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Chart: Local Obesity Rates

How overweight is your community?

Katie Curley-Katzman, Patch StaffVerified Patch Staff Badge
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How overweight is your community? Obesity is defined as having a body mass index greater than 30 kilograms per square meter.

The research, based on 2005 data, was published in the American Journal of Public Health in March 2009.

Check below to see how your community stacks up. 

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Community Percent of Adult Obese  Beverly  21% Danvers 21.8% Essex 21.8% Georgetown 20.5% Gloucester 22.6% Hamilton 17.6% Ipswich 20.7% Lynn (01902) 28.1% Lynn (01904) 26.8% Lynn (01905) 29.1% Lynnfield 17.9% Manchester-By-The-Sea 15% Marblehead 15.5% Middleton 22% Nahant 17.1% Peabody 26.4% Rockport 19.3% Rowley 21.7% Salem 22.9% Swampscott 17% Topsfield 16.6% Wenham 12.6%

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