Has the obesity epidemic plateaued?
NEW YORK, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Harris Poll finds no significant change this year in the proportions of adults who smoke, wear seatbelts, or are overweight or obese. Using a set of measures that have been included in Harris Polls for almost 30 years, the latest poll finds that 18% of all adults smoke cigarettes, 78% of all adults are overweight, 38% are obese and 91% of all adults claim to use seatbelts when in the front seats of cars. These numbers are virtually identical to the numbers in Harris Polls conducted in 2009 and 2010.These are some of the results of The Harris Poll of 1,987 adults surveyed by telephone and online between April 11 and 18, 2011 by Harris Interactive. This is the first time this survey has been conducted using both telephone interviews with online interviews conducted among those who have no landlines or who mainly use cell phones ("cell phone only" and "cell phone mostly" adults). This is necessary because of the large and growing proportion of people who cannot or are very unlikely to respond to surveys using only landlines.
