The recent report highlighting Cyprus as one of the worst-performing countries in Europe for childhood obesity should serve as a wake-up call, not just for policymakers, but for families, educators ...

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The authors of a recent Lancet report argue that obesity should not just be seen as a risk factor for other diseases — but in some cases, should be seen as a disease itself. The position could change ...

Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks to slip ...

Obesity rates in children have been on the rise for decades, having quadrupled from 1990 to 2022, and along with the rise in obesity, comes a rise in health risks. However, obesity can be broken down ...

Thanks to GLP-1 medicines, losing weight is the easy part. The harder part for many may be convincing their brain that their ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And as we said, it’s streaming live now — or no, it’s streaming now on Apple TV. We turn next to a health crisis in the United States. A new Biden ...

Over 26% of U.S. adults with a normal BMI met new criteria for clinical obesity proposed by the Lancet commission. About 78% of adults had excess adiposity if defined by using two or three abnormal ...

A new Biden proposal for coverage of obesity drugs by Medicare and Medicaid coincides with a report finding that 75% of American adults are overweight or obese. The numbers have been trending upward ...