The average 18-year-old female is overweight, according to measurements collected by the National Center for Health Statistics. A body mass ...

"How would you describe your own personal weight situation right now?" When asked this question, only 41 percent of the American p...

Just ahead of the holiday festivities, the National Center for Health Statistics has issued a report on trends in obesity by age. Do you thi...

There's a lot of tsk-tsking about how little exercise Americans get, with many blaming our couch potato lifestyle for our growing girth....

Obesity continues to spread. Among Americans aged 20 or older, 42.4 percent are obese according to the 2017–18 National Health and Nutrition...

Why now, Gallup? Just as the holiday season commences, Gallup again releases the results of a survey that reminds us to watch our weight—as ...

More than one in three teenagers has tried to lose weight in the past year, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Among 16...

When the General Social Survey is taken every two years, GSS interviewers who talk to respondents in person are asked to rate respondents an...

The average man weighs 198 pounds. These figures come from the the federal government's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey...

If eating high-fat food was the cause of obesity, then Americans would be losing weight. The fat content of the American diet has fallen sub...

Forty percent of Americans aged 20 or older are obese, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The obesity rate varies by ra...

Something is not right with this picture. Since the early 1960s, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, the percentage of A...

Most Americans are overweight, and many are trying to do something about it. You could almost call it a national obsession. In the past 12...

Diabetes has become a common health condition among older Americans, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Overall, 8.8 pe...

It's not who you think it is. Healthy weight adults (with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.99), spent the most time eating on an average day in 2016,...

The better educated you are, the longer you are likely to live. What are the reasons for the educational disparity in mortality? A study pub...

Americans are putting on the pounds, but that's ok with them because their "ideal" weight is also rising, according to a Gallu...

One in three Americans is obese, up from one in five two decades ago. Here is the trend... Percent of people aged 20 or older who are obes...

More than two-thirds of American adults are overweight and more than one-third are obese, according to the National Center for Health Statis...

The average woman weighed 168.5 pounds in 2011-14, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, five-plus pounds more than the 16...