Health care cost burden for obese getting heavier

Caring for obese people is eating up an ever-bigger slice of the US health care spending pie, a new government report shows.
From 2001 to 2006, health care expenditures on obese adults rose from $167 billion to $303 billion, an 82 percent jump, according to an analysis by Marie N. Stagnitti, a senior survey statistician at [...]

1 in 7 Low-Income Preschoolers Is Obese

One in seven preschoolers from low-income families in the United States are considered obese, a new government report shows.
However, the same report finds that the news is not all bad: The childhood obesity epidemic does seem to be leveling off among children in this group.
Among 2- to 4-year-olds from low-income families, the prevalence of obesity [...]