According to a September 2024 data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S.

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

Where you store fat, as opposed to how much you have, may be a bigger risk factor for colon cancer, a study published in JAMA ...

Obesity at cancer diagnosis appeared linked to significantly poorer survival among children and adolescents, according to ...

Childhood obesity is on the rise and is becoming an epidemic in our country and worldwide. The consequences of childhood ...

Treating the growing problem of childhood obesity calls for exploring new approaches and treatments through well-designed ...

Bon Secours and Prisma Health are implementing new visitor restrictions as cases of influenza and respiratory illnesses rise ...

Pediatric patients considered obese at cancer diagnosis are linked to significantly worse survival outcomes, especially those ...

Belly fat — both the visible kind and the deep kind that sits around your organs — is caused by a combination of factors.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines obesity as a person who has a BMI of 30 or more. As of March 2020, nearly 42% of U.S. adults had obesity, according to the CDC. Athletes and ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

Body mass index (BMI) is one of the most ubiquitous yet controversial metrics in medicine. A crude measure of weight relative to height, BMI is commonly used to diagnose obesity—even though many ...