Overall, 33.4 percent of American adults have obesity, a CDC report revealed, while separate figures suggest the rates among children are as high as 17 percent. The recent CDC report found the ...

Mississippi has been crowned the unhealthiest state in the U.S., according to data collected on national rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Sometimes referred to under the ...

An eye-opening new map has ranked countries by obesity levels ... is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), while the study indicates globally, 39 percent of adults ...

The CDC defines obesity as having a body mass index (BMI) of at least 30, and a shocking 20% of Americans meet that criteria, ...

On Sept. 19, the CDC released the 2023 Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps, which showed that Nevada’s adult obesity prevalence for ...

while women were nearly twice as likely as men to report severe obesity, CDC says. Even though the overall obesity rates have ticked down as compared to the 2017-2020 survey, experts do not ...

And at the same time, lockdowns, which increased unhealthy habits overall, contributed to America’s already-extant obesity epidemic, particularly for children. Now, even the CDC has caught on.

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 ...