Learn why staying fit, not just slim, can boost your health and protect against serious diseases better than just watching your weight.

Nearly 40% of consumers classified as overweight or obese under traditional body mass index (BMI) definitions would no longer carry that diagnosis under newly proposed criteria recently published ...

More than half of adults and a third of children and teens worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050, a comprehensive ...

Contrary to popular belief, health is not determined by the number on the scale. It's determined by a multitude of biological ...

Republicans trying to find billions of Medicaid dollars to pay for tax cuts now say that any reduction in Medicaid spending ...

Obesity rates tripled from 2% to nearly 7% among young people, researchers found. Globally, the predicted surge in obesity ...

Greater body mass index from early adulthood to midlife is associated with better midlife cognition, particularly among US men and Black adults.

Over half of adults and a third of kids and teens around the world will have overweight or obesity by 2050, according to two ...