There are early signs that obesity rates may have decreased in the US for the first time. A report released Tuesday by the CDC found that 40 percent of US adults were obese from 2021 to 2023, down ...

Even if weight loss medications were a major factor in the decline in obesity, experts said more research is needed over longer periods of time to evaluate the new drugs' true impact.

From 2008-2011 to 2020-2023, there was an increase in the prevalence of obesity among youth and adults with T1D, and GLP-1 RA prescriptions also increased.

It’s no secret that obesity has reached epidemic levels in the United States ... “For us, a win is keeping these health coalitions sustained over time.” Community leaders are eager to keep moving ...

novel studies are needed of factors at the community/societal level that may have caused the current obesity pandemic, since individual-level risk factors appear not to have changed over the time ...