America’s obesity rate looks to be plateauing—again.

Since 2021, the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) has led a national public awareness campaign against weight bias with a goal ...

There is no perfect definition of healthy or unhealthy food. There is no perfect system of regulation. But I believe that ...

Sep. 20, 2024 — A new type of blood test using lipids could make it easier to identify children at risk of complications around obesity including type two diabetes, liver and heart disease ...

Severe obesity throughout the U.S. continues to rise, a new study from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows. On Tuesday, the U.S. CDC published a report on the prevalence ...

About 40% of hormone-positive breast cancers in postmenopausal women might be linked to excess body fat, researchers reported ...

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S., but the proportion of those with severe obesity — especially women — has climbed since a decade ago, according to new government research. The U ...

Obesity and severe obesity prevalence among adults aged 20 and older in the U.S. ABC News Photo Illustration Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist and chief innovation officer at Boston Children ...

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S., but the proportion of those with severe obesity — especially women — has climbed since a decade ago, according to new government research.

Expanding access to new, highly effective weight-loss medications could prevent more than 40,000 deaths a year in the United States, according to a new study led by researchers at Yale School of ...