Paul Ernsberger, an instructor at Case Western Reserve University’s medical school since 1989, says there is no obesity epidemic — a view that flies in the face of nearly all reported research.

The U.S. is big, and getting bigger. Since the 1980s, American adults’ obesity is at epidemic proportions, and there does not seem to be an end in sight. Rates of obesity in those younger ...

Uncover the psychophysiological roots of obesity in India to revolutionize interventions and combat the epidemic effectively.

Experts warn that a child’s trajectory is established early in life and the first 1,000 days – from pregnancy through to a ...

Can We Stop the Obesity Epidemic? HOUSTON -- Even to experts who study the issue, the childhood obesity epidemic is so vast and entrenched that it seems all but insurmountable. But advocates and ...

The same response has not occurred to the obesity epidemic as evident in the NIH spending illustrated below. Source: NIH estimates of funding for various research, condition, ...

The global childhood obesity epidemic has exploded. Over the past four decades, the world has witnessed a tenfold increase in obesity in children and adolescents between 5 and 19 years old.

The obesity epidemic is an epidemic of a long-term chronic disease, but this difference must not be allowed to temper the urgency of our response.

Worse, this obesity epidemic is impacting most groups in the United States. In fact, apart from Asian Americans, all ethnic groups in the United States have an obesity rate that exceeds 36% based ...