For past so many years, public awareness campaigns and other efforts have been done to bring a decline in obesity rates in America. But a new government research paper has shown that despite these efforts, obesity continues to rise among American adults.

As pr a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more number of women in comparison to men has become obese. In 2013-14, the obesity rates have increased to around 38% of adults, an uptick from 32% from a decade earlier.

Dr. William Dietz, an obesity expert at George Washington University, said that the report has acted as a bleak truth. It now seems that the situation, which was thought to be getting better, is actually becoming worse.

Obesity, which means a person being severely overweight, is one of the main public health problems for the US for around a decade now. As per a data, by the end of 1980s, around one in six adults were obese, but now the things have changed and the rate has climbed to around one in 3 around a decade ago.

The results have been based on the survey of around 5,000 participants each year. Study's lead author Cynthia Ogden from the CDC, is especially quite bothered by the widening gap between men and women in the case of obesity rate.

In the case of while men and white women, the gap is not much, but for blacks, the obesity rate among females has increased to 57%, which is much more than male rate of 38%.