Posts Tagged ‘childhood obesity’
Severe childhood obesity up sharply in U.S
The rate of severe obesity among U.S. children and teenagers more than tripled over the past three decades, a new study finds. Using data from a long-running government health survey, researchers found that as of 2004, nearly 4 percent of 2- to 19-year-olds in the U.S. were severely obese. That was up more than three-fold from...