2005 | Science |

Being overweight is nowhere near as big a killer as the government thought, ranking No. 7 instead of No. 2 among the nation’s leading preventable causes of death, according to a startling new calculation from the CDC.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated today that packing on too many pounds accounts for 25,814 deaths a year in the United States. As recently as January, the CDC came up with an estimate 14 times higher: 365,000 deaths.

The new analysis found that obesity

2 Comments to CDC Blew it on Obesity Numbers

Dave Justus
April 21, 2005

Any time you see Science by press release you should be very skeptical. Until something is peer reviewed it doesn’t mean anything.

cinomed.blog-city.com
May 5, 2005

Remember Obesity being the #2 Killer in America?

Well surprisingly enough, the CDC admits they were wrong.Now we ain’t talking a little wrong, not even, wow that was kinda skewed wrong.We are talking 14 times wrong, they thought is was 365,000 deaths a year, turns out it is more like 25,814.Get it?