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Americans Pack on Recession Pounds

February 16, 2011
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Los Angeles (PRWEB) April 10, 2009

The economic recession has led to diminished bank accounts, monumental job losses, and mass depression, and as Americans look to cut costs from their grocery bill, reduced spending has led to empty calories and excess weight gain. New studies have shown that the recession has added radical new dimensions to the average American’s waistline.

With many people struggling to maintain their ideal weight, Blue Ribbon Review recently released its top pick for weight loss supplements. While many products claim to offer fast results with little effort, only one actually succeeded in substantially reducing the BMI of participating testers. Blue Ribbon Reviews concluded that only one product, Acai X3, could be given a creditable recommendation. Blue Ribbon Ratings were based on weight loss results (throughout a 4 month period), price, and customer service.

Acai X3 utilizes the natural effects of the acai berry. Once a remarkable secret of the Amazon Rainforest, the acai berry is now being sought after as one of the most revolutionary weight loss drugs of the century. Its powerful appetite suppressant aids the weight loss process while supplementing the body’s anti-oxidants and increasing the amount of vitamins and minerals your body needs.

Acai X3 contains:

    Acai Berry- the leading ingredient, acai, has only one known side effect, the natural tendency to decrease appetite. So in combination with the berry’s extremely high fiber content and dietary stimulants the berry is being advertised as the latest and most influential dietetic discovery of the modern era.
    Green Tea- green tea with ECGC dramatically boosts your metabolism, with studies showing that green tea extract increases the metabolic rate by 4% in a 24 hour period. It also inhibits the movement of glucose into fat cells and helps reduce appetite.
    Fucoxanthin- fucoxanthin is a compound that targets a protein called UCP1 that increases the rate at which abdominal fat is burned resulting in weight loss.
Consumers should be aware that the benefits of Acai X3 are proven. Not only does the product bring about dramatic weight loss results, but studies have shown that the consumption of Acai can lend itself to the following:

    Cancer Fighting-A study published recently in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry shows that the acai berry contains antioxidants that destroyed cultured human cancer cells and triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86% of leukemia cells tested.
    Cholesterol Reducer-Compared to other fruits acaí berries have an extremely high organic vegetable protein content value. This high protein content does not generate cholesterol during digestion and therefore allows the body to process the nutrients straight to your muscles, reducing the overall cholesterol count your body consumes. One liter of acaí berry contains 12.6 g of proteins, which represents 25-30% of the daily required nutritional amount.
    Energy Booster-Rich in organic carbohydrates, acai berries naturally supply the body with the long lasting energy needed to perform throughout the day and equip the body with the stamina required for daily exercise routines.
    Heart Disease Combatant-The acai berry contains unusually large amounts of fiber, and research studies suggest that soluble fibers help may help lower cholesterol and fight heart disease.
    Anti-Aging Agent-With it’s exceptionally high content of phytosterols, the acai berry helps contribute to your body’s anti-aging methods. Studies have shown that phytosterols contribute significantly to cell regeneration, alleviating the signs of stress and aging.
    Antioxidant Rich-Perhaps most importantly, acai berries have been proven to 10 times the amount of antioxidants as grapes, and twice the amount as blueberries. Antioxidants assist the bodies immunities to free radicals and improve overall health.
Signing up for Acai X3 is easy and unlike many of the other products we tested there is no hassle to canceling. You’ll actually talk to a real person who can help you through the process. They also offer a customer service line which delivers 24 hour assistance. The risk free trial is just that, risk free. Only pay a small shipping and handling fee to receive your first bottle (30 day supply) of Acai X3. But please be aware, due to the delicate nature of the berry, Acai X3 supplements are in limited supply. Consumers should sign up as soon as possible to secure their free trial.

Click here for your Risk Free Trial of Acai X3.

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America is Bulging – Americans Are Breaking Weight Records and Bad Health Records

January 21, 2011
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America is bulging with fat not muscles. The number of overweight people in the U.S.A had increased by 60% in the twenty years before 2004. Also, the number of obese children had tripled in the thirty years before 2004. But just what is obesity? Well, when a man’s body is over 25% he is obese and when a woman’s body fat reaches over 30% she is obese. The fact is that America is the fattest country in the world because the percentage of overweight people in the U.S.A has steadily increased since the 1960’s. As more and more people got TV’s and they started eating more packaged and fast foods the epidemic began.

