Harbaji, W. and Abdulai, A. (2025) Factors Influencing Schoolchildren’s Obesity: A Qualitative Document Analysis of ...

BMI was never meant as the sole measure for a person’s health. When we use BMI with an individual patient, it can often overestimate the risk of their weight on their health. People have a lot of ...

A landmark study predicts 60% of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 without government action.

Humans are living 20 years longer since 1950, but rising death rates among adolescents and global health inequities pose new ...

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The Gates Foundation and the Pan American Health Organization are both working on ways to make weight-loss drugs like Novo ...

We've long known that regular exercise builds muscle, strengthens the heart, and lifts our mood, but a new paper shows the ...

Background Despite global efforts to improve nutrition, young women aged 15–24 years in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) face persistent dual burdens of malnutrition, marked by high ...

Obesity is a major public health and economic challenge in the US, costing the health care system an estimated $173 billion ...

Sadly, it’s probably going to take more than celebrity endorsement to change the way society views people who are overweight. Weight-loss drug stigma is just the latest form of “fatphobia”.

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