According to the Oxford English dictionary obesity is “the condition in which excess fat has accumulated in the body, mostly in the subcutaneous tissues.” The Centers for Disease Control and ...

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National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month: A statement by Shellie Y. Pfohl, M.S., Executive Director of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition and ...

In this interview with The American Journal of Managed Care®, Katie Queen, MD, addresses the complexity of obesity as a medical condition, pivoting to virtual care while ensuring that patients who ...

Editor's Note: The March issue of Health Affairs is a thematic issue focusing on the child obesity epidemic and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Two days after the issue and an ...

According to the Obesity Action Coalition, North Carolina's obesity rate has increased 80 percent in the last 15 years. On Friday, a team of national leaders, local experts, state lawmakers and even ...

A new guideline from WHO conditionally recommends the use of GLP-1s to treat obesity as well as including the drugs as part ...

The year 2026 will introduce groundbreaking anti-obesity medications with surgery-like results.

A LocalCircles survey reveals that nearly half of packaged foods on India's quick-commerce apps are ultra-processed or junk, ...