U.S. childhood obesity rates have increased over the past 14 years, according to a study published on Monday, casting doubt on a recent analysis by government health researchers that found a sharp drop in preschool obesity rates over the past decade.Fox News...
childhood obesity rates have been on the rise.Now some US cities,including Philadelphia,New York City and Los Angeles,are seeing progress in their fight against obesity.Dropping childhood obesity rates have also been reported in parts of Mississippi,the state with the highest obesity rate in the ...
childhood obesity rates have been on the rise.Now some US cities,including Philadelphia,New York City and Los Angeles,are seeing progress in their fight against obesity.Dropping childhood obesity rates have also been reported in parts of Mississippi,the state with the highest obesity rate in the ...
In contrast, UK charity the British Heart Foundation (BHF) reported this week that childhood obesity rose in England between 1995 and 2011, from 11 to 17 per cent of boys and 12 to 16 per cent of girls. Victoria Taylor of the BHF says lack of physical activity and eating too many unhea...
childhood obesity rates have been on the rise.Now some US cities,including Philadelphia,New York City and Los Angeles,are seeing progress in their fight against obesity.Dropping childhood obesity rates have also been reported in parts of Mississippi,the state with the highest obesity rate in the ...
Childhood obesity is on the rise in the U.S. after all, according to a new report published inJAMA Pediatrics. Most alarming, the study finds an increase in the number of children with severe forms of obesity, whose body mass index measured 120- to 140-percent higher than children of ave...
The US obesity rate for adults has climbed to 37.7%, up from 32.2% 10 years ago, according to areportreleased Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And after nearly a decade of women and men having similar rates, women now have higher rates (38.3% vs 34.3%...
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...
1阅读理解 September is National Childhood Obesity Month, a major topic for the US Department of Agriculture(USDA). The agency's program Healthier US School Challenge: Smarter Lunchrooms(HUSSC: SL) fights against childhood obesity by helping more students across the country get healthy food. “Unf...
"The results of this study indicate modest recent progress of obesity prevention among young children. These findings may have important health implications because of the lifelong health risks of obesity and extreme obesity in early childhood." Obesity is most prevalent among minority and low-income ...