Childhood obesity, defined by the WHO as excess body weight, has doubled globally and significantly increased in India. This ...

Obesity has become one of the most pressing health challenges of our time. More than one billion people in the world are now ...

CLEVELAND -- We don’t need to look hard to realize that we are facing an epidemic of obesity in the United States. The evidence is all around us. In my lifetime, the share of people who suffer from ...

"Approximately 40 percent of the American population is considered overweight or obese," said Eyleen O'Rourke, associate ...

There are more than 123 million people in the U.S. living with obesity, and this prevalence is largely due to a lack of access to care, environmental factors, stigma and inadequate coverage, according ...

Thomas W. Spoehr, a retired Army lieutenant general, is director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation. Isaac Tang is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage ...

Many factors drive America’s obesity epidemic — environment, genetics, eating habits, and more. Solving the problem isn’t solely about getting people to lose weight. What’s also needed is overcoming ...

The Food and Drug Administration's approval of a Wegovy pill, the first ever oral GLP-1 medication on Dec. 22, underscores an increasing demand for weight loss drugs across the U.S.

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