My arms were enormous,“ Chantel, 26, of Minersville, a registered nurse at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, said as she examined the photos with a critical eye Monday.
On their wedding day, Chantel, who is 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighed 240 pounds. Michael, 37, a warrant officer with the Pennsylvania National Guard, weighed the same at 5 feet 6 1/2 inches tall.
Those images convinced Chantel that she had a problem with obesity. Someone is considered obese if his or her body mass index is 30 or more and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it’s becoming more of a problem nationwide.
In the nation, 35.7 percent of adults and 17 percent of children are obese.
In Pennsylvania, 29 percent of adults and 15 percent of children are obese, according to 2010 and 2011 statistics from the CDC and state Department of Health and a study released last month.
The percentage of adults in Pennsylvania who are obese has been on the rise: 2001-03, 23 percent; 2004-06, 24 percent; 2007-09, 28 percent, according to the state.
In Berks and Schuylkill counties, 30 percent of adults are obese, according to 2010 state statistics. In the past decade, the Berks/Schuylkill obesity percentage rates were: 2001-03, 25 percent; 2004-06, 25 percent; and 2007-09, 31 percent.
„That’s as far as we can break down the statistics for adults in Schuylkill and Berks counties. The sample sizes for both weren’t big enough to break them down individually, and the 2011 statistics aren’t in yet,“ Kait Gillis, deputy press secretary for the state Department of Health, said Monday.
The state Department of Health also has obesity statistics on children reported by school districts in Schuylkill County, according to Holli Senior, the department’s deputy press secretary.
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