date:Sep 06, 2012
he World Health Organization, accounts for the death of least 2.8 million adults each year. In the United States, obesity is a leading cause of preventable death, second only to smoking.
New York City is not exempt from this crisis: 5,800 New Yorkers die annually as a result of obesity and one in eight adult New Yorkers now has diabetes. By borough, the combined overweight-obesity rates are: 69.7 percent in the Bronx, 61.8 percent in Staten Island, 60.3 percent in Brooklyn, 57.2 percent in Quee