US obesity rates exceed 42%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy target brain pathways that regulate appetite. Dr. Alyce ...

Common risk factors for type 2 diabetes include obesity, family history and age. “Aging is one of the biggest risk factors for most of the chronic diseases,” said Hariom Yadav, Ph.D., a ...

A team of researchers have made a groundbreaking development related to a protein that is naturally produced in the body but ...

Why some health groups are banding together to push for a range of obesity-care options in workplace-sponsored insurance.

Australians tend to eat too much junk food and not enough fruit and vegetables. But how might these trends change in the ...

Certain foods and habits can impact your chances of getting cancer in your lifetime. Here, we share the latest research as ...

Half of respondents reported a physician diagnosis of a diet-related health condition, most commonly high blood pressure (28.6 percent), high blood cholesterol (22.9 percent), obesity (19.3 percent), ...

Mar. 3, 2025 — Obesity rates are set to skyrocket, with one in six children and adolescents worldwide forecast to be obese by 2050, according to a new study. But with significant increases ...

Human GWAS paradoxically linked FTO SNPs to both lean mass and sarcopenia/obesity. Here, Guang et al used CRISPR-edited stem cells to reveal that an obesogenic FTO SNP accelerates both muscle ...

The International Journal of Obesity is a multi-disciplinary forum for research describing basic, clinical and applied studies in biochemistry, physiology, genetics and nutrition, molecular ...

Nearly 3 million Americans live sicker, shorter lives in the hundreds of rural counties where doctor shortages are the worst ...