Obesity: A growing Issue - ARCHIVED

This summary provides highlights of an analysis that used eight years of longitudinal data from the National Population Health Survey, 1994/95 to 2002/03. The analysis was part of an Internet publication Healthy Today, Healthy Tomorrow? Findings from the National Population Health Survey, Catalogue no. 82-618-MWE.

The analysis found that once people are overweight, they are more like to pack on even more weight than to take it off.