Cancer deaths linked to obesity more than tripled in the United States during the past two decades, a new study says.

Obesity is uncommon among Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Tsimane forager-farmers in Bolivia, Tuvan herder-farmers in Siberia, and other people in less-developed nations. But it’s widespread among ...

For decades, conventional wisdom has blamed obesity on inactivity. But a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) challenges ...

Obesity-related cancer deaths in the U.S. have tripled in just two decades, with women, older adults, and minority groups ...

Cancer deaths linked to obesity have tripled in the United States over the past two decades, according to a study being ...

Obesity has become a public health crisis in the United States. The medical condition, which involves having an excessive amount of body fat, is linked to severe chronic diseases including type 2 ...

Cancer deaths linked to obesity have tripled across the United States over the past two decades, according to new research ...

A total of 16 states had obesity rates of 35% or more in 2020, up from nine states in 2018. Just two decades ago, no state had an adult obesity rate above 25%. ...

Obesity rates have tripled over the past 30 years in the United States. Per capita obesity in the US is among the highest in the world. Currently, over one-third of adults and one-sixth of youths ...

Sept. 13, 2024 – Obesity remains a significant health issue in the United States, even as weight loss drugs are getting more popular, according to new data from the CDC.. On Thursday, the CDC ...

For the first time in decades, promising news has emerged regarding efforts to curb the obesity crisis in the United States. Obesity rates have fallen among low-income children in 18 states, the ...

Rates of childhood obesity in the United States have tripled in the past three decades, and early data suggest already surging rates were further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.