Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

Form Health, the leading provider of science-based obesity care in the United States, announced a new program to prevent ...

“These findings suggest that BMI and obesity prevalence in the U.S. decreased in 2023 for the first time in more than a decade,” the authors write. “The most notable decrease was in the South, which ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people ...

The FDA has designed five different types of labels, each presenting the same information but with different specifications based on the size of the packaging.

Over her three-decade career, weight management physician Dr. Sarah Ro has seen hundreds of patients. Many of them are on ...

After large drops during the pandemic, life expectancy in the United States should recover to 2019 levels this year ...

For the first time in over a decade, obesity rates have dropped in the United States. A recent study by the CDC showed that ...

Brace yourself for a food fight in Congress as President-elect Trump presents his health nominees and lays out plans to combat America’s plummeting life expectancy. New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory ...

Obesity prevalence in the United States declined for the first time in a decade, according to a research letter published in ...