New obesity standards focus on belly fat and body composition, affecting men and Asian individuals most dramatically ...

Former FDA Chief Warns GRAS ‘Loophole’ Lets 99% of New Food Chemicals Skip Review As 70% of Americans Battle Obesity ...

Close up on a woman's torso showing her jeans' gap in size after weight loss. GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound have quickly become tools for helping people with obesity and ...

A Yale study found that lowering parent stress can help protect young children from obesity. When parents practiced ...

In recent years, rates of childhood obesity have been rising, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimating in 2024 ...

An international research group has examined how many people are affected by preclinical and clinical obesity and what health risks are associated with this. The team led by Prof. Matthias Schulze ...

In every single state, researchers expect at least 35% of adults to have a body mass index of 30 or higher, the threshold that defines obesity. That prediction may come as a shock, as weight loss ...

Being overweight doesn’t just make people more susceptible to chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes—it might also increase their risk of severe influenza and other infections, a new ...

Revised Obesity Definition Reveals Hidden Cardiac Risk Clinical obesity occurs more frequently in certain sociodemographic groups and is linked to increased risks for stroke, heart failure, and heart ...

Adult obesity in the United States has gone up over the past 30 years and more increases are expected in the next decade, according to a new study. In the study, published Tuesday, Jan. 28, in JAMA, ...

Experts have come to recognize that viewing obesity as a failure of willpower is not only unhelpful but also medically inaccurate. Today, major health authorities agree that obesity is a complex ...

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound have quickly become tools for helping people with obesity and diabetes lose weight and lower blood sugar. But emerging research suggests these ...