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In U.S. Childhood Obesity Rates Have Actually Increased Over the Past 14 Years, the writer bases his article on a study done by JAMA Pediatrics, which draws attention to an increase in childhood obesity in the U.S.. This study was done in response to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) claim that the childhood obesity rate had severely dropped from 2003 to 2011. However, when Dr. Skinner and her colleagues used the same data as the CDC from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, but extended the time range to 1999 to 2012, the study showed significantly different results than what the CDC saw. With over 27,000 children included in the study, Dr. Skinner saw that obesity rates had, in fact, increased from 1999 to 2012.