According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S. adults—some 100 million people—met the clinical definition for obesity. But this same estimate, which is based on National Health ...

From this metric, your physician can diagnose whether you are under or average weight, or whether you have obesity. The thing is: BMI is a metric that was not designed to diagnose someone with a ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related ...

New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided insight into the prevalence of obesity across the United States. The figures, initially from the 2023 Adult ...

Proposals to give weight loss jabs to unemployed people living with obesity could be "very important" for our economy and health, the prime minister has told the BBC. Sir Keir Starmer said he ...

Obesity is, without doubt, a major burden on the health service and wider economy. Obesity-related illness costs the NHS an estimated £11bn a year – about 8% of its spending. Add in lost ...

Experts also warned that the number of fatalities due to obesity may soon, for the first time, exceed those caused by smoking. Being overweight or obese leaves people at high risk of heart disease ...

Fox News anchor Bret Baier is apologizing for playing a misleadingly edited clip in an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris sat down with Baier on Wednesday for a tense interview ...