America gets supersized as obesity rates spike in both children and adults - Rising obesity rates have been tied to a more ...

A 31-year-old government employee from Uttar Pradesh, who weighed 254 kg, has undergone a successful weight loss surgery at AIIMS Delhi. The surgery took place on May 30, and he was discharged after ...

Johns Hopkins University-led research has found that obesity, particularly severe obesity, is strongly associated with the incidence of 16 common health outcomes. Associations remained consistent ...

It's no secret that childhood obesity is a problem in the US. Over 2 million American kids are considered "super obese." As a dietitian I have seen and counseled several severely obese children and ...

Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks to slip through the cracks? Medical experts have typically calculated obesity using body ...