Here are some other factors in the rise of obesity: Sedentary jobs, food stamp use and urban sprawl were also found to have contributed to American obesity. So did demographic factors like a ...

Obesity is estimated to affect more than 1 billion people worldwide. In the U.S., about 40% of adults have obesity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

With so many factors contributing to childhood obesity, including poverty ... Just looking at the chart above, three of the listed American school lunch meals would feel right at home on the ...

The body mass index is not going away, a new report suggests, but it could be demoted to just a first step in making a more nuanced diagnosis of obesity ... such as the American Medical ...

Amid the rising buzz around Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs, a group of 58 researchers is challenging the way obesity is defined and diagnosed, arguing that current methods fail to capture ...

including the American Heart Association in the U.S., the Royal College of Physicians in the UK, and the World Obesity Federation. There are still important big questions left to be answered about ...