Davian Koren is a Fillmore County home school student, one of 15 area students participating in the Journal Writing Project, now in its 26th year.

In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

Dialysis Centers used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to examine the prevalence of chronic diseases ...

About 20% of children in the U.S. have obesity, according to CDC data. Dr. Gitanjali Srivastava, the medical director of obesity medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, said obesity is ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon thanks to a new set of standards.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity alone costs the U.S. healthcare system nearly $173 billion a year, while diabetes, heart disease, and stroke costs an ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity alone costs the U.S. healthcare system nearly $173 billion a year, while diabetes, heart disease, and stroke costs an ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity alone costs the U.S. healthcare system nearly $173 billion a year, while diabetes, heart disease, and stroke costs an ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity alone costs the U.S. healthcare system nearly $173 billion a year, while diabetes, heart disease, and stroke costs an ...