Obesity Rates Among US Kids, Teens Have Increased Substantially More Than In Canada Since Late 1970s, CDC Finds.

reports that obesity rates among US kids and teens “have increased substantially more than in Canada since the late 1970s,” according to an August data brief released by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Epidemiologist Cynthia L. Ogden, PhD, of the NCHS, and colleagues “found that, whereas the obesity rate among children between three and 19 was about 5% in both the US and Canada in the late 1970s, it rose to 17.5% in the U.S. by 2012 and only 13% in Canada by 2013.” Interestingly, obesity rates in both Canada and the US “have leveled off” over the past decade. http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/25/health/us-canada-obesity-rates/index.html