Mar. 3, 2025 — Obesity rates are set to skyrocket, with one in six children and adolescents worldwide forecast to be obese by 2050, according to a new study. But with significant increases ...
Experts found the risks of being overweight increase for both sexes when married, but appear to be particularly acute for men ...
One in three children will be overweight worldwide with one in six clinically obese by 2050, warns new research. Obesity ...
Global rise of large food chains linked to obesity epidemic; unhealthy food sales spike dramatically over last decade.
Local health experts are reconsidering their approach to obesity as new research criticises doctors' reliance on the body mass index. The paper, published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet ...
Most obese patients grow resistant to satiety signals from the hormone leptin. A new study shows that leptin sensitivity can be restored in mice, leading to weight loss.
Human GWAS paradoxically linked FTO SNPs to both lean mass and sarcopenia/obesity. Here, Guang et al used CRISPR-edited stem cells to reveal that an obesogenic FTO SNP accelerates both muscle ...
Overweight and obesity rates in adults, children and teens more than doubled over the past three decades, afflicting 2.1 billion adults and 493 million young people with excess weight, researchers ...
Kids are more likely to maintain a healthy weight if their parents adopt a responsive style while they’re babies a ...
Researchers studying British Labrador retrievers have identified multiple genes associated with canine obesity and shown that these genes are also associated with obesity in humans. The dog gene ...
Obesity surgery (also known as bariatric and ... to medical tourism in the context of obesity surgery. Their consensus paper is published in the International Journal of Surgery, and its authors ...