A new study finds that three quarters of American adults and half of adolescents are too heavy. That's making more of us sick ...

The percentage of U.S. adults with obesity did not significantly rise from 2013 to 2023, though a small uptick in the rate of obesity was seen for children and adolescents, according to data published ...

Obesity has been ... participants for 30 years; all of the participants were between the ages of seven and 15 in 1985, and the team tracked their health outcomes through 2019.

More than 30,000 lives are being lost each year ... worsening obesity crisis, he said the problem was affecting children as young as 13. "Obesity levels are rising at an alarming rate," said ...

Opens in a new tab or window After patients with obesity ... in discussion rates mirrors the increased safety of metabolic and bariatric surgery procedures over the past 20 years," the researchers ...

The relationship between obesity and cancer risk has become increasingly clear through research. Multiple types of cancer show higher prevalence rates among individuals with obesity, including ...

A decades-long study of Danish conscripts finds that despite the rise in obesity, the inverse relationship between intelligence and BMI has remained unchanged.

"Instead, the condition must be understood through the lens of metabolic dysfunction." Obesity isn’t just a disease of excess weight, Osborn said, but a "systemic metabolic disorder requiring ...

Discontinuation of GLP-1 receptor agonists in obesity is common, driven by weight regain and socioeconomic factors, impacting ...

A Pew Research Center survey from late February last year found that 70 percent of Americans do not think that weight loss drugs will have a big impact on the country’s obesity rate. The obesity ...