A new study finds that three quarters of American adults and half of adolescents are too heavy. That's making more of us sick and creating enormous health care costs.

Jan. 27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

Teen obesity increases stroke risk in women, highlighting the need for early intervention and weight management.

The younger age between 15 to 24 years had the highest prevalence of underweight and lowest prevalence of overweight and obesity while it was the opposite for those in the age group of 40 to 54 years.

Being severely overweight not only affects the person, but also the people around them A woman has been struggling to live a ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a ... normal weight, overweight or obese, although it is not a direct measure of body fat.

That, in turn, has been associated with an increase in sick days and medical releases as well as reduced readiness and ...

The author of a new guidebook on GLP-1s and other experts share their tips for how clinicians can optimize patient success ...

This means that exclusively surgical treatment cannot be applied without interdisciplinary evaluation. Along the same lines, ...

USA: A study published in PLOS ONE suggests that nutritional ketosis, with or without exogenous ketones, may have a positive ...