Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, common wisdom and public health messaging have assumed that people in highly developed nations, like the United ...

Obesity causes insulin resistance by increasing activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the release of the stress hormone norepinephrine, according to a new study. A study from Rutgers Health ...

Obesity is a complex medical condition marked by excessive body fat that increases the risk of serious health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and certain cancers. While ...

Vida Forouhar: “This study looks at how the average person in Canada views not only obesity and people with obesity, but also the views they have about themselves when they are self-directed.” The ...

Hyperphagia in hypothalamic obesity causes constant, uncontrollable hunger because damage to the hypothalamus disrupts brain regions that signal fullness. This happens when tumors, surgery, radiation, ...

The popular new drug can bring dramatic weight loss for some patients. But for NZ, tackling a rising obesity epidemic is ...

Both overweight and obesity can increase the risk of developing coronary artery disease. Maintaining a healthy diet and a moderate weight can help decrease the chance of this and other heart ...

Obesity can lead to diabetes and heart trouble, but does it really raise the risk of a brain stroke?

Obesity is uncommon among Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Tsimane forager-farmers in Bolivia, Tuvan herder-farmers in Siberia, and other people in less-developed nations. But it’s widespread among ...