Though most people don’t think girls should have muscles large per se, healthy muscles are certainly good for the health of anyone. But the ratio of body fat to lean muscle in America is heavily leaning towards obesity. This is a contest that hasn’t a winner. The problem is so bad that Barbara J. Moore, Ph.D. is concerned that “half of all children well be overweight by 2020.” This raises health concerns of people routinely having heart attacks at the age of thirty.

An alarm like that should scare people into changing their sedentary lifestyle, if for no other reason than to be a good example to their children. It should compel people to get their children away from the computer and into the ball park, out riding bicycles in parks that have bicycle routes, out swimming, hiking, running, bowling and the list of active activities goes on.

Losing weight and keeping it off seems to be the real problem. Many people don’t have as big of a problem losing weight as keeping it off. Their bodies get comfortable with a certain amount of calories and changing that comfort level is difficult. The ways to lose weight are exercising, reducing calories and keeping them lower to maintain new weight. It helps to check food labels for the number of calories and keeping track of the calories you consume each day so you know how much you need to cut and to decide how to cut them. Other tactics are to climb the stairs instead of using the elevator (women should do this in pairs or groups for safety), walk from farther away in the parking lot, walk in place while watching TV, get people together to walks laps around the mall, join a softball league etc.

The scientific causes of obesity are five fold: genes, fatty foods, lifestyle, metabolic rate, and psychology. Some families have genes that are more prone to obesity, but with exercise and diet many people can control their weight, otherwise they can opt for certain medical procedures to help them. Obviously, to lose weight cutting out fast food and other fat laden foods is necessary. Coupling exercise with a low-fat, low-calorie diet is a helpful change in lifestyle to lose weight. Muscle is a higher burner of calories than fat. Muscles burn calories when resting. To get your muscles to partner with you in a weight loss program you need to do weight bearing exercise and just plan exercise to increase your metabolism. Many overweight people binge eat because of stress or depression. It is a vicious cycle and binge eaters may need counseling to help them.

Obesity is a national epidemic and a personal health issue that needs strict attention and effort put towards eliminating it by the individuals affected by its deadly grip. The obese person has to be responsible to change their state of being because it is very unlikely that food companies are really going to help you.

Doctor Notes
Get your doctor’s excuse online.

Americans Increasingly Obese, Hooked on Plastic Surgery and Living By the Sea, Census Shows

January 21, 2011
By

Americans appear to be increasingly seduced by the allure of plastic surgery and life by the beach, and are proving unable to shrug off the habit of overeating despite a massive health drive against obesity, the latest US census abstract suggests.

The 2009 Statistical Abstract of the United States shows that the amount of cosmetic remodelling rose from 8.5m procedures in 2001 to 11.7m in 2007.

Most of the work was nonsurgical, with Botox injections the most popular, totaling 2.8m procedures in 2007. Also popular are hyaluronan injections, approved by US regulators in 2003, which are used to fill out facial wrinkles.

Of the 2.1m surgical procedures in 2007, liposuction (457,000) and breast enlargement (399,000) topped the table.

Men accounted for about a million of the procedures that year, with Botox and liposuction leading the way.

The report provides a treasure trove of information about the US during a period of considerable demographic and political flux. This year’s edition contains more than 1,400 tables, with data drawn from the census bureau and an array of social, political and economic groups.

At a time when the US is experiencing destructive weather patterns and the prospect of rising sea levels from global warming, many Americans continue to migrate with abandon towards the beach.

Eight million more people lived along the US coastline in 2007 than in 2000. The growth is particularly pronounced in the two regions most threatened by hurricanes and flooding, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Florida saw a 13% increase in the number of people living along its coasts over seven years, rising to 10.6 million, almost 60% of the state population.

The coastal population of the Gulf of Mexico increased to almost 20 million. Despite the devastation caused by Katrina in 2005, Louisiana’s number remained remarkably stable at 3.3 million, down by less than 200,000.

Texas also continues to expose itself to the vicissitudes of extreme weather. The number of people living by the sea rose 15% from 2000-2007 to 7.9 million.

US authorities have spent millions of dollars in recent years trying to combat obesity. They need to try harder, according to the abstract, whose figures on weight are up to 2006. It shows that a third of Americans are clinically obese, with a body mass index of 30 or more. Of particular concern to health professionals will be that 30% of 18- to 44-year-olds are obese.

Part of the cause is revealed in other tables that show that a quarter of the population is physically inactive, having reported doing no exercise in the previous month from the date of the survey.

For the first time the abstract shows the religious composition of the US. America remains overwhelmingly Christian, with 51% describing themselves as Baptist and 24% as Catholic.

