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
• A decade ago, no state had an adult obesity rate over 35%.
  — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 31 Dec. 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
• The image of the obesity drug Wegovy should not have appeared with the article.
  — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• 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
• India has the world’s third largest number of people with obesity.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 1 July 2024
• 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
• Bariatric surgery is for people who are living with obesity.
  — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 5 July 2024
• New research shows that in high-income countries, the obesity rate has slowed slightly.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• What’s more, about 80% of kids with obesity will turn into adults with obesity.
  — Marina Kopf, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
• The film presents us with obesity as tragedy, and as a preventable scourge inflicted on the hero by a hostile and traumatizing world.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
• All of which limits their suggesting obesity medicines to teenagers.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• On the health front, the CDC says that not getting enough sleep is linked with type 2 diabetes, obesity, depression, and heart disease.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
• The most notable reductions in obesity rates have been among preschool children.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• Amgen today said its experimental obesity drug, MariTide, helped patients lose up to 20% of their weight in a year, with no plateau.
  — Pete Gannon, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
• But the Biden administration said such coverage is necessary to combat the nation’s obesity epidemic which is adding to healthcare costs already.
  — Bruce Japsen, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024