A new study from the New England Journal of Medicine indicates the current obesity epidemic trends in the United States are much worse than thought. The study was published on Wednesday and already has demographers, government officials, and scientist alarmed. The sobering report finds 57.3% of the

On the day of peak gorging, we are reminded that America is facing a sustained obesity crisis. As Statista's Dyfed Loesche notes, many doctors are warning that the fat scourge is reaching epidemic proportions. Some experts believe that obesity is responsible for more ill health than smoking.

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." -James Bovard I am sick and tired of the MSM and government's useless puffball surveys, and have been searching for better social, economic, and political data on the internet.  However, what little

According to a new report, one third of U.S. adults are obese along with one in six children. The research was conducted by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and, as Statista's Nial McCarthy explains, it found that the adult obesity rate exceeded 35 percent in

The opioid epidemic isn’t the only public-health crisis costing the economy hundreds of billions of dollars. According to the Trust for America’s Health’s annual “State of Obesity” report, nearly 40% of American adults are obese or overweight.  And collectively, they will add some $150 billion to