Two cell proteins that relax the gut and help accommodate a big meal have been identified by UCL (University College London) scientists. The proteins could offer a future drug target…

New York City will issue 1,000 new permits for mobile fruit and vegetable stands in its latest drive against obesity and unhealthiness among its residents.

The City Council…

Overweight Hispanic children with normal blood glucose (sugar) levels showed elevated markers for blood vessel inflammation that may predispose them to developing both type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease,…

Middle-aged women’s waists aren’t the only thing that increased in the last decade.  So did their chance of stroke.  In a new study reported at the American Stroke Association’s…

Add this to the growing list of health challenges faced by obese children: A new study from the University of Michigan Health System finds that obese children are much…

Many parents of children classified as overweight or even extremely overweight do not perceive their child as being excessively heavy, with some wrongly believing that their child is “about…

According to Rena Wing, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and director of the Weight Control & Diabetes Research Center…

Being obese or even overweight may increase a person’s risk of developing up to a dozen different types of cancer, European researchers report in a new study.

Doctors have long suspected…

Although adults who lose weight may also lose some bone mass, obese adolescents seem to keep gaining bone density as they shed pounds, a study suggests.

The findings, reported…

Want to lose weight? It might help to pour that diet soda down the drain. Researchers have laboratory evidence that the widespread use of no-calorie sweeteners may actually make it harder…

Diet and lifestyle play a far smaller role than genetic factors in determining whether a child becomes overweight, according to a British study of twins published on Thursday.

Researchers looking…

Obesity rates in the United States have steadily increased in the past decade. As the body mass index (BMI) of patients rises, unique challenges face the urologist. The…

A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers — but please, don’t be offended.

He says he never even…

The Question:

Why are there are so many good weight loss programs out there, but so few people actually lose weight?

The Answer:

All too often the problem isn’t with the diet,…

Gaining weight following a diagnosis of invasive breast cancer could increase a woman’s risk of death from the disease by more than half, according to researchers leading…

Shedding excess pounds may restore some of the heart’s youth, whether the weight loss comes from eating less or exercising more, the results of a small study suggests.

Researchers…

Obese or overweight Chinese individuals 65 and older have a lower risk of developing tuberculosis than those at a normal weight, according to a study in the June…

A discovery by Queen’s biologists and their students sheds new light on the genetic roots of obesity – a condition that is increasing dramatically in North America and has been linked…

Preliminary research indicates that obese patients with type 2 diabetes who had gastric banding surgery lost more weight and had a higher likelihood of…

To evaluate survival rates and changes in weight-related comorbid conditions after bariatric surgery in a high-risk patient population as compared with a similar cohort of morbidly obese patients who…

Obesity, one of the 10 leading U.S. health indicators, is associated with increased risk for hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and certain cancers.…

Risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease is affected by a number of medical and lifestyle factors. In recent years, increasing attention has been focused…

Context 
The prevalence of overweight in children and adolescents and obesity in adults in the United States has increased over several decades.

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