The results of a large urban multiethnic study show that high fat and high sodium diets are both risk factors for stroke, investigators with the Northern Manhattan Study…

New research findings pinpoint the specific component of rice bran responsible for its heart-healthy effects. Two small studies show that it is the oil, and not the fiber,…

Now that the holiday cookies are history, you’ve resolved to get fit and trim. Perhaps you’ve even considered taking over-the-counter dietary supplements to help you reach your weight-loss goals.

Drugstores, nutrition shops…

Life expectancy in the United States is set to drop within the next 50 years due to obesity, one of the world’s top experts on the subject said on Wednesday.

Obesity - especially abdominal obesity - is associated with a poor outlook for patients with established cardiovascular disease, results of a recent study indicate.

Increasing a mother’s intake of folic acid by adding the vitamin to food supplies has been shown to cut the risk of having a baby with neural tube defects, a…

Shunning food every other day may be a feasible way to slash calories - if you and those around you don’t mind the crankiness that comes with it,…

A gene that encodes a protein called lipin seems to promote obesity in mice, even when food intake remains stable, according to researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“Our findings…

For a while in the mid-1990s, overweight Americans seemed to be going crazy over fen-phen.

Fen-phen, actually a combination of the drugs fenfluramine and phentermine, exploded…

I was recently talking to a reader of this site, and he was commenting on some of the pictures (body shots) that he’d…

The children of overweight mothers are 15 times more likely to be obese by age 6 than children of lean mothers, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

The children start…

Men and women who tip the scale at more than 220 pounds are significantly more likely to develop kidney stones than people who weigh less than 150 pounds, according to…

Europe’s food and drink industry will soon sit down with consumers, health workers and EU regulators to agree ways to tackle a rising trend of obesity, particularly in children,…

Six months after spraining an ankle, overweight and obese children are more likely than their peers to still have pain, swelling or weakness, new study findings indicate.

“In our…

The number of U.S. consumers on low-carbohydrate diets rose sharply in the first two weeks of 2005, but many Americans are likely to give up the diets as…

Although obesity is usually linked to detrimental health consequences, new research indicates that overweight people with heart failure have a lower mortality risk than those of normal weight.

This…

Obese patients typically show poor sensitivity to the hormone insulin, a problem that can lead to diabetes. Previous reports have shown that weight loss surgery can improve this sensitivity and now,…

Kraft Foods Inc. on Wednesday said it would stop advertising products like Oreo cookies and Kool-Aid beverages to children younger than 12 as part of plan to address…

Losing weight is a frequent New Year’s resolution but for many people it involves more than pledging to skip snacks to drop an unwanted 15 pounds.

Nearly one-third…