Residents in several southern states were found to spend the highest percentage of their income on groceries, according to a ...

Binghamton was once considered the second fattest city in the U.S., with a 37 percent obesity rate. The study surveyed more than 350,000 people around the country. Currently, no studies show the ...

Between August 2021 and August 2023, approximately 40% of U.S. adults had obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Around 9.4% of those adults had severe obesity.

Obesity has traditionally been considered a risk factor for various diseases. However, it is increasingly recognized as a disease by medical societies and governments. The 2020 Canadian Adult ...

“In this project, when we analyzed the data, it very clearly pointed us to obesity-related genes and pathways that varied between VAT and SAT.” Malak Alradi, a third-year doctoral student studying ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future ... Signposting Children to ...

A new AP-NORC poll reveals that while most Americans support weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy for adults with obesity, they are divided on their use for teens. About half of adults favor ...

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised ... of cohort studies with adults from the US, Denmark, France, and Korea (n, 14000, suffering ...

NEW YORK – One of the world’s largest studies of Ozempic, Mounjaro and other blockbuster diabetes and obesity drugs highlighted their impact on the brain, pointing to benefits over conditions ...

Seeking recalibration on how obesity is measured worldwide a global commission on this issue, in its recent report published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, has said that Body Mass Index ...

A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is not the most accurate way to define obesity. BMI is only a measure of a person’s weight and height and does not account for muscle mass.