TABLE 2.

PERCENT OBESE AT WAVE 1 AND WAVE 3 BY RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: AMERICANS’ CHANGING LIVES, 1986–1994

	Number of Cases, W1	Obesity
		W1	W3
Baptista	1,098	24%	30%
Fundamentalist Protestantb	250	18	22
Pietistic Protestantc	509	13	19
Nondenominational Protestant	166	5	5
Reformation-Era Protestant	453	9	9
Catholic	720	17	17
Nontraditionalistd	92	2	3
Jewish	59	1	1
Other non-Christiane	18	0.2	0.7
None	237	6	7
Total	3,602

^aIncludes Southern Baptist, North American Baptist, Fundamentalist Baptist.

^bIncludes Church of Christ, Pentecostal/Assembly of God, Church of God.

^cIncludes Methodist, Christian Church, African Methodist Episcopal.

^dIncludes Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormon, Seventh Day Adventists, and Christian Scientist.

^eIncludes Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist.