WASHINGTON (DC News Now) –September has been dubbed National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Childhood obesity is ...

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S., but the proportion of those with severe obesity — especially women — has ...

New CDC data reveals a concerning rise in severe obesity among U.S. adults, with women and middle-aged individuals most affected. The obesity epidemic continues to strain the healthcare system with ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says one in five children and adolescents are obese.Rates are higher in ...

Virginia Tech Department Head of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise explained the rise in childhood obesity is now causing ...

Rising obesity rates are as American as apple pie — a cliché that ... no. We saw similar results in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a separate, gold-standard CDC data set that ...

At least 1 in 5 adults in each U.S. state live with obesity, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

So-called "weekend warriors" who squeeze the recommended activity time into two days had the same similarly lower rates of ...

The CDC says Iowa is one of 23 states where one in every three adults is considered obese, in 2013 there were no states with ...

West Virginia comes in last or very near the bottom in all kinds of significant categories. It’s been that way for so long, it’s almost a running joke. And when the state is at the top of a list, it’s ...

West Virginia comes in last or very near the bottom in all kinds of significant categories. It’s been that way for so long, it’s almost a running joke. And when the state is at the top of a list, it’s ...

Being able to maintain a healthy diet improves a lot of health issues. The CDC has new data showing the obesity rate has gone ...