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
  • The findings, the team said, could help in the treatment of obesity in the future.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, obesity rates in America shot up for the first time in the ’80s.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 10 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • This can lead to a cycle of overeating, which can result in overeating and weight gain or obesity.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2025
  • 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 | Ayurkanin@al.com, 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
  • This growing global health crisis calls for effective obesity treatments to reduce the burden on healthcare systems.
    Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
  • With the new treatment, the two companies are hoping to better respond to the heterogeneous demands of obesity treatment and its associated comorbidities, Roche’s Chakravarthy said.
    Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025

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