Locals on Hawaii’s Big Island first spotted a goat on a cliffside near the town of Hawi three days ago and fear it’s growing weak.

Background Overweight and obesity are excessive fat accumulations linked with many health problems, including heart diseases, type 2 diabetes and cancer. Multiple studies have demonstrated that ...

A recent study finds that much of the cardiovascular disease seen in severely overweight people is driven by more than diabetes and high blood pressure.

In a large California health care system, the contemporary burden of obesity varied substantially across disaggregated Asian ...

Prediabetes is more than twice as common in overweight or obese Asian and Pacific Islander (API) adolescents compared to ...

On the other end of the scale are Washington D.C. and Hawaii. While not a state, the federal district is the nation's leanest territory, with an obesity rate of 24.7 percent. According to home gym ...