America is Bulging – Americans Are Breaking Weight Records and Bad Health Records

January 14, 2011
By

America is bulging with fat not muscles. The number of overweight people in the U.S.A had increased by 60% in the twenty years before 2004. Also, the number of obese children had tripled in the thirty years before 2004. But just what is obesity? Well, when a man’s body is over 25% he is obese and when a woman’s body fat reaches over 30% she is obese. The fact is that America is the fattest country in the world because the percentage of overweight people in the U.S.A has steadily increased since the 1960’s. As more and more people got TV’s and they started eating more packaged and fast foods the epidemic began.

Though most people don’t think girls should have muscles large per se, healthy muscles are certainly good for the health of anyone. But the ratio of body fat to lean muscle in America is heavily leaning towards obesity. This is a contest that hasn’t a winner. The problem is so bad that Barbara J. Moore, Ph.D. is concerned that “half of all children well be overweight by 2020.” This raises health concerns of people routinely having heart attacks at the age of thirty.

An alarm like that should scare people into changing their sedentary lifestyle, if for no other reason than to be a good example to their children. It should compel people to get their children away from the computer and into the ball park, out riding bicycles in parks that have bicycle routes, out swimming, hiking, running, bowling and the list of active activities goes on.

Losing weight and keeping it off seems to be the real problem. Many people don’t have as big of a problem losing weight as keeping it off. Their bodies get comfortable with a certain amount of calories and changing that comfort level is difficult. The ways to lose weight are exercising, reducing calories and keeping them lower to maintain new weight. It helps to check food labels for the number of calories and keeping track of the calories you consume each day so you know how much you need to cut and to decide how to cut them. Other tactics are to climb the stairs instead of using the elevator (women should do this in pairs or groups for safety), walk from farther away in the parking lot, walk in place while watching TV, get people together to walks laps around the mall, join a softball league etc.

The scientific causes of obesity are five fold: genes, fatty foods, lifestyle, metabolic rate, and psychology. Some families have genes that are more prone to obesity, but with exercise and diet many people can control their weight, otherwise they can opt for certain medical procedures to help them. Obviously, to lose weight cutting out fast food and other fat laden foods is necessary. Coupling exercise with a low-fat, low-calorie diet is a helpful change in lifestyle to lose weight. Muscle is a higher burner of calories than fat. Muscles burn calories when resting. To get your muscles to partner with you in a weight loss program you need to do weight bearing exercise and just plan exercise to increase your metabolism. Many overweight people binge eat because of stress or depression. It is a vicious cycle and binge eaters may need counseling to help them.

Obesity is a national epidemic and a personal health issue that needs strict attention and effort put towards eliminating it by the individuals affected by its deadly grip. The obese person has to be responsible to change their state of being because it is very unlikely that food companies are really going to help you.

Doctor Notes
Get your doctor’s excuse online.

America is Bulging – Americans Are Breaking Weight Records and Bad Health Records

October 25, 2010
By

America is bulging with fat not muscles. The number of overweight people in the U.S.A had increased by 60% in the twenty years before 2004. Also, the number of obese children had tripled in the thirty years before 2004. But just what is obesity? Well, when a man’s body is over 25% he is obese and when a woman’s body fat reaches over 30% she is obese. The fact is that America is the fattest country in the world because the percentage of overweight people in the U.S.A has steadily increased since the 1960’s. As more and more people got TV’s and they started eating more packaged and fast foods the epidemic began.

Though most people don’t think girls should have muscles large per se, healthy muscles are certainly good for the health of anyone. But the ratio of body fat to lean muscle in America is heavily leaning towards obesity. This is a contest that hasn’t a winner. The problem is so bad that Barbara J. Moore, Ph.D. is concerned that “half of all children well be overweight by 2020.” This raises health concerns of people routinely having heart attacks at the age of thirty.

An alarm like that should scare people into changing their sedentary lifestyle, if for no other reason than to be a good example to their children. It should compel people to get their children away from the computer and into the ball park, out riding bicycles in parks that have bicycle routes, out swimming, hiking, running, bowling and the list of active activities goes on.

Losing weight and keeping it off seems to be the real problem. Many people don’t have as big of a problem losing weight as keeping it off. Their bodies get comfortable with a certain amount of calories and changing that comfort level is difficult. The ways to lose weight are exercising, reducing calories and keeping them lower to maintain new weight. It helps to check food labels for the number of calories and keeping track of the calories you consume each day so you know how much you need to cut and to decide how to cut them. Other tactics are to climb the stairs instead of using the elevator (women should do this in pairs or groups for safety), walk from farther away in the parking lot, walk in place while watching TV, get people together to walks laps around the mall, join a softball league etc.

