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 ...

Around two-fifths of U.S. adults in recent years lived with obesity, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Separate data from the agency shows 37 states in 2023 ...

Experts offer a variety of policy solutions to the childhood obesity crisis. Many are drawn from the anti-tobacco playbook — ...

Is it even possible to change lifestyles and the food environment enough to solve America’s obesity problem ... They point to a history of attempts to teach people to change their diet and ...

"About 40% of the adult population in America has obesity, when it's defined solely by BMI," Kushner says. But do all of ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Obesity is a BMI at or above 30, while severe obesity is at or above 40. The American Medical Association last year said BMI is an imprecise measure of body fat, since it doesn’t consider ...

By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis ... formerly known as America’s Health Insurance Plans, said “it’s too early at this ...