Nearly all U.S. adults with obesity as diagnosed by BMI also have an elevated waist circumference or excess body fat, ...

Among the 2,225 adults in the study, all under 60 years of age, 39.7% had obesity as defined only by higher BMI, while 39.1% had confirmed excess adiposity when using diagnostic criteria recently laid ...

In their own words, Healthiest Employers Extra Large category winner State of Arizona shares its employees' success on ...

A new study led by Professor Sayaka Nakamura from Sophia University in Japan and Professor Shiko Maruyama from Jinan ...

A UK advisory committee concluded that non-sugar sweeteners may help adults lose a small amount of weight in the short term and can be used for that purpose.

Sticking to an exercise routine is a challenge many people face. But a University of Mississippi research team is using ...

Adherence to ACS nutrition and activity guidelines is associated with a lower risk of death among nonsmoking survivors of obesity-related cancers, researchers found.

Surgical interventions can also be used to manage obesity among children. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y ...

Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a leader in obesity research and treatment, recently played a pivotal role in ...