You can't read or listen to the news media for very long without hearing something about the rising tide of obesity in the United States and other industrialized countries. No one is quite sure how to solve the problem, albeit everyone knows how it happens: eating too much and moving too little. Among people with disabilities, the obesity epidemic is even worse than in the general population. In two national data sets (1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey and 1998-1999 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System) and one local data set (Chicago), the prevalence of overweight, obesity, and extreme obesity, defined by a person's body mass index or BMI, was substantially higher than in the general population.

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~Adults~with~Disabilities.