A Université de Montréal research team is developing a pill composed of leptin, the protein that tells our brain to stop eating. “Mice deprived of leptin will not stop eating.…

Saying childhood obesity has tripled in the last 30 years, first lady Michelle Obama asked the nation’s mayors to help her battle an epidemic that could see today’s kids lead shorter lives than…

Obesity is a condition that often follows family lines, but bariatric surgery offers hope for breaking this generational pattern.

“Bariatric surgery is part of a transformational lifestyle change,” said Christopher Still,…

When your New Year’s resolution to lose weight crumbles as fast as the cookie touching your lips, it’s time to admit that diets don’t work. More successful…

Confused by the myriad of diet books that promise to help you melt away those excess pounds to produce the body of a supermodel?

Scientists at the Mayo Clinic…

Obese patients who lost a moderate amount of weight by eating less and exercising more improved their cardiovascular health, says a study at Washington University School of Medicine…

Fasting every other day can help obese people lose weight, a small study hints.

Even though the study participants ate whatever they wanted on their non-fasting days, they lost an…

Americans continue to get heavier. Most weight control methods short of bariatric surgery are generally considered ineffective in preventing obesity or reducing weight. The term energy gap…

Decreased physical activity may have little to do with the recent spike in obesity rates among U.S. adolescents, according to researchers at…

A study conducted by exercise physiologists in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Human Studies finds that as little as 80 minutes…

If you’ve lost a lot of weight and want to keep it off, banishing high-fat foods and getting rid of your TV sets might help, along with eating…

Enrolling in a weight loss program with a family member or friend appears to enhance weight loss among African Americans, but only if the involved…

Obese adults may shed more weight with the diabetes drug liraglutide than with the weight-loss drug orlistat (Xenical, Alli), suggests a study in The Lancet this week.

The finding that…

Moderate Weight Loss Helps Reduce Risk of Osteoarthritis in the Knee, Maintaining Weight Provides No Benefit

Here’s another good reason to lose even a moderate…

Garlic has been, for long, known for its health benefits such as prevention of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes etc. Now, researchers say that garlic may help in weight loss. Garlic contains the…

With the rising popularity of bariatric surgery (BS), there is an increasing need for patients and their doctors to recognize and prevent the potential complications from this weight…

Weight loss surgery can help you lose weight, but it’s also likely to leave you unable to absorb iron, a new study suggests: Iron deficiency is a common problem after…

Being too optimistic could harm weight loss efforts. Research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal, BioPsychoSocial Medicine, reveals the psychological characteristics that may contribute to weight loss.

Hitomi Saito from Doshisha…

Losing weight may preserve kidney function in obese people with kidney disease, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology…

A difference in brain activity patterns may explain why some people are able to maintain a significant weight loss while others regain the weight, according…

Cardiologist Philip Ades, M.D., not only counsels his cardiac rehabilitation patients to eat healthier food, he shows them how. The author of the “EatingWell for…

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 66 percent of all U.S. adults are overweight or obese. Faced with conditions of heart disease, high blood pressure…

Packing on the pounds may be an unintended consequence of the U.S. Food Stamp Program, according to research that shows that getting food stamps may help contribute to obesity, at…

Meal replacements in a medically supervised weight loss program are successful in facilitating weight loss, according to a new study conducted at the University of Kentucky. The study appears in the August…

Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking…