St. Luke's Miners Memorial Hospital staff Hollie Gibbons, manager, Disease Prevention Programs, top left, and Lauri Price, Community Health Nurse, center, talk with children at the Tamaqua Salvation Army about the importance of not over indulging. According the the latest National and Examination Survey, about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese, while approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of U.S. children and adolescents aged 2-19 years are obese.