Latest Epidemiology of obesity Stories

U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday that women who are poor are much more likely to be obese, but for some reason the same does not hold true for men.They found that income does not greatly affect whether a man is obese but that education seems to affect both sexes. "Among men, obesity prevalence is generally similar at all income levels, with a tendency to be slightly higher at higher income levels," the team at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) wrote.Obesity...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- An analysis of nationally representative data showed that being obese in adolescence increases the risk of being severely obese in adulthood, with the risk higher in women, and highest for black women.Individuals with severe obesity (body mass index [BMI] 40 or greater) encounter serious and potentially life-threatening health complications. "In 2000, an estimated 2.2 percent of adults, or 4.8 million individuals, were severely obese, with a disproportionately...

An analysis of nationally representative data suggests that being obese in adolescence increases the risk of being severely obese in adulthood, with the risk higher in women, and highest for black women, according to a study in the November 10 issue of JAMA.Individuals with severe obesity (body mass index [BMI] 40 or greater) encounter serious and potentially life-threatening health complications. "In 2000, an estimated 2.2 percent of adults, or 4.8 million individuals, were severely...

The United States is at the forefront of the world's richest countries that are getting fatter and fatter, according to an organization of leading economies on Thursday. The first ever forecast on obesity says three out of four Americans will be overweight or obese by 2020, and disease rates and health care spending will expand, unless a strategy to combat the growing epidemic can be agreed upon by individuals, governments and the health care industry, the study by the Organization for...

Despite government-led efforts to reduce the American obesity rate to 15% by 2010, a study published earlier this month in the International Journal of Obesity has found the actual percentage of obese adults in the U.S. are on the rise.In fact, the study, which was written by officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that obesity rates among adults have risen from 13% in the early 1960s, to more than 30% in 1999, to 32% in men and 35% in women by 2007-2008....

National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month kicks off with sobering news INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the U.S. launches its first-ever National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month today, scientists say the problem may be even more widespread than was thought. Researchers have found that parents tend to underreport their children's weight. Estimates of obesity and body mass index (BMI) based on parent-supplied data may miss one in five obese children. This sobering news...

The overall extent of obesity in children seems to have peaked, but new research from California shows that the numbers are still climbing among Native American and African American girls.The biggest increases in obesity rates in the past ten years have occurred among the heaviest youths, no matter what their gender or ethnicity, according to Dr. Kristine Madsen of the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues.According to recent national data percentages of children who are...

Men who enter adult life obese face a life-long doubling of the risk of dying prematurely, new research has found.In a study presented today (Tuesday) at the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm, researchers tracked more than 5,000 military conscripts starting at the age of 20 until up to the age of 80. They found that at any given age, an obese man was twice as likely to die as a man who was not obese and that obesity at age 20 years had a constant effect on death up to 60 years...

Striking Disparities Persist; Obesity Rates Highest Among Blacks and Southerners WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Adult obesity rates increased in 28 states in the past year, and declined only in the District of Columbia (D.C.), according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010, a report from the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). More than two-thirds of states (38) have adult obesity rates above 25 percent. In...

The prevalence of childhood obesity and overweight appears to vary widely among states, according to a report posted online May 3rd that will appear in the July print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Over the past three decades, childhood obesity has dramatically increased in the United States, according to background information in the article. The rate of obese children has more than tripled in this timeframe and remains high...