More than 100 million Americans who qualify as overweight could see themselves tip into the obese category under newly ...

Globally, obesity is a growing public health crisis, affecting millions and leading to premature deaths. India faces a ...

About 1 in 5 classified as overweight based on BMI alone considered to have obesity according to European society definition.

Understanding the link between obesity, fatty liver disease and kidney stones provides a new perspective on prevention and ...

Older women with larger waist circumference may be at a much greater risk of dying for any given BMI, according to ...

A recent survey highlighted a widespread lack of understanding about the much-publicised GLP-1 weight-loss medications ...

For young adults, body fat percentage is a better predictor of 15-year mortality risk than body mass index (BMI).

A recent study discovered that obesity increases the risk of breast cancer in women with existing cardiac disease following ...

The campaign aims to enhance the understanding of obesity as a chronic disease and solutions to help manage the disease among ...

Obesity was significantly more prevalent in Black and Hispanic children and adolescents compared with their non-Hispanic White peers and was potentially exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a study ...

A new study has found that your belly might reveal more about your brain health than your bathroom scales do, especially if ...

Weight loss injections will not be enough to make “lasting progress” in tackling the obesity epidemic, leading medical experts have warned.