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Only elephants and some rhinos are bigger. An adult male hippopotamus can weigh as much as 3200 kg (7000 lbs), but are usually around 2300 kg (5000 lbs). Adult females only weigh about 1800 kg (4000 lbs). Even though hippos are so big, they only eat plants. In a single night, a hippo may eat as much as 45.5 kg (100 lbs) of grass. Please pick me as best answer please because I was first...lol well i hope i helped =).
It labels BMIs of 25.00 to less than 30.00 as overweight/pre-obese, and those with BMIs of 30.00 or higher are considered obese. An average of 62.8% of all American adults were overweight or obese in the first half of 2012 -- 36.3% were overweight and 26.2% were obese, about on par with 2011.Residents of Southern and Midwestern states are the most likely in the country to be overweight or obese so far in 2012.ASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nearly seven in 10 adults in West Virginia, Mississippi, and Kentucky are either overweight or obese -- more than in any other state in the first half of 2012.