American researchers found that after bariatric surgery self-esteem scores rose to 77.5 from 33.6 – a more than 40-point ...

GPs in England will be allowed to prescribe the weight loss jab Mounjaro to severely obese people who suffer from a range of ...

Eli Lilly said on Saturday its experimental pill orforglipron helped diabetics lose weight and lower their blood sugar, and ...

A study published Monday in the Lancet predicts that about 60% of adults and nearly a third of young people worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050. Halfpoint - stock.adobe.com In case you ...

GPs will be allowed to prescribe weight loss jabs for the first time from Monday. The mass rollout will see around 220,000 ...

In this most recent study, researchers at England’s Anglia Ruskin University analyzed data from 8,297 obese people via the UK Biobank. The American Heart Association warns that 61% of American ...

Obesity has often been described as a "gateway disease" leading to other conditions — and one of those is COVID-19, according to a new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical ...

Mary is not alone. Although people with more body fat are at increased risk of health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some cancers, studies have repeatedly identified a ...

A number of situations have led to changes in use of “obesity” in medicine. While it was currently defined by a BMI of over 30 Kg/m2 for people of European descent, more country-specific BMI ...

This term came about because it was considered absurd that fat people could actually be healthy." But the numbers don't lie. Fat people can be healthy and, in some cases, healthier than those who ...