Rates Of Childhood Obesity Have Increased Steadily Since 1999, Study Finds.

reports in “Science Now” that “among children from infancy through age 18, rates of obesity have increased steadily from 1999 to 2014, and the numbers of children with the severest forms of obesity have risen most dramatically,” a study published April 26 in Obesity suggests. In 2014, “33.4% of American children...were overweight, and just over half of those kids (17.4% of all children) weighed in as obese.” But, the current percentage of youngsters “categorized with Class II and Class III obesity has risen steeply over the” period from 1999-2000 to 2013-14, “from 4% to 6.3% for Class II-or-above obesity and from 0.9% to 2.4% for Class III obesity.” http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-no-decline-child-obesity-20160425-story.html#nt=oft03a-1la1