The scientific causes of obesity are five fold: genes, fatty foods, lifestyle, metabolic rate, and psychology. Some families have genes that are more prone to obesity, but with exercise and diet many people can control their weight, otherwise they can opt for certain medical procedures to help them. Obviously, to lose weight cutting out fast food and other fat laden foods is necessary. Coupling exercise with a low-fat, low-calorie diet is a helpful change in lifestyle to lose weight. Muscle is a higher burner of calories than fat. Muscles burn calories when resting. To get your muscles to partner with you in a weight loss program you need to do weight bearing exercise and just plan exercise to increase your metabolism. Many overweight people binge eat because of stress or depression. It is a vicious cycle and binge eaters may need counseling to help them.

Obesity is a national epidemic and a personal health issue that needs strict attention and effort put towards eliminating it by the individuals affected by its deadly grip. The obese person has to be responsible to change their state of being because it is very unlikely that food companies are really going to help you.

Doctor Notes
Get your doctor’s excuse online.

America is Bulging – Americans Are Breaking Weight Records and Bad Health Records

October 13, 2010
By

America is bulging with fat not muscles. The number of overweight people in the U.S.A had increased by 60% in the twenty years before 2004. Also, the number of obese children had tripled in the thirty years before 2004. But just what is obesity? Well, when a man’s body is over 25% he is obese and when a woman’s body fat reaches over 30% she is obese. The fact is that America is the fattest country in the world because the percentage of overweight people in the U.S.A has steadily increased since the 1960’s. As more and more people got TV’s and they started eating more packaged and fast foods the epidemic began.

Though most people don’t think girls should have muscles large per se, healthy muscles are certainly good for the health of anyone. But the ratio of body fat to lean muscle in America is heavily leaning towards obesity. This is a contest that hasn’t a winner. The problem is so bad that Barbara J. Moore, Ph.D. is concerned that “half of all children well be overweight by 2020.” This raises health concerns of people routinely having heart attacks at the age of thirty.

An alarm like that should scare people into changing their sedentary lifestyle, if for no other reason than to be a good example to their children. It should compel people to get their children away from the computer and into the ball park, out riding bicycles in parks that have bicycle routes, out swimming, hiking, running, bowling and the list of active activities goes on.

Losing weight and keeping it off seems to be the real problem. Many people don’t have as big of a problem losing weight as keeping it off. Their bodies get comfortable with a certain amount of calories and changing that comfort level is difficult. The ways to lose weight are exercising, reducing calories and keeping them lower to maintain new weight. It helps to check food labels for the number of calories and keeping track of the calories you consume each day so you know how much you need to cut and to decide how to cut them. Other tactics are to climb the stairs instead of using the elevator (women should do this in pairs or groups for safety), walk from farther away in the parking lot, walk in place while watching TV, get people together to walks laps around the mall, join a softball league etc.

The scientific causes of obesity are five fold: genes, fatty foods, lifestyle, metabolic rate, and psychology. Some families have genes that are more prone to obesity, but with exercise and diet many people can control their weight, otherwise they can opt for certain medical procedures to help them. Obviously, to lose weight cutting out fast food and other fat laden foods is necessary. Coupling exercise with a low-fat, low-calorie diet is a helpful change in lifestyle to lose weight. Muscle is a higher burner of calories than fat. Muscles burn calories when resting. To get your muscles to partner with you in a weight loss program you need to do weight bearing exercise and just plan exercise to increase your metabolism. Many overweight people binge eat because of stress or depression. It is a vicious cycle and binge eaters may need counseling to help them.

Obesity is a national epidemic and a personal health issue that needs strict attention and effort put towards eliminating it by the individuals affected by its deadly grip. The obese person has to be responsible to change their state of being because it is very unlikely that food companies are really going to help you.

Doctor Notes
Get your doctor’s excuse online.

Ever-heavier Americans Face a Pre-flight Weight Test

October 6, 2010
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Americans travelling on small aircraft will be asked to weigh themselves as well as their luggage for the next month in response to concerns that the nation’s growing girth may be jeopardising air safety.

The Federal Aviation Authority has ordered that passengers on small planes carrying between 10 and 19 people should be weighed in order to test whether the average weights the industry applies are still correct.

