West Virginia fares the worst in 'US News & World Report' ranking

The CDC is forced to make BMI charts more inclusive for severely overweight children.

Scientists are exploring how chemicals found in packaging and other everyday products boost production of fatty tissues.

Despite reports that rates of childhood obesity are decreasing, kids seem to be packing on pounds at younger ages.

How overweight and obese is your state? Here's WalletHub's list of the 2022's Most Overweight & Obese States in America.

The obesity epidemic isn't slowing down anytime soon, and new research delivers even worse news: Most American adults have not only gained more weight, but they gained most of it earlier in life.

MrBeast is living up to his name as he shares his year-long fitness journey.

Fertility clinics bar women with obesity from their services despite the lack of medical evidence for doing so

These states are in the center of the U.S. obesity epidemic.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The global obesity epidemic is getting worse, especially among children, with rates of obesity rising over the past decade and shifting to earlier ages. In the US, roughly 40% of today's high school students were overweight by the time they started high school. G...

Children with obesity had more than double the risk of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis than slimmer kids

Lac-Phe, an altered form of an amino acid produced by mice and humans after exercise, can help obese mice lose weight by suppressing their appetite

The United States, the biggest buyer of weight loss drugs, didn't crack the top 10

Scientists publishing in Nature Metabolism have shown that obese people have dampened brain responses to food. This effect lingers even after diet-induced weight loss, possibly explaining why it is easy to regain weight.Getting and staying lean is ha...

Being aerobically fit cancels early death risk from excess weight, researchers say

When men shed extra pounds and keep them off, the health benefits may extend all the way to their sperm count, a new study finds.

Clinical trial affirms a better initial strategy

"This relationship is explained by an overactive stress response and adoption of unhealthy lifestyle habits."

Researchers say there is an urgent need to change how the condition is tackled as it rises worldwide.