Adult obesity in the United States has gone up over the past 30 years. Here's a look at why.

Researchers reviewed the body mass index of over 11 million Americans.

America’s obesity problem is tipping the scales. A new study found that the share of US adults living with obesity has more ...

The prevalence of obese adults in the United States more than doubled between 1990 and 2022.

A major new study shows U.S. obesity has doubled since 1990 and is expected to keep climbing over the next decade.

The study crunched decades of BMI data taken from several nationally representative surveys, tracking obesity rates from 1990 ...

Adult obesity in the U.S. is projected to affect 47% of the population by 2035, researchers reported Jan. 28 in the Journal ...

Using data culled from nearly 11 million people, the researchers found that just over 19% were obese in 1990, compared to ...

A new definition of obesity could classify more than three-quarters of US adults as having the disease, impacting the ...

Researchers predict the obesity rate among U.S. adults will rise to 47% of the population by 2035. Experts say this trend can ...

Obesity rates have dropped alongside surging use of Ozempic, Wegovy and other blockbuster GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, a new report shows. The obesity rate for adults in the United States slid from a ...

Not long ago, obesity was popularly considered a disease of affluence — the product of excess and overindulgence. Today, obesity is increasingly recognized as a disease of poverty, rooted in ...