Not necessarily — but it’s complicated. For years, body size was considered a barrier to most sports, but today that’s ...

The obesity diagnosis has always been controversial. Now, a new clinical definition is raising even more questions.

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

We all know that being overweight is bad for your health. Carrying excess fat is a risk factor for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, a range of cancers and an increased chance of an early death. The ...

His research showed that ciprofloxacin, for example, is not broken down more quickly in people with obesity, meaning the standard dosage is safe. Why obesity affects drug effectiveness in ...

Two recent documents—one from the FDA, the other from a commission organized by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology—indicate ...

A new screening intervention in the primary care setting can improve the identification and management of obesity risk in pediatric patients, according to a poster presented at the National ...

On World Obesity Day, THE WEEK speaks to Dr Nanda Rajaneesh, General and Laproscopic Surgeon, Apollo Spectra Hospital, ...

Nearly 40% of consumers classified as overweight or obese under traditional body mass index (BMI) definitions would no longer carry that diagnosis under newly proposed criteria recently published ...

Overweight and obesity rates in adults, children and teens more than doubled over the past three decades, afflicting 2.1 billion adults and 493 million young people with excess weight, researchers ...