Unhealthy options and pressures influence nearly every part of children’s daily lives, according to studies released this week in a special supplement of the American Journal of Preventative…

Here are some general guidelines for losing weight safely:

Talk with your doctor about setting up a weight loss plan.

Eat fewer calories. The best formula for losing weight is to decrease the number…

Counting calories isn’t the best way to lose weight, according to a new Brigham Young University study that suggests that an approach toward food called “intuitive eating” is better at…

While obesity has been shown to contribute to high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes, being overweight in old age does not lead to memory problems, according to…

Obesity is increasingly prevalent, yet the nutritional management remains contentious. It has been suggested that low glycaemic index or load diets may stimulate greater weight…

Finding a way to motivate the billion people in the world who are overweight to lose excess pounds can be an overwhelming task, but a University of Houston professor is…

Risk factors for obesity in 7-year-old European children: the Auckland Birthweight Collaborative Study

A fat mother hastens a child’s path to obesity, finds a study published ahead of print in…

Although the long-term health risks associated with obesity in older adults have been well documented, less is known about the…

Neighborhood property values predict local obesity rates better than education or incomes, according to a study from the University of Washington being published online this week by the journal…

An important new study from the Journal of Consumer Research explains the “American obesity paradox”: the parallel rise in obesity rates and the popularity of healthier food.…

In obese individuals, fat cells are bloated and inflamed because they receive too many nutrients, including lipids. In these cells, various components cannot work properly anymore and, instead, they…

Could explosive concentric muscle contractions be the key to optimizing the capacity for weight loss through resistance training?

According to findings recently published in the journal Medicine and Science in…

Losing weight is hard to do. Anyone who has tried knows it is true. For most of us, the thought of dropping that extra 20 or 30 pounds of padding…

Severely obese patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery significantly reduce their risk of death from coronary heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, according to research published in the Aug. 23,…

An extensive swedish study from the Sahlgrenska Academy has established that surgery reduces premature death in patients with severe obesity. A long-term follow up has shown that mortality is significantly lower…

New research on the effects of the female sex hormone estrogen in the brain lend credence to what many women have suspected about the hormonal changes that accompany aging: Menopause can…

Women who have dementia start losing weight at least 10 years before the disease is diagnosed, according to a study published in the August 21, 2007, issue…

Obese middle-age and older women appear no more likely to report migraine than their non-obese counterparts, a new study suggests.

Some previous studies have suggested that there is a relationship between…

Obesity and aversion to exercise have become hallmarks of modern society – and a new study suggests that a blood protein linked to these lifestyle…

When 14-year-old Jared Sanchez became dangerously overweight, his primary care physician knew he would be a perfect candidate for an investigational weight loss study using the internet.

The…

In the first study of how weight may affect school attendance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University have found that overweight children are…

New Jersey students may soon have one more weight to carry - their own. A new state office is considering adding an assessment of students’ weight to their report cards.

Clearly,…

Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology at Houston have found that a gene in the liver and elsewhere in…

Diet foods and drinks for children may inadvertently lead to overeating and obesity, says a new report from the University of Alberta.

A team of researchers contends that animals…

Rats with a genetic predisposition to burn fat more slowly tend to put on weight more readily than rodents bred to resist becoming obese, a new study shows.

The findings…