The FAA assumes that fully dressed adults weigh 82kg (12st 12lb) in summer and 84kg (13st 3lb) in winter – a figure that includes 9kg (1st 6lb) carry-on luggage and takes account of heavier clothing in winter. Children aged between two and 12 are assumed to weigh 36kg (5st 10lb) all year round.

But those assumptions were last revised eight years ago, and Americans have become significantly larger since then, with obesity among adults increasing by 60% over the course of the 90s.

Between 1999 and 2000 the number of obese children and teenagers grew by around 15%.

Travellers will be asked their weight or told to step on a set of scales. Given the likelihood that people will lie about their weight, airlines will add 4.5kg (10lb) to whatever figure they are told: “They usually lie in the single digits,” said Peggy Gilligan, the director of flight standards at the FAA.

Airlines could be forced to leave some larger passengers or baggage behind if the studies indicate that average passenger weights have increased substantially.

On larger aircraft such differences would be of minimal importance but heavy people on light planes can make a crucial difference.

Investigators from the FAA believe that flawed weight estimates could have contributed to a crash in Charlotte, North Carolina, earlier this month which killed all 21 people on board.

The plane’s flight data recorder showed that the aircraft suddenly started to rise at an angle of 52 degrees at take-off before crashing. They are examining whether an overload in the rear caused its nose to rise dramatically as the plane left the ground.

Soon after the crash, investigators asked airport staff if there had been any “large-statured people” among the passengers.

America is Bulging – Americans Are Breaking Weight Records and Bad Health Records

September 10, 2010
By

America is bulging with fat not muscles. The number of overweight people in the U.S.A had increased by 60% in the twenty years before 2004. Also, the number of obese children had tripled in the thirty years before 2004. But just what is obesity? Well, when a man’s body is over 25% he is obese and when a woman’s body fat reaches over 30% she is obese. The fact is that America is the fattest country in the world because the percentage of overweight people in the U.S.A has steadily increased since the 1960’s. As more and more people got TV’s and they started eating more packaged and fast foods the epidemic began.

Though most people don’t think girls should have muscles large per se, healthy muscles are certainly good for the health of anyone. But the ratio of body fat to lean muscle in America is heavily leaning towards obesity. This is a contest that hasn’t a winner. The problem is so bad that Barbara J. Moore, Ph.D. is concerned that “half of all children well be overweight by 2020.” This raises health concerns of people routinely having heart attacks at the age of thirty.

An alarm like that should scare people into changing their sedentary lifestyle, if for no other reason than to be a good example to their children. It should compel people to get their children away from the computer and into the ball park, out riding bicycles in parks that have bicycle routes, out swimming, hiking, running, bowling and the list of active activities goes on.

Losing weight and keeping it off seems to be the real problem. Many people don’t have as big of a problem losing weight as keeping it off. Their bodies get comfortable with a certain amount of calories and changing that comfort level is difficult. The ways to lose weight are exercising, reducing calories and keeping them lower to maintain new weight. It helps to check food labels for the number of calories and keeping track of the calories you consume each day so you know how much you need to cut and to decide how to cut them. Other tactics are to climb the stairs instead of using the elevator (women should do this in pairs or groups for safety), walk from farther away in the parking lot, walk in place while watching TV, get people together to walks laps around the mall, join a softball league etc.

The scientific causes of obesity are five fold: genes, fatty foods, lifestyle, metabolic rate, and psychology. Some families have genes that are more prone to obesity, but with exercise and diet many people can control their weight, otherwise they can opt for certain medical procedures to help them. Obviously, to lose weight cutting out fast food and other fat laden foods is necessary. Coupling exercise with a low-fat, low-calorie diet is a helpful change in lifestyle to lose weight. Muscle is a higher burner of calories than fat. Muscles burn calories when resting. To get your muscles to partner with you in a weight loss program you need to do weight bearing exercise and just plan exercise to increase your metabolism. Many overweight people binge eat because of stress or depression. It is a vicious cycle and binge eaters may need counseling to help them.

Obesity is a national epidemic and a personal health issue that needs strict attention and effort put towards eliminating it by the individuals affected by its deadly grip. The obese person has to be responsible to change their state of being because it is very unlikely that food companies are really going to help you.

Doctor Notes
Get your doctor’s excuse online.

Americans Increasingly Obese, Hooked on Plastic Surgery and Living By the Sea, Census Shows

June 19, 2010
By

Americans appear to be increasingly seduced by the allure of plastic surgery and life by the beach, and are proving unable to shrug off the habit of overeating despite a massive health drive against obesity, the latest US census abstract suggests.

