Major heart health risk factors like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure remain on the rise in the United States, ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

A Super Bowl ad for weight loss medications from telehealth company Hims & Hers is optimized to engage and infuriate ...

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

Hims & Hers, a tele-health start-up, aims to stand apart from dozens of Super Bowl commercials hawking snacks with a spot ...

Eli Lilly's Ozempic-rivaling weight-loss pill orforglipron could be available in early 2026. Its retatrutide may be as ...

China is aiming to beef up physical education in schools, making it core to the curriculum rather than a secondary subject, ...

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

Helping kids with obesity drop pounds can have a huge impact on their future health.When these children and teens los ...

Over-availability of food: Since cats do not need to hunt to eat when they are confined to the house, they sometimes eat just ...