It seems that obesity in the US is a much bigger problem than anticipated.

Harvard School of Public Health specialists have published data in Britain’s Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine which shows in 2002, 28.7 percent of adult American men and 34.5 percent of American women were clinically obese.

It turns out that most of the previous studies were done by people giving their measurements over phone.

Predictably many women lied about their weight while a lot of men lied about their height, which screws up the BMI Body Mass Index calculation used to access clinical obesity.

In the new studies they took the measurements for real which created a 50 percent increase in some areas.

It turns out that the worst results came from the southern states such as the Mississippi (37 percent), Texas (37 percent), Louisiana (37 percent).

Obesity is getting worse in almost every industrialised country, and especially in the United States.

Obesity can lead to a whole host of other problems including diabetes.