A recent study has revealed that the number of deaths from heart disease linked to obesity has nearly tripled between 1999 ...

BHB-Phe, a newly discovered compound, reduces appetite and body weight by activating specific brain neurons. Researchers from ...

Obesity is spreading in the United States, as 75% of of adults and almost half of people aged 15-24 are overweight.

In The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Yair Zloof and colleagues1 show that obesity in otherwise healthy adolescents was ...

Massachusetts, which has lower rates than other states, has still seen increases especially among young adults.

Nearly three-fourths of U.S. adults are overweight or have obesity, with rates projected to increase further by 2050 without significant interventions, according to a large study published Nov. 14 in ...

Four out of five men and women in the United States will be overweight or obese by 2050 if current trends hold, a new study ...

A new study published in The Lancet predicts a dramatic rise in obesity rates in the United States by 2050. The study ...

In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, ...

For at least the last half century, obesity has been one the rise around the world, contributing to what many officials consider a public health crisis. While there remains some controversy about how ...