Obesity leaves a lasting imprint on fat and immune cells in ways that might make weight regain harder to avoid ...

Viewers of The Biggest Loser would probably agree that watching the weight-loss show fills them with inspiration. Seeing the obese contestants struggle should motivate us to eat better, exercise and ...

Overweight patients with risk factors for heart disease should be sent by their doctors for "intensive behavioral counseling" about diet or exercise, according to new recommendations from the United ...

The Curb Your Enthusiasm star, 68, opened up in a new interview with CBS News Sunday Morning about what he used as a coping mechanism while growing up as a "fat" kid "Still a fat kid even to this day.

I was among friends the other night, listening to a doctor go off about how health care in this country costs so much because Americans are fat. If she had to see one more obese mother feed her ...

While childhood trauma on its own can often predict disordered eating and a poor relationship with food in adults, according to a 2022 study, growing up as an overweight kid is its own kind of trauma ...

In a world where food is abundant for most, we rarely consider what might happen if it all vanished. But what if it did? Could carrying a few extra pounds actually help you survive in a world without ...

Turkey has rolled out a nationwide scheme to stop and weigh people in public, with inspectors then telling them to slim down if they are found to be overweight. Health workers have been deployed ...

The 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' actor said he learned to "laugh at myself" as a coping mechanism while growing up Arturo Holmes/WireImage Richard Kind is getting candid about body image and how he learned ...