Preventing Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes

Preventing Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: A Call to Action From the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association -- Eckel et al. 113 (25): 2943 -- Circulation: "Excess body weight has become a major public health problem in the U.S., with nearly two-thirds of adults either overweight or obese. The steady gain in the prevalence of obesity over the last 25 years has affected our entire population—no racial or ethnic group, no region of the country, and no socioeconomic group has been spared. Perhaps most worrisome is the observation that the rise in the rate of obesity has been greatest in children and minorities, which suggests that future generations of Americans, and our fastest growing populations, may bear the ultimate burden of this condition. /.../"