Study bolsters evidence severe obesity increasing in young US kids

A close-up of a beam scale is seen in New York, on April 3, 2018. [AP Photo]

A new study adds to evidence that severe obesity is becoming more common in young U.S. children.

There was some hope that children in a government food program might be bucking a trend in obesity rates - earlier research found rates were dropping a little about a decade ago for those kids. But an update released Monday in the journal Pediatrics shows the rate bounced back up a bit by 2020.