In 1999-2000, 14% of US boys, 2-19 years old, were obese, by 2009-2010, 18.6% were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009–2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 1999-2000, 13.8% of US girls, 2-19 years old, were obese, by 2009-2010, 15% were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009–2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009-2010, 7 million US boys and 5.5 million US girls aged 2-19 were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009–2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009-2010, 18.6% of US boys, 2-19 years old, were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009–2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009-2010, 15% of US girls, 2-19 years old, were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009-2010, 14.4% of US boys, 2- to 5-years-old, were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009-2010, 9.6% of US girls, 2- to 5-years-old, were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009-2010, 20.1% of US boys, 6- to 11-years-old, were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009–2010, 15.7% of US girls, 6- to 11-years-old, were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009–2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009-2010, 19.6% of US boys, 12-19 years old, were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009-2010, 17.1% of US girls, 12-19 years old, were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2010, as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Between 1999-2000 and 2009-2010, there was an increase in the prevalence of obesity among boys, but not among girls according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009–2010,  as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009-2010, over 78 million US adults and about 12.5 million US children and adolescents were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2010,  as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2009-2010, 16.9% of U.S. children were obese according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2010,  as reported by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Teen boys who sleep 7 hours or less on weekdays weigh roughly 7 lbs more than those sleeping more than 7 hours according to a study by Radha Rao, MD, DeBakey of the VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas and others.

Teen girls who sleep 7 hours or less on weekdays weigh roughly 6 lbs more than those sleeping more than 7 hours according to a study by Radha Rao, MD, DeBakey of the VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas and others.

Here is a table showing the childhood obesity rates in US states for children 10- to 17-years-old as shown in the report “F” as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future from Trust for America’s Health, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Here is a table showing the childhood obesity rates in US states for children 10- to 17-years-old in the states with the highest and lowest rates of obesity as shown in the report “F” as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future from Trust for America’s Health, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Here is a table showing the percentage of obese and overweight U.S. High School students by race as shown in the report “F” as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future from Trust for America’s Health, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Here is a table showing the percentage of obese and overweight U.S. High School students by sex as shown in the report “F” as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future from Trust for America’s Health, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Here is a table showing the percentage of obese and overweight U.S. High School students by sex and race as shown in the report “F” as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future from Trust for America’s Health, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

“More than one-third of children ages 10–17 are obese (16.4 percent) or overweight (18.2 percent). State-specific rates ranged from a low of 9.6 percent in Oregon to a high of 21.9 percent in Mississippi.,” according to the report “F” as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future from Trust for America’s Health, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

“Nine states, plus D.C., have childhood obesity rates greater than 20 percent: Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia,” according to the report “F” as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future from Trust for America’s Health, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

“Nine of the 10 states with the highest rates of obese children are in the South, as are nine out of the 10 states with the highest rates of poverty,” according to the report “F” as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future from Trust for America’s Health, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

“Recent studies have shown that the number of obese children and adolescents may have leveled off since 1999, except among the very heaviest boys ages 6–19, but the rates remain startlingly high,” according to the report “F” as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future from Trust for America’s Health, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.