The US government has admitted that it has overestimated the number people currently suffering from obesity when it stated that weight problems were soon to overshadow smoking as the number one cause of death
The miscalculation has been put down to an software error and the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has re-published its figures on weight related illness in the USA.
The agency however still pointed out that despite the overestimation that obesity in the USA is still a major health problem .
