Looking for US percentage of population overweight or obese over last 50 years

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I've seen other charts that reference data from the CDC, but I haven't found anything useful on their site, and they don't return emails.

Thoughts?

are any of these answers useful? opendata.stackexchange.com/a/5256/1511 — philshem, Commented Oct 27, 2018 at 13:54
Wikipedia pointed me to niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/… which has a graph, and the references section seems to have at least some data to support those graphs. Goes back to 1960. — user3856, Commented Oct 27, 2018 at 15:27

philshem · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-27 13:53:34Z

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Only a small time slice, but you can get since 2000 for every country from FAO.

Select: United States

Select:

Select: "All years"

Click "Download Data" (or pastebin)

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answered Oct 27, 2018 at 13:53

philshem

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Thanks for you work you put into this. At this point I really need to get data going back at least 50 years, or as long as I can get it. I may try to contact CDC using a few more other means, they also have a phone number listed so maybe I'll try that. Thanks again.
– Sylvia
Commented Oct 27, 2018 at 15:05

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