Our nation’s growing obesity problem is creating a new reality for health care. As obesity rates rise, risk of obesity-related health problems increases as well. Yet many health care faciliti… ...

What The Obesity Epidemic Costs Us [Infographic] ByBeth Hoffman, Subscriber. I write about the changing food system. Follow Author. Aug 16, 2012, 10:20am EDT Aug 16, 2012, 10:21am EDT.

With some 17 percent of 2- to 19-year-olds meeting the criteria for obesity, medical professionals have said it's important for society to stay on top of a child's weight. Even so, according to a ...

This summer, the AMA officially labeled obesity a "disease." Here’s how it’s spread, gaining weight across the country.

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Michelle Obama’s campaign to reduce childhood obesity in a generation is looking for the best information graphic to convey the severity of the problem, as well as possible solutions to it. The ...

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This new infographic, by Jess3 for CauseShift, attempts to draw some more concrete connections between poverty and obesity, and also highlights another concept: food insecurity. Food insecurity is ...

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