June 19, 2025 -- Obesity is far more complex than willpower. In this episode, we spoke with Robert F. Kushner, MD, renowned weight management expert, to explore how the medical community’s ...

Obesity should be treated as a disease that requires long-term management rather than a condition to be cured, according to health ...

Is obesity among the most misunderstood, misclassified, and mistreated diseases? Over the past 30 years, researchers have not only identified a key hormone (leptin) that helps regulate appetite and ...

When you arrive at a doctor’s appointment, you likely get your height and weight measured — two numbers used to calculate your body mass index (BMI). From this metric, your physician can diagnose ...

Modern medicine now offers safe, effective tools to treat obesity—from life-saving bariatric surgery to powerful new medications. Yet most people with obesity can’t access these treatments because ...

When the issue is obesity, the questions are many, and the routes to answers anything but straight. What is abundantly clear ...

Obesity isn't just a health issue anymore—it's a global crisis. By 2035, 1.5 billion adults worldwide are projected to have obesity. Chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes are skyrocketing ...

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As patients consider drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound and Mounjaro to treat obesity, experts say the choices are not so simple. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata has reported on many facets of the new ...

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S., but the proportion of those with severe obesity — especially women — has climbed since a decade ago, according to new government research. The U.S.

Obesity is uncommon among Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Tsimane forager-farmers in Bolivia, Tuvan herder-farmers in Siberia, and other people in less-developed nations. But it’s widespread among ...