The treatment and prevention of childhood obesity is not only important for the present generation – to maintain a long life in good quality, but what is even more important, for the health of the ...

The 31-year-old’s death shocked the world when it was reported on Thursday that he had fallen off a third-floor balcony at a hotel in Argentina. He died from haemorrhaging. This was just moments ...

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 ...

Observational follow-up studies reveal that childhood obesity is associated with a 5.8-fold higher risk of obesity in adulthood compared to normal body weight in childhood [1]. Fifty-five per cent of ...

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 ...

List of countries by obesity rate: Overweight and obesity, resulting from excessive fat accumulation, have become significant health concerns today, with global adult obesity having more than doubled ...

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 ...

Obesity is a multifactorial, chronic, relapsing, non-communicable disease marked by an abnormal and/or excessive accumulation of body fat that presents a risk to health. It is well established that ...

Obesity is a complex, multifactorial disease, defined as abnormal or excessive accumulation of fat that poses a health risk. 1 It has been recognised as a major public health concern and a significant ...

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 ...