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The U.S. Keeps Getting Fatter

Oh, this story is heavy. Literally.

Updated growth charts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now extend children’s body mass index up to 60. Previously, those charts only went up to 37.

“We noticed a decade ago that we were kind of outstripping our growth charts,” one weight loss surgeon in Chicago told the Associated Press.

BMI is a calculation based on height and weight. The charts in question are used to track BMI for children between 2 and 19. Experts say that they had to do this because childhood obesity has nearly quadrupled.

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