The study shows rates for smoking, obesity and chronic conditions such as heart disease are comparatively higher in rural ...

Most of the commercials airing during this year's Super Bowl are going for laughs, with advertisers betting that America ...

The old men and women in Stacy Torres’s new book, At Home in the Big City: Growing Old in Urban America, (UC Press; $29.95), ...

We wrote a detailed report that included the effects obesity can have on our national debt ... our GDP over a decade that ...

The team at Waste Removal USA surveyed 3,000 travelers to find out which towns across America have the most pristine streets. Waste Removal USA had this to say: This survey aimed to highlight those ...

The mental mindset can be the most challenging – so like the other episodes of Heavyweight, I hope hearing other people’s stories will inspire people to make positive change. “Obesity isn ...

As a fifteen-year regional travel specialist and Country Living’s resident small town enthusiast, it’s precisely those out-of-the-way places—you know, the ones where you have to get in a car, after ...

According to a new study, nobody has more obese people than the South. How was this list created? The folks at 24/7 looked at county data from the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps report, which was ...

The result for now is that Novo Nordisk is no longer the most valuable company in Europe, and anti-obesity specialists have entered bear market territory. Sachin Jain from Bank of America points ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...

The Global Obesity Observatory’s latest data for Singapore shows that among adults, 13.1 per cent of men and 10.2 per cent of women are obese. Obesity has been on the rise in the city-state ...