This form of exercise is found to be especially beneficial for women and middle-aged and older adults, particularly those ...

A Polish health survey found that being married increased risk of overweight in women and men, with the latter group also experiencing three times the risk of obesity.

New research set to be presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025) suggests that marriage significantly ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

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

Without urgent policy reform and action, over half the world's adult population (3.8 billion) and a third of all children and ...

A major international study has found children and adolescents in Australia have experienced some of the fastest transitions ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight as a waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

Getting married triples the risk of obesity for men, according to new research. Tying the knot doesn't raise the risk of ...

The unprecedented global epidemic of overweight and obesity is a profound tragedy and a monumental societal failure,” said ...

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 ...

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