There are surely people out there who meet the “fat but fit” label. But it’s unclear whether people who are overweight or who have obesity can avoid all weight-related health problems by focusing ...

While discussions about excess weight often focus on physical health risks like heart disease and diabetes, the psychological impact can be equally devastating. The relationship between weight and ...

In a new living clinical guideline issued by the American College of Physicians and published online June 16 in the Annals of ...

ACP has published living clinical guidance to help physicians select medications for patients with overweight or obesity.

Share on Pinterest A study in people with overweight and obesity found that misaligned circadian rhythms are linked to raised metabolic risk factors. skaman306/Getty Images A study in overweight ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who carry excess pounds may be doing permanent damage to their feet, a group of foot and ankle surgeons warns. "When there is an increased amount of weight and stress ...

Gene therapy could help obese kids avoid health problems associated with excess weight, including arthritis, a new, preliminary study in mice suggests. The gene therapy prompts cells to convert ...

UP to 25 per cent more adults could be classed as obese under a radical shake-up of the body-mass-index (BMI) system, experts have suggested. Under current rules, a BMI score of 18.5 to 25 is healthy, ...

India is witnessing a worrying rise in lifestyle-related diseases, with new data showing a sharp increase in cases of ...

Since the 1990s, the proportion of the world’s population who are overweight (with a body mass index of 25–30) or obese (with a body mass index of 30 or above) has doubled. If current patterns ...