As obesity has become a silent epidemic in India, fiscal policies must be introduced to make healthy food options affordable ...

Fortunes are being blown on injectable hopes of a slimmer future but a simpler and cheaper alternative could actually be in ...

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.

A study in the Lancet has found that 60 per cent of adults and a third of children and teens will be living with overweight ...

One in three children will be overweight worldwide with one in six clinically obese by 2050, warns new research. Obesity ...

Obesity is on the rise not just in humans but in dogs, whose history of selective breeding makes them an ideal species for ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified a bunch of genes linked to obesity in dogs – and ... one of the authors of a paper published in Science. That means if your Labrador's ...

Taking action on obesity is a critical step in reducing the burden of other chronic non-communicable diseases, hence the call for a raise in the SSB tax – a pro-health levy – to N130 per litre and the ...

Obesity is on the rise not just in humans but in dogs, whose history of selective breeding makes them an ideal species for ...

A 2023 research paper in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia that analysed the NFHS-5 data, found the prevalence of abdominal obesity (assessed through waist circumference) in the country ...

In a new paper published on March 6 in online publication Science, researchers at the University of Cambridge identified a gene strongly linked to obesity in pet pooches – and found it is also ...

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 ...