Obesity and dietitian societies have joined forces to issue a new consensus statement on recommendations surrounding use of ...

Obesity rates among U.S. adults and children rose sharply in recent years, and by 2023, 40% of adults and 20% of youth met ...

Having a high bodyweight is not an issue until it starts to hinder everyday activities. Obesity requires treatment, but ...

Credit: Getty Images. Sandra Christensen, MSN, ARNP, FNP-BC, MFOMA, FAANP, discusses managing obesity through medication. There is an overwhelming demand for medications to manage obesity, although ...

I N THE SPACE of less than a decade, medicine acquired a means of doing what millennia of diets and exhortation could not. A ...

A Lancet Commission has redefined obesity by classifying it as either “clinical obesity,” a disease, or “preclinical,” a health risk factor, with the distinction based on factors beyond body mass ...

AROUND 170,000 people could die from heart problems linked to obesity by 2035, a charity has warned. If current trends in ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the use of GLP-1 medications as part of treatment programs to help people manage obesity. In a new guideline published in JAMA, WHO officials said ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued its first-ever recommendation endorsing GLP-1 medications as part of a long term strategy to manage obesity in adults. Earlier, in the guidance to deal with ...

The increasing prevalence of obesity across the past decades represents one of the most pressing issues in public health, ...

Pixabay Obesity numbers tend to get thrown around a lot in news stories, usually as a single global average that hides just ...

When teens are still fighting to lose weight and are considering bariatric surgery it is important to understand how your doctor will make the decision to recommend surgery or not. The major ethical ...