Obesity

It’s almost Thanksgiving— you can practically hear the collective unbuckling of belts across the nation.

When it comes to calorie count in your restaurant meals, ignorance is often bliss.

Researchers just discovered a simple way to fight obesity, heart disease, and mental illness – by giving people puppies.

A 15-year-old girl who weighs 380lbs due to a rare condition, called Prader-Willi Syndrome, has been crowned a pageant queen.

Obese people have shorter lives and even those who are just overweight spend more years living with heart disease than individuals who are a healthy weight, a U.S. study suggests.

Researchers were able to freeze a nerve in the back that carries hunger signals to the brain, lowering patients' appetite and promoting weight loss.

Cornell University researchers found that packing on pounds seems to dull people's sense of taste.

While obesity is associated with an increased risk for heart attacks, a new study suggests that hip and waist size may play a bigger role, particularly for women.

Adults who were pressured by their parents to diet during adolescence may have a higher risk of obesity and eating disorders as adults than people who weren't urged to lose weight as teens, a U.S. study suggests.

An obese high school student makes a turnaround after attempting suicide, and decides to have weight-loss surgery and loses 157 pounds.