How to Use obesity in a Sentence

obesity

noun

• The rate of childhood obesity in the U.S. has tripled over the past 50 years.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• Over the past 20 years, Brazil’s obesity rate has doubled to more than 1 in 4 adults.
  — Jack Nicas, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2022
• The study also found that the largest decrease of obesity occurred in the South.
  — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
• A decade ago, no state had an adult obesity rate over 35%.
  — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• Not only that, but sitting all the way could be linked to weight gain and obesity.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 11 Mar. 2022
• Chau plays Liz, a caretaker and friend to a man with obesity.
  — Samantha Kubota, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
• The state's obesity rate was 31.4%, according to the report.
  — Sydney Carruth, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
• During the pandemic, the state obesity rate hit a high of more than 26%.
  — Kavitha Cardoza, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• Read more Just for subscribers: Are drugs or surgery the answer for your child's obesity?
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
• For centuries, obesity has been a focus of scorn and ridicule.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2023
• Greasy hair inspired one team to create a cure for obesity in mice.
  — Maddie Bender, STAT, 28 Feb. 2022
• The image of the obesity drug Wegovy should not have appeared with the article.
  — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Just 1 percent of doctors in the United States are trained in obesity medicine.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2022
• There’s been no trial — Brunner took a plea deal — but still the case has dragged, due in part to Brunner’s obesity and poor health.
  — jsonline.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• The nation has long been in the throes of what is often referred to as an obesity epidemic.
  — Hannah Norman, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2022
• The treatments offer hope to the hundreds of millions of people who have obesity.
  — Angela Fitch, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
• In fact, phentermine is not a new drug for this purpose, as it was approved in 1959 by the FDA for the short-term treatment of obesity.
  — David Snyder, Verywell Health, 30 Mar. 2024
• While it is not yet approved for weight loss, it might be used off-label for obesity—and soon to be approved for it.
  — Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2023
• The patients' mean age was 61, and the mean body mass index was 33, falling in the category of obesity.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
• To be clear, this is not a play about everybody who struggles with obesity.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
• Breathing is a huge issue for people with obesity — there’s sometimes a rattle and a wheeze in the lungs.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• The obesity rate is 36 percent and more than 20 percent of adults smoke, according to the data.
  — Amy Yurkanin | [e-mail], al, 21 Nov. 2022
• Malik and her colleagues plan to measure obesity and heart health over time.
  — Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 21 July 2024
• These drugs have also been given partial credit for a recent dip in obesity rates in the US, which dropped in 2023 for the first time in over a decade.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
• India has the world’s third largest number of people with obesity.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 1 July 2024
• The result is a public health crisis on the scale of the opioid epidemic or obesity, Dr. Murthy said.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Science now knows that the gene for obesity occurs in over 30% of the population.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2023
• There should be no more shame, however, in the disease of obesity than there is in cancer or asthma.
  — Amanda C. Fifi, M.d., Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• And telehealth provider Hims & Hers will put a spotlight on obesity, showing what happens when someone eats too much for too long.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
• Hims & Hers The telehealth company is using its 60-second spot to discuss obesity and weight loss.
  — Monica Sager, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Feb 2025