Years after Obama’s school lunch rules, kids fatter than ever

The Obama administration’s anti-obesity programs apparently didn’t work, as percentages of overweight and obese children continue to rise.

Despite CNN’s 2015 report to the contrary, obesity has steadily risen between 1999 and 2016, according to Pediatrics journal.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign and federal student lunch regulations attempted to counteract the rising rates of severe and moderate obesity, but public health programs have clearly not worked, the authors wrote.

“We have known about this epidemic of childhood obesity — and have been pouring research dollars and public health dollars into this problem — for at least 20 years,” Sarah Armstrong, associate pediatrics professor at Duke University who assisted in analyzing data for the study told NPR. “And despite that, we don’t seem to be making a big dent in the situation.”