For at least the last half century, obesity has been one the rise around the world, contributing to what many officials consider a public health crisis. While there remains some controversy about how ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Nearly three quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to a new study. The findings have wide-reaching implications for the nation's health and medical ...

Obesity is spreading in the United States, as 75% of of adults and almost half of people aged 15-24 are overweight.

BMI is the measure of body fat of body fat based on weight and height. The number of people with severe obesity, which is a BMI of 40 or higher, has increased significantly. According to one study in ...

Importantly, BMI is likely not an ideal measure of body fat mass in young adults due to the presence of increased muscle mass. Moreover, most young adults in the current study had normal BMI values.

In The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Yair Zloof and colleagues1 show that obesity in otherwise healthy adolescents was ...

In an international trial of 713 adults in nine countries including the U.S. called SUMMIT, participants with heart failure with ...

Of 200 countries studied by experts by the World Health Organization, in the period between 1990 and 2022 - the most recent ...

Research shows that 1 in 8 adults in the US has used one of the popular GLP-1 medications, most of them trying to manage ...

Research by Jennifer Shinall, a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School, found that a weight gain of just 13 pounds in women cost them a $9,000 hit in their annual salary.

Obesity, a condition defined by having excessive body fat, is usually diagnosed when a person’s body mass index (BMI) is 30 ...