Obesity dipped slightly in U.S. adults last year, research found — the first time in more than a decade that the country has seen a downward trend. That might be due, in part, to the recent rise ...

For the first time in a decade, adult obesity in the United States dropped last year, a new study has found ... the exact cause for the dip in obesity, but weight loss drugs like Ozempic are ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

After years of rising obesity rates in the US, the numbers dipped slightly during 2023, though experts disagree about the exact cause ...

The obesity rate ... 2022 to 45.6 percent last year. The researchers also discovered that obesity has declined substantially in the South, including among women older adults, ages 66 to 75.

U.S. Adult Obesity ... BMI dipped to 30.21 -- the first decline in a decade, according to Rader's team. The percentage of Americans who were obese also declined slightly that year.

The study looked at the body mass index of 16.7 million adults in the United States from 2013 to 2023. The average BMI rose every year ... the US adult population with obesity by race.

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