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Obesity is a disease characterized by having excessive body fat, increasing a person’s risk for many serious health problems, ...

"When you have two-thirds plus of the active duty military force that's obese ... you know you've got a huge problem," ...

About 40% of Louisiana adults are obese, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An alarming 41.4 percent of the state's children fall into this category. This rate towers above the US national average ...

The corner bodega or neighborhood Kwik-E-Mart could be fueling childhood obesity in the United States, a new study suggests.

Mesa County Public Health's Community Health Needs Assessment found the obesity rate in Mesa County is around 30%.

(HealthDay News) — Statistics from 2023 on US obesity rates reveal that in every US state, one in every five people now has obesity, according to data released Thursday by the US Centers for Disease ...

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The American Academy of Pediatrics said aggressive obesity interventions would not fuel eating disorders. But authors of the ...

Statistics from 2023 on United States obesity rates reveal that in every US state, 1 in every 5 people now has obesity.