A new study finds that three quarters of American adults and half of adolescents are too heavy. That's making more of us sick and creating enormous health care costs.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Having obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization ... Moreover, given that American journalists aren’t required to be fit like members of the military, there’s no reason to think ...

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 ...

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

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether someone has obesity, alongside other major changes.

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