When the issue is obesity, the questions are many, and the routes to answers anything but straight. What is abundantly clear is a need for consensus on two foundational matters: To answer these ...

In 2020, Mississippi had the highest adult obesity rate at 40%, followed by West Virginia and Alabama. Colorado had the lowest adult obesity rate nationally at 24%. (As recently as 2012, no state had ...

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New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided insight into the prevalence of obesity across the United States. The figures, initially from the 2023 Adult ...

The nation’s childhood obesity problem prompts the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its BMI growth charts for kids. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

More than 4 in 10 Americans now fit the medical definition for having obesity, putting them at risk for serious health problems, including diabetes, heart disease and some types of cancer. But when ...

Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how excess body fat affects the body, and factors in waist circumference, rather than simply calculating ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Charumathi Sabanayagam, MD, PhD, from the Singapore Eye Research Institute, and colleagues gathered data from 10 ...