What some people view as easy, others might be struggling with. This is the case with sleep. For most of us, it just takes putting our head on the pillow and drifting off. However, there are people ...

Is obesity among the most misunderstood, misclassified, and mistreated diseases? Over the past 30 years, researchers have not only identified a key hormone (leptin) that helps regulate appetite ...

The pleasure we get from eating junk food—the dopamine rush from crunching down on salty, greasy French fries and a luscious ...

A new USC Schaeffer Center white paper finds expanded access to anti-obesity medications would lead to significant increases ...

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A new study reveals that long-term high-fat diets reduce pleasure from eating by lowering neurotensin, a brain peptide that ...

March 28 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO), opens new tab is licensing Lexicon Pharmaceuticals' (LXRX.O), opens new tab experimental obesity drug in a deal worth up to $1 billion, the Danish ...

A study finds that factors beyond a person's control, like socioeconomic status and whether their mom smoked or was obese, can influence whether they are overweight or obese as teenagers or adults.

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"These findings from a modern nationwide longitudinal cohort study suggest that obesity is a dominant feature of many health ...

A version of this essay first appeared in Jess Steier’s newsletter, “Unbiased Science.” Well, it happened. My colleagues and I tried to dodge it, but we finally got DOGE’d. On Tuesday, the ...

UC Berkeley researchers found that chronic high-fat diets reduce neurotensin, a brain peptide that enhances dopamine-driven food pleasure. This loss of enjoyment in eating may contribute to obesity.