Over the next decade, obesity rates across the nation could surge to close to half of U.S. adults, a new study published in the medical journal JAMA estimates.

A Yale study found that lowering parent stress can help protect young children from obesity. When parents practiced ...

In recent years, rates of childhood obesity have been rising, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimating in 2024 that approximately one in five children and adolescents met the clinical ...

Black Americans are nearly twice as likely as their white counterparts to develop dementia and also face some of the highest obesity rates in the nation — troubling numbers as St. Louis researchers ...

The Obesity Society, Obesity Medicine Association, and the Obesity Action Coalition have published joint guidance incorporating patient input.