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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided insight into the prevalence of obesity across the United States. The figures, initially from the 2023 Adult ...

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 ...

LONDON - Packaged food and drinks should have easy-to-read nutritional information on the front of the products to help ...

A review of the medical records of thousands of adolescents treated for obesity found that kids who received the GLP-1 medications semaglutide or liraglutide were less likely to have suicidal ...

Health secretary Wes Streeting believes obesity is a factor negatively affecting the UK's economy and has put forward plans ...