The obesity rate among U.S. adults fell in 2023 for the first time in over a decade, according to a new study released on Friday. The study published in the journal JAMA Health Forum found that obesity nationwide has dropped from 46 percent in 2022 to 4
Around 40% of adults in the U.S. are obese, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests — marking the first time in over a decade that the nation's obesity rate has not inched up in results from the federal government's national health survey. The figures ...
Study find US has higher rate of obesity than CanadaMIKE STOBBE
The two countries have different racial demographics. The United States has more black and Hispanic people, and both have higher rates of obesity. But even looking solely at white people, there was still a big difference - a 26 percent obesity rate in Canada compared to 33 percent in the Un...
In 2013, not one state had an adult obesity rate topping 35 percent, but 10 years later, 23 states had achieved that distinction. Obesity is defined by the CDC as a body mass index of 30 or higher. Millions more Americans struggling with their weight is really bad news, the CDC said ...
obesity rate continues to rise, with an especially large jump in the ranks of people who are severely obese. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File) By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 is severely so,...
Incoming Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson outlined his plans to help individuals while also making government more efficient during his inaugural address as the state Legislature convened for its first week of session Associated PressJan. 15, 2025...
Colorado at 20.5 percent had the lowest obesity rate—still a sobering figure when, in 1980, no state at all had a rate surpassing 15 percent. The data appears in "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future," produced by the non-profit Trust for America's Health and the Robe...
with more older people considered obese than young. The rate of severe obesity — defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or more — clocked just below 10 per cent; however, the data also shows the age-adjusted prevalence of severe obesity over 10 years increased by two...
Most telling though, the results that show that the overall obesity rate in the U.S. has not changed significantly in a decade, even as the rate of severe obesity climbed from nearly 8% in the 2013-2014 survey to nearly 10% in the most recent one. Before that, obesity had increased ...