Fat tissue secretes hormones known as adipokines. Patients with obesity have a larger amount of leptin than a normal ...

Obesity significantly raises women’s risk of several cancers, including breast, endometrial and ovarian types. With obesity ...

Women with higher levels of body fat sometimes struggle to conceive and can face greater health risks during pregnancy.

The urgent directive follows alarming findings by Lancet, the British medical journal, that projected a surge in overweight ...

The National Center for Health Statistics measured adults and children to see weight, height and other size trends ...

Even though obesity in women is common, it's harder for women to lose weight. In fact, many studies show that men lose more weight than women from dieting, as well as from dieting plus exercise.

Experts warn that a child’s trajectory is established early in life and the first 1,000 days – from pregnancy through to a ...

As Wegovy ushers in a new wave of weight-loss drugs to tackle India's growing obesity crisis, Dr. Rishma Pai sheds light on ...

Earlier, it was thought that obese people have stronger bones due to more body weight. But, doctors say that according to ...

Childhood obesity has risen to “alarming” levels, academics have said as they called for action to prevent unhealthy lifestyles setting in among babies and toddlers. At such a critical moment in US ...