Posted on 02/26/2026 5:13:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday revealed that childhood and teen obesity rates in the U.S. have reached record highs in recent years.
The first report details how the CDC’s researchers found that 40.3 percent of adults 20 and older were found to be obese, which included 9.7 percent who have severe obesity and another 31.7 percent who are classified as overweight. This report was conducted between August 2021 and August 2023.
Between 1988 and 1994, when the second report was being surveyed, researchers found that almost 23 percent of adults 20 years and older were found to be obese. Of that number, 2.8 percent had severe obesity, and 33.1 percent were deemed overweight.
The researchers relied on heights and weights established by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to monitor and track years-long trends. Surveying for both reports was paused starting in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed in August 2021.
Professor David Ludwig of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health called the rate levels “exceptionally concerning.” He noted in a report published by the school that obesity rates were previously on a decline for children between 2 and 5 years old in the 2010s, something he said was a “glimmer of hope.” What reached down to 9.4 percent between 2013 and 2014 jumped to a 14.9 percent obesity rate.
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More fruits and vegetables, and less salty snacks, plus kicking the kid’s asses outside to play instead of sitting in front of a screen would do wonders.
Truly sickening.
Thanks Dems.
This is easily solved. Just pay big pharma to put the Ozempic stuff directly into the lunchables type crap the kids eat nowadays.
FReegards
Less processed food...more home cooking
These days a significant percent of these fat kids wouldn’t know how to boil water as they live on processed foods in a box. 30 ingredients go into a cracker...
So, sloppy joes, tater tots and a 12 oz coke is not a healthy lunch?
I bet 90% of that obesity is blacks and latinos
While it’s true that a lot of folks are overweight, I’m not sure the percentages are as high as they claim. One reason is to meet the “recommended” BMI, you have to look like a concentration camp inmate. I’m 5’ 11” and the chart says I ought to weigh around 140 pounds...
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Carbs.
I’ve been watching some of the shows I watched in the late 1950s and 60s, like the original ‘Candid Camera’ and ‘What’s My Line’. Especially in the latter, it’s been amazing to me how thin most of the people were, especially the ladies.
In those days, everyone cooked from scratch. We didn’t yet have quite so many processed and prepared foods in the supermarket.
How about better parenting?
I’m thinking this is a good argument to end SNAP. Think of the children.
I’m thinking this is a good argument to end SNAP. Think of the children.
Isn’t a BMI of 30, not 29 or 31, the line between overweight and obese? I am always skeptical when they toss out numbers like that. Nothing in nature comes out to round numbers.
BMI is retarded. A body builder with 4% body fat is considered obese using BMI.
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