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NEW YORK (AP) — It may seem like a contradiction, but more adults in the U.S. say they are exercising at the same time more of them are becoming obese.
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Readers offer their suggestions, including an appreciation of good, healthful food.

A new analysis suggests obesity and severe obesity continues to climb among children, with a significant increase seen in those 2 to 5 years old.

The study found that military families sent to areas with higher obesity rates were more likely to be overweight - but the 'contagion' goes both ways.

Obesity rates have risen ten-fold in the last four decades, meaning 124m boys and girls are now too fat.

It’s not that we’re eating more, that we exercise less, or that we lack willpower. The shaming of overweight people has to stop, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

New regulations, which corporate interests delayed for almost a decade, require explicit labeling and limit the marketing of sugary foods to children.

New data on soaring child obesity should not come as a surprise. The food industry spends billions marketing unhealthy foods in a global society where over-eating is seen as a character flaw.