In a disturbing new milestone for the state of health in the U.S., four out of 10 American women are now classified as obese. A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 35 percent of men and 40 percent of women in the U.S. were classified as obese in 2014, the latest year data were available. Nearly 10 percent of women in the U.S. are morbidly obese, the study of 5,455 adults found. Black women were the most likely to be obese, with nearly 60 percent classified as such, compared to 47 percent of Hispanic women, 38 percent of white women and 12 percent of Asian women. Among men, obesity rates didn’t vary as much between race: Black, Hispanic and white men all had obesity rates of between 35 percent and 38 percent. The study also found that women with “education beyond high school were significantly less likely to be obese.” Pedestrians walk across the street near Times Square in New York in August 2007. New government data published this week found that four in 10 U.S. women are obese. Lucas Jackson/Reuters In another study published by the CDC on Tuesday that looked at childhood obesity rates, 17 percent of children ages 2 to 19 were found to be obese, and six percent of them are extremely obese. While obesity rates among children have declined in those aged 2 to 5 years old since 2003 and stabilized among 6- to 11-year-olds since 1997, rates have “steadily increased among adolescents since 1988,” according to the study.…