NITI Aayog is finalizing an age-based lifecycle nutrition strategy to combat India's obesity crisis, emphasizing reducing ...

Opinion: In this op-ed, the author argues the Army’s outdated body composition policies are quietly eroding the readiness, ...

One recent study found that obesity could drag down the global GDP by more than 3% by 2060. That’s a loss of $4 trillion ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, folks in the United States were told that eating less fat would help prevent heart disease and ...

Water aerobics (WAs) improves body weight and waist circumference for adults with overweight or obesity, according to a ...

We led a study to find out how genes have such a significant influence on why humans (and dogs) become overweight. It was ...

A new study in The Journal of Immunology reveals how a high-fat diet may impair the immune system's ability to respond to infection by impacting the function of neutrophils, one of the first immune ...

Young people are uploading videos of themselves illustrating what they would look like if they were bigger than they actually ...

People with obesity with similar body mass index (BMI) measurements have differences in muscle and fat based on their age groups. This could mean that BMI isn’t the best tool for older adults, new ...

Your body is made of the things you eat, so you should try to consume food items that are good for your liver and avoid foods ...

Doctors and experts gathered late last year in Bonifacio Global City to raise awareness on a “silent epidemic” that is ...

For decades Pai Masendu believed she simply had 'fat legs' that were out of proportion to the rest of her body - but it wasn't only their size that bothered her. They also ached and were prone to ...