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The CDC claims that the percent of obese Americans in 2008 was 25.6%. So if the population in 2008 was 304,059,724, then at that time there were 77,839,289 obese Americans. They claim this is a rough estimate, given they asked people over the phone their height and weight, and didn’t get it from medical sources.
