The findings highlight "monumental societal failures" in the fight against obesity, said population health researcher Jessica ...

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much worse it could get. A team of researchers found that in 2021, one billion men ...

A child dribbles a basketball at a recreation center in D.C. on June 21. (Allison Robbert/The Washington Post) The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key ...

Obesity in America is on the rise, with 35% of U.S. adults considered obese. And while too much excess weight can be harmful to anyone’s health, it poses even greater risks for women with lupus. If ...

New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided insight into the prevalence of obesity ...

More than half of adults and a third of children and teens worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050, a comprehensive ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for an anti-obesity drive seeks to address one of the challenges that the country faces — growing incidence of lifestyle diseases among Indians. The country ...

Nadler, who also ran the Childhood Obesity Program at Children's National Hospital in Washington DC, also argues that the intergenerational transmission of obesity is a bigger risk to children and ...