The prestigious medical journal "JAMA" recently devoted an entire issue to the topic of obesity — from research on risk factors for childhood obesity to outcomes of[...]

Prevention and wellness across the lifespan: That's the theme for this week's American Public Health Association annual meeting in San Francisco. In a time when the U.S. is[...]

On its surface, the cause of the Western world's obesity epidemic seems simple: People are eating too many calories and getting too little calorie-burning exercise; the imbalan[...]

Drinking sugary beverages interacts with genes that affect weight, amplifying a person's risk of obesity beyond what it would be from heredity alone.[...]

To many savvy food consumers, fructose, which is found largely in high fructose corn syrup, has become an unwelcome ingredient in soft drinks and processed food.[...]

Tiny strands of RNA affect how our cells burn fat and sugar.[...]

A new Norwegian study shows that those who think they're too heavy are the ones most likely to be overweight by early adulthood. [...]

Today, just over a third of U.S. adults are obese. By 2030, 42 percent will be, says a forecast released Monday.[...]

Nearly 10 percent of U.S. teens have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a largely silent accumulation of fat in their liver cells that puts them at risk for developing later cardiov[...]

A recent study by Duke University estimates that 42 percent of Americans will be obese by 2030, up from about 34 percent today. Contrary to other reports, the epidemic is getting w[...]