FINDINGS: Researchers report that for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with a substantially lower in-hospital…

Ever had the munchies even after you just ate? That urge to snack may be due to an overactive chemical “feedback” system that regulates appetite, food intake, fat metabolism, and…

Study looks at similarities between food over consumption and drug dependence

A study by Stephanie Fulton of the Department of Pharmacology has put forth the possibility that food over consumption and drug…

The amount of fatty tissue that young children gain as they grow has little to do with their calcium intake, a new study shows.

There is some…

Obese children, particularly girls, may be more likely than their peers to suffer from low self-esteem, research shows.

In a study of more than 2,800 Australian school children, researchers…

A link between obesity and the microbial communities living in our guts is suggested by new research at Washington University School of Medicine in…

The costs of dealing with a growing obesity epidemic could bankrupt the National Health Service, doctors said on Friday.

Dealing with obese people costs as much as nine percent of a…

Britain’s medicines cost watchdog has for the first time recommended weight-loss surgery for exceptionally obese children.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said operations should be considered…

For patients with type 1 diabetes, obesity is an important risk factor for the development of diabetic kidney disease, reports a study in the January Journal…

Obese women can improve their health without dieting by changing their eating habits and exercising more, researchers said on Monday.

They showed that lifestyle changes including exercise programmes, such as…

Rising levels of obesity in Britain could lead to as many as 12,000 new cases of weight-related cancer each year by the end of the decade, a leading charity warned on Tuesday.

Teenage girls who weigh themselves frequently are more likely to binge eat and participate in unhealthy weight control behaviors in the future, according to new research from…

Physicians who once treated mainly elderly patients for health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke are seeing increasingly younger patients who have the same ailments.

A review…

The first large-scale review of weight-loss surgeries performed on older adults suggests bariatric procedures should generally be limited to people younger than age 65, researchers…

Exercise can reduce snoring among overweight children, even if it doesn’t result in weight loss, a new study shows.

Snoring is associated with poor sleep quality, which can lead to…

Being exposed to high levels of nutrition before birth can influence the development of networks within the brain that regulate appetite to permanently set a pattern of appetite for life, according…

According to a World Bank expert, obesity could damage economic output as severely as malnutrition in the poorest countries.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has…

Despite significant improvements in dialysis treatments, currently over 20% of the 350,000 maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients in the United States die each year. A study published in Hemodialysis International finds that…

As weight-loss surgery for morbid obesity has become more and more common, so too have the plastic surgery procedures many people need afterward, according to researchers.

While obesity surgery…

The risk of complications such as bleeding and infection in patients undergoing an increasingly popular weight-loss surgery, also referred to as “bariatric” surgery, varies drastically based on which hospital performs it, a…

Workers with above-normal body weight have increased rates of short-term disability, reports a study in the November Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College…

Preschoolers with a taste for fruit juice may pack on excess pounds, but only if they already have a tendency toward being overweight, a new study suggests.

Some…

For the 170,000 morbidly obese patients who undergo bariatric surgery each year in the U.S., the stomach-reducing procedure is just the first step back to health and self-esteem.

“Massive post-surgical weight…

Which works best in fighting the risk factors for diabetes - exercise or diet?

It’s a toss up, according to a new study by a Saint Louis…

Older adults living in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods have an increased risk of obesity, a new study has found, possibly due to fear caused by living in areas characterized by crime,…