The 2009 Statistical Abstract of the United States shows that the amount of cosmetic remodelling rose from 8.5m procedures in 2001 to 11.7m in 2007.

Most of the work was nonsurgical, with Botox injections the most popular, totaling 2.8m procedures in 2007. Also popular are hyaluronan injections, approved by US regulators in 2003, which are used to fill out facial wrinkles.

Of the 2.1m surgical procedures in 2007, liposuction (457,000) and breast enlargement (399,000) topped the table.

Men accounted for about a million of the procedures that year, with Botox and liposuction leading the way.

The report provides a treasure trove of information about the US during a period of considerable demographic and political flux. This year’s edition contains more than 1,400 tables, with data drawn from the census bureau and an array of social, political and economic groups.

At a time when the US is experiencing destructive weather patterns and the prospect of rising sea levels from global warming, many Americans continue to migrate with abandon towards the beach.

Eight million more people lived along the US coastline in 2007 than in 2000. The growth is particularly pronounced in the two regions most threatened by hurricanes and flooding, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Florida saw a 13% increase in the number of people living along its coasts over seven years, rising to 10.6 million, almost 60% of the state population.

The coastal population of the Gulf of Mexico increased to almost 20 million. Despite the devastation caused by Katrina in 2005, Louisiana’s number remained remarkably stable at 3.3 million, down by less than 200,000.

Texas also continues to expose itself to the vicissitudes of extreme weather. The number of people living by the sea rose 15% from 2000-2007 to 7.9 million.

US authorities have spent millions of dollars in recent years trying to combat obesity. They need to try harder, according to the abstract, whose figures on weight are up to 2006. It shows that a third of Americans are clinically obese, with a body mass index of 30 or more. Of particular concern to health professionals will be that 30% of 18- to 44-year-olds are obese.

Part of the cause is revealed in other tables that show that a quarter of the population is physically inactive, having reported doing no exercise in the previous month from the date of the survey.

For the first time the abstract shows the religious composition of the US. America remains overwhelmingly Christian, with 51% describing themselves as Baptist and 24% as Catholic.

Americans Increasingly Obese, Hooked on Plastic Surgery and Living By the Sea, Census Shows

June 2, 2010
By

Americans appear to be increasingly seduced by the allure of plastic surgery and life by the beach, and are proving unable to shrug off the habit of overeating despite a massive health drive against obesity, the latest US census abstract suggests.

The 2009 Statistical Abstract of the United States shows that the amount of cosmetic remodelling rose from 8.5m procedures in 2001 to 11.7m in 2007.

Most of the work was nonsurgical, with Botox injections the most popular, totaling 2.8m procedures in 2007. Also popular are hyaluronan injections, approved by US regulators in 2003, which are used to fill out facial wrinkles.

Of the 2.1m surgical procedures in 2007, liposuction (457,000) and breast enlargement (399,000) topped the table.

Men accounted for about a million of the procedures that year, with Botox and liposuction leading the way.

The report provides a treasure trove of information about the US during a period of considerable demographic and political flux. This year’s edition contains more than 1,400 tables, with data drawn from the census bureau and an array of social, political and economic groups.

At a time when the US is experiencing destructive weather patterns and the prospect of rising sea levels from global warming, many Americans continue to migrate with abandon towards the beach.

Eight million more people lived along the US coastline in 2007 than in 2000. The growth is particularly pronounced in the two regions most threatened by hurricanes and flooding, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Florida saw a 13% increase in the number of people living along its coasts over seven years, rising to 10.6 million, almost 60% of the state population.

The coastal population of the Gulf of Mexico increased to almost 20 million. Despite the devastation caused by Katrina in 2005, Louisiana’s number remained remarkably stable at 3.3 million, down by less than 200,000.

Texas also continues to expose itself to the vicissitudes of extreme weather. The number of people living by the sea rose 15% from 2000-2007 to 7.9 million.

US authorities have spent millions of dollars in recent years trying to combat obesity. They need to try harder, according to the abstract, whose figures on weight are up to 2006. It shows that a third of Americans are clinically obese, with a body mass index of 30 or more. Of particular concern to health professionals will be that 30% of 18- to 44-year-olds are obese.

Part of the cause is revealed in other tables that show that a quarter of the population is physically inactive, having reported doing no exercise in the previous month from the date of the survey.

For the first time the abstract shows the religious composition of the US. America remains overwhelmingly Christian, with 51% describing themselves as Baptist and 24% as Catholic.

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