For many years, health experts have been concerned about "food deserts," places where residents lack good nutritional options. Now, an MIT-led study of three major global cities uses a new, granular ...

Animal studies support that theory. GLP-1 drugs reduce inflammation in the brain and interfere with reward pathways linked to ...

The European Association for the Study of Obesity framework may offer a more sensitive measure of obesity than traditional body mass index.

A new federal estimate shows that nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adolescents had prediabetes in 2023, far higher than a previous estimate ...

Background Overweight and obesity are excessive fat accumulations linked with many health problems, including heart diseases, type 2 diabetes and cancer. Multiple studies have demonstrated that ...

The Weight–Heart Failure Connection Heart failure is the organ’s inability to keep up efficiently with the demands placed on it. And it’s becoming more and more common, Ndumele says. “Lots of factors ...

Although ‘lean type 2 diabetes’ is not uncommon, clinicians must first exclude other causes including autoimmune, monogenic, ...

Maternal obesity doesn't just affect the health of a pregnant woman. It can also have effects on her child, increasing their ...

A new study has found that the health of U.S. children has deteriorated since 2007, with notably higher rates of obesity, chronic illness and mental health issues becoming more common at earlier ages ...

The health of children in the U.S. has “significantly worsened” over the past 17 years in a variety of areas, including ...

About 1 in 5 classified as overweight based on BMI alone considered to have obesity according to European society definition.