"A lot of people think that being fat is a choice," noted Law Professor Doron Dorfman, who said overweight people ...

Overweight patients with risk factors for heart disease should be sent by their doctors for "intensive behavioral counseling" about diet or exercise, according to new recommendations from the United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Overweight and obesity rates in adults, children and teens more than doubled over the past three decades, afflicting 2.1 billion ...

A third of children are predicted to be obese or overweight globally by 2050, according to new research. On March 3, The Lancet published research led by Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) ...

Looking at whether marital status, health literacy, depression and social factors contributed to being overweight or obese, a team led by Alicja Cicha-Mikołajczyk from the National Institute of ...

Research presented at AAAAI 2026 suggests GLP-1 RAs may provide clinical benefits for asthma management in patients with excess body weight.

America is struggling with an obesity problem, as nearly 42% of U.S. adults are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Whether this is due to lack of healthy food items ...

It is estimated that the number of overweight or obese schoolchildren will surpass 3.1 million by 2040.

Turkey has rolled out a nationwide scheme to stop and weigh people in public, with inspectors then telling them to slim down if they are found to be overweight. Health workers have been deployed ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 3 - Some 40% of Italian are overweight and the north.-south gap is decreasing with more northerners becoming overweight or obese, the Higher Health Institute (ISS) said ahead of ...