A new study finds that three quarters of American adults and half of adolescents are too heavy. That's making more of us sick and creating enormous health care costs.

Childhood obesity continues to be a growing problem in out country. So, should the government regulate food advertising like it did with cigarettes?

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, is an umbrella term describing conditions related to a ...

Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) is a clinically-proven approach to treating children with obesity in which a health ...

Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) is a clinically-proven approach to treating children with obesity in which a health care professional works with the family to help children lose weight by ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., with advances in treatment unable to offset rising rates of other chronic health issues.

Obesity at childhood cancer diagnosis was independently associated with inferior survival, and this was likely driven by trends detected in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia or central ...

The % DV on labels shows how much one serving contributes to your daily needs for calories or nutrients. According to UNICEF, ...

Achieving obesity remission reduced children’s and teens’ risk for developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia ...

Adderall shortages have prompted doctors to switch kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder to other forms of ...

According to a new study, self-guided family therapy for obesity could work just as well as traditional approaches at a fraction of the cost.

While the metabolic benefits of physical exercise are well known, it is less clear whether exercise can prevent cardiac damage in diet-induced obesity. Here, the authors show that while exercise ...