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"Mean (or average) weight, waist circumference, and BMI in adults 20 years and older between 1999-2000 and 2015-2016," Cynthia Ogden, one of the report's authors and an epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics, wrote in an email.
In this previous study period, "mean (or average) weight increased by 24 pounds and mean height [about] 1 inch, "Ogden said.
The new report shows the trend in depth but not in height.
The average weight of American men in 2015-16 was 197.9 pounds; for women, it was 170.6 pounds. This is up from 189.4 pounds and 163.8 pounds, respectively, in 1999-2000.
Black men, Mexican-American women, and Asian men and women were the only groups in the report that did not show a significant increase in weight over that period.
Ogden said: From 99.1 centimeters (39 inches) in men in 1999-2000 to 102.1 centimeters (40.2 inches) in 2015-16. For women, the measurement went from 92.2 centimeters (36.3 inches) to 98 centimeters (38.6 inches).
While weight is going up, height is going down. According to the new report, the overall average is slightly higher than that of slightly more than one thousandths of a millimeter (5 feet, 3.8 inches) in 1999-2000 to 161.7 centimeters (5 feet, 3.7 inches) in 2015-16.
For men, the average height in 1999-2000 was 175.6 centimeters (5 feet, 9.2 inches). It increased until 2003-04, when the average height was 176.4 centimeters (5 feet, 9.4 inches), and then decreased again until 2015-16, when it was 175.4 centimeters (5 feet, 9.1 inches).
Ogden noted that for weight, waist circumference and BMI, the "biggest sales between 1999-2000 and 2015-2016 were in Mexican American adults."
For Mexican-American women, 2009-10 period, and then it jumped from 161.6 pounds to 172 pounds in 2015-16, according to the report.
Long, who was not involved in the research, pointed out that this weight gain increases the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and "providing excellent care to people with obesity is critical."
"Medical costs to care for patients with obesity are estimated to be as high as $ 210 billion per year." In addition, obesity is associated with job absenteeism and lower productivity while at work, costing the system more than $ 6 billion each year, "Kraschnewski, who was not involved with this research, wrote in an email.
Kraschnewski believes that there are a number of reasons for increasing obesity, such as to be more important, and therefore, it is a must.
"The complexity of the many causes of obesity requires that it be equal complex," she said, citing community and policy approaches such as soda taxes.
