For the report, American and Canadian epidemiologists and statisticians collaborated to create a comparison of childhood obesity in the two countries. The investigators found that in the late 1970s, the United States and Canada had similar childhood obesity rates—roughly 5 percent. Both countries als...
CDC: Some States Report Decreasing Rates Of Childhood ObesitySmall but significant declines in obesity among low-income preschoolers were found in 18 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2008 to 2011.Kaiser Health News
Cdc: State Obesity Rates Remain HighThe latest state obesity map released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that adult obesity rates have remained high across the nationFox News
"It's extremely important to make sure we're monitoring obesity in this low-income group," said the CDC's Heidi Blanck, who worked on the study. Those kids are known to be at higher risk of obesity than their well-off peers, in part because access to healthy food is often limited in...
While the difference from 2020 to 2023 was too small to be counted as a statistically significant decrease, the modest decline breaks a streak of rates that had been increasing virtually every year since 2011. "In the United States, the prevalence of obesity in adults remains above the Healthy...
Survey of 400,000 Americans found Colorado had lowest obesity rate at under 21 percent; Mississippi highest at 34.9 percent
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) indicate the adult obesity rates in the United States are now a staggering 40 percent while youth obesity rates grew to 20 perc
Obesity and severe obesity rates were highest in black adults, compared to other races. Hales said this report can only raise awareness of the growing rates of obesity and severe obesity. It doesn't contain any specific recommendations for addressing the problem. ...
Overall, the rates of obesity-related cancers, not including colorectal cancer, increased by seven percent between 2005 and 2014, while the rates of non-obesity related cancers declined by 13 percent during that time. Colorectal cancer decreased 23 percent, due in large part to screening. ...
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