Republicans trying to find billions of Medicaid dollars to pay for tax cuts now say that any reduction in Medicaid spending ...

Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless ...

Global rise of large food chains linked to obesity epidemic; unhealthy food sales spike dramatically over last decade.

If observed trends over the past 30 years continue, the total number of adults ages 25 and older living with overweight (body ...

Pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of the disease, has been linked to obesity and higher stress levels, a new UCLA study found. Doctors share how to reduce the risk.

Obesity prevalence increased among both adults and children across all regions of the world from 1990 to 2021, and more than ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The prevalence of obesity and diabetes has grown worldwide, presenting notable challenges to public health ...

Obesity is an increasing global health problem, a complex medical condition of a person’s body having excess fat. It is something beyond physical looks. Health complications that result from ...

While poor diet and sedentary lifestyles are clearly drivers of the obesity epidemic, “there remains doubt” about the underlying causes for this, said Thorkild Sorensen, a researcher at the ...

A suite of government interventions and strategies are needed to reduce the population-level drivers of obesity, health experts say. As obesity rates are set to soar globally, half of children and ...