Excess weight can be detrimental to a person's health. Therefore, it's crucial to reduce your overweight. To do this, try to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle.

Genetic causes of obesity include monogenic, polygenic, and syndromic obesity. You may have a mutation in one or more genes that may cause early-onset obesity or affect hunger cues. Nearly 42% of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, common wisdom and public health messaging have assumed that people in highly developed nations, like the United ...

Experts have come to recognize that viewing obesity as a failure of willpower is not only unhelpful but also medically inaccurate. Today, major health authorities agree that obesity is a complex ...

A new study has turned common conceptions of what causes obesity on its head, revealing that reduced physical activity may not have as large a role in our size as our diets. The study, published this ...

A survey of adults living with obesity and their physicians across seven countries reveals a high disconnect between their perceptions about the causes of obesity and treatment goals. The findings ...

Americans are overweight and out of shape. We all have read or heard the statistics a bajillion times. While the scope of the problem is evident, the causes are not. Conventional thinking, born out of ...

There are few diagnostic terms in medicine more stigmatized than “obesity,” which affects 41.9% of U.S. adults over 20, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But many doctors ...

A significant portion of SC adults face obesity, the most recent data shows. Here are the 10 counties where rates are highest.

Researchers led by Mika Kivimaki and Staffan Nyberg at University College London have linked obesity to roughly one in 10 ...