A new Swedish study reveals that maintaining a healthy BMI throughout childhood is crucial for optimal lung development.

Four out of five men and women in the United States will be overweight or obese by 2050 if current trends hold, a new study ...

In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, ...

The study authors were particularly alarmed by the steep rise in obesity among children, more than 1 in 3 of whom are now ...

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to a sweeping new study. The findings have ...

Researchers said the analysis lays bare a ‘decades-long-failure’ to tackle the overweight and obesity epidemic ...

Over the past three decades, there has been a startling increase in the prevalence of obesity across the U.S., at least ...

Obesity in the United States has continued to rise for decades even in the face of increased awareness and access to healthy ...