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 ...

Obesity is an epidemic in the America. Four in 10 U.S. adults fit the medical definition of having obesity, which puts them at risk for serious health problems, including diabetes, heart disease ...

Here, learn about some options for treating and managing childhood obesity. Healthcare professionals use charts to track the growth of children and teens. These charts use percentiles to ...

Despite national school and community-based efforts to promote healthy behaviors at a young age, childhood obesity is becoming more common in the United States, a recent study found. The research ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts ... after developing a rare childhood bone disease that ...

Digging into the statistics about obesity in the U.S. can help paint a picture of why rates continue to climb, as well as what can be done to slow (or even reverse) these trends.

or B.M.I., at or above the 95th percentile for their age and sex based on C.D.C. growth charts. Childhood obesity also seems to have increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. Though mounting ...

While there are no specific symptoms of childhood obesity ... whether a child’s weight fits the criteria for obesity. They use growth charts to compare children of the same age and sex.

(Allison Robbert/The Washington Post) The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key part of its “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. That’s much ...