The increase in obesity has meant that the most popular procedure now is liposuction.
It set a goal for 2025 of no increase in obesity or diabetes beyond the levels of 2010.
"The main reason for the increase in obesity over the past 30 years is the cost of food.
Statistics clearly show a massive increase in obesity as manufacturers of unhealthy processed foods ratchet up their marketing in the developing world.
Applied to eating, the Coolidge effect explains not only the success of fad diets but also the increase in obesity over the past century.
Each successive postwar generation was enjoying an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, and those lifestyles have been accompanied by an apparently inexorable increase in obesity.
That went along with a 74percentt increase in obesity, the agency noted, "reflecting the strong correlation between obesity and the development of diabetes".
Type 2 diabetes has always run in families; the increase in obesity among adolescents and young adults has it running faster than ever.
"It only takes 10 to 20 calories more per day per person to account for the increase in obesity since the 1970's," he said.
Factors behind the increase in obesity include rising incomes and urbanisation, which tend to lead to diets rich in animal produce, fat, salt and sugar; and the various influences of globalisation, among them advertising and the media, on diets.
The city's rates of obesity and new diabetes diagnoses both increased by 17percentt during the two-year study period, compared with a 6percentt increase in obesity prevalence and no increase in diabetes diagnoses nationally.
