U.S. childhood obesity rates have increased since 1999: study | Reuters: The new study, published online in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics, used the same data source as the CDC, but analyzed obesity rates over a different timeframe. It found increases in obesity for children age 2 to 19, and a marked rise in the percentage who were severely obese.
Asheley Cockrell Skinner of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the new study, said the main message of her analysis is that childhood obesity rates have not improved.
"I don't want a study like the previous one to change the national discourse," she told Reuters Health, referring to the CDC's work.
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