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Apple gets fatter

- By MAX JAEGER mjaeger@nypost.com

More New Yorkers are living off the fat of the land — and nearly half of The City That Never Sleeps has trouble getting shut-eye, according to new studies.

Almost one-third of city residents — 32.4 percent — were considered obese in 2014, compared with only 27.5 percent a decade earlier, according to the study conducted by NYU and published Tuesday in the Journal of Urban Health.

Big Apple residents can blame the increasing popularity of eating out and ordering in for their growing waistlines, concluded the study, which relied on data from the city Health Department.

And most of the foods being consumed aren’t the healthy ones. Fewer fruits and vegetables were reported consumed over the study period from 2004 to 2014.

Just 9.9 percent of people reported eating veggies on a weekly basis in 2014, compared with 13.7 percent a decade before. Fruit eaters took a similar dive, from 7.8 percent to just 5.6 percent.

Instead, New Yorkers made an extra restaurant run each week — bringing the average number of times people in the survey ate out from 2.7 meals a week to 3.8.

Walking and sweating it out in the subway may be helping residents maintain a slimmer physique than the rest of the nation, however.

Obesity rates nationwide grew from 27.6 percent to 36.6 percent during the study period, according to the researcher­s.

Still, New Yorkers are lazier than they were a decade ago.

Fewer people reported getting exercise in the 30 days before being surveyed, while the share of folks who spent more than three hours daily in front of the TV jumped from 48 percent to 63.5 percent.

On the snooze front, 42 percent of New Yorkers reported having trouble sleeping.

The researcher­s used data collected from more than 1,500 New Yorkers ages 20 and up, according to the Health Department.

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