The CDC defines obesity as having a body mass index (BMI) of at least 30, and a shocking 20% of Americans meet that criteria, ...
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.
There are early signs that obesity rates may have decreased in the US for the first time. A report released Tuesday by the CDC found that 40 percent of US adults were obese from 2021 to 2023 ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 40 percent of adults in the United States are currently considered obese. Now a new report has found that this number is ...
Emmerich, DVM, an epidemiologist at the CDC National Center for Health ... interesting to see compared with historical trends of increasing obesity rates in the U.S. “Collecting these data ...