US News has weighed in on America’s ever-expanding waistline, ranking the country’s most obese states — and the results may ...

Deaths attributed to both acute heart attack and obesity rose between 2007 and 2019, according to findings from the CDC ...

Celebrating a nice-looking chart is much easier than understanding ... In 2023, a team of Greek researchers wrote that obesity rates might stabilize in developed countries in the next few years ...

The obesity rate metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best States rankings. See the Best States methodology for a detailed look at the data behind the analysis. #1 in Low Obesity Rate ...

Obesity rates in Delaware are above the national average. More than one in three adults is obese, with the same statistic for children who are overweight or obese. According to The State of Obesity: ...

They are also more likely to be on long-term sick leave, the Swedish study of the long-term labour market outcomes of childhood obesity found. Rates of childhood obesity are higher in individuals ...

Yet France and Italy have much lower obesity rates than the UK. How is that so, and are there lessons we could learn from our European neighbours? The UK is one of the heaviest nations in Europe ...