Obesity Rate
According to Forbes, Canada ranks 35 on a 2007 list of fattest countries with a percentage of 61.1% of its citizens with an unhealthy weight. In children, obesity has substantially increased between 1989 and 2004, with rates in boys increasing from 2% to 10% and rates among girls increasing from 2% to 9%.
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