In a clinical trial, participants taking semaglutide lost 15 percent of their body weight, on average.

New research from the University of Sheffield has found being overweight is an additional burden on brain health and it may exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease.

Joggers who jiggle should stop fooling themselves: the idea that you can be chubby but healthy is false, a study suggests. The debate has raged for years: is it better to be a stout sportsperson who regularly exercises, or can you expect fewer health problems if you are sedentary but skinny?

As China grows richer, the waistlines of adults in the country are also expanding. More than half of Chinese adults are now considered overweight, a study conducted by the country's National Health Commission revealed on Wednesday. Obesity rates among Chinese adults have also more than doubled in less than two decades, from 7.1% in 2002 to 16.4% this year.

With 56,000 dead of covid-19, Mexico states ban the sale of junk food to minors as a way to reduce risk factors like obesity

A new Canadian clinical guideline aims to reduce stigma against overweight patients.

The British are far fatter than any other nation in Europe bar the Maltese so there needs to be a debate about how to tackle soaring rates of obesity which cost the country dearly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. Johnson, who said at the start of the year that he needed to lose weight, was hospitalised in April with coronavirus and treated in intensive care with oxygen. He later said doctors in the National Health Service (NHS) had saved his life.

Obesity may be one of the most important predictors of severe coronavirus illness, new studies say. It’s an alarming finding for the United States, which has one of the highest obesity rates in the world. Though people with obesity frequently have other medical problems, the new studies point to the condition in and of itself as the most significant risk factor, after only older age, for being hospitalized with Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Young adults with obesity appear to be at particular risk, studies show.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine are producing a fat busting protein normally maed in the liver in a laboratory. Their hope is that this protein will help advance of understanding of triglycerides. That knowledge may someday help in the development of a better treatment for heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

For men, being overweight is linked to increased odds of sexual activity. But the opposite is true for women, according to new research published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine. The study examined the relationships between body weight, physical activity, and sexual behavior.

About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 is severely so, government researchers said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention findings come from a 2017-18 health survey that measures height and weight. More than 5,000 U.S. adults took part.

Just in time for the New Year, a new Cal Poly study shows that if you want to lose weight and keep it off, building healthy dietary, self-monitoring and psychological coping strategies may be the keys to success.

Labelling food and drinks with how much walking or running is needed to burn them off could help tackle the obesity crisis, researchers say. While all packaged food must display certain nutritional information, such as calorie content, there is limited evidence that the approach changes what people buy or eat. Meanwhile, waistlines continue to expand.

More and more Americans are trying to lose weight, but few are finding success, according to a new study showing that increases in weight and weight gain are matching increases in adherence to weight loss regimens.

Nutrition researcher Kevin Hall strives to project a Zen-like state of equanimity. In his often contentious field, he says he is more bemused than frustrated by the tendency of other scientists to “cling to pet theories despite overwhelming evidence that they are mistaken.” Some of these experts, he tells me with a sly smile, “have a fascinating ability to rationalize away studies that don’t support their views.”

Researchers in South Korea the gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 to inhibit the gene FABP4 in white adipose tissue. When they tried it in mice, the animals lost 20% of their body weight and showed reductions in inflammation and insulin resistance.

An impressive new study from scientists at the University of Utah has described how an impaired immune system can alter the composition of the gut microbiome resulting in metabolic disease and obesity. Demonstrated in mouse experiments, the research suggests certain species of gut bacteria can prevent the gut from absorbing fat, pointing to exciting potential future anti-obesity therapies.

People who are obese from childhood through to middle age are more than twice as likely to have difficulty with daily tasks such as lifting, climbing stairs and carrying shopping by the time they are 50, a new UCL study has found. 

The UK’s obesity crisis is set to trigger a massive rise in weight related cancers with 360,000 people expected to be diagnosed with the disease by 2030, the head of the NHS in England has said. Drastic action is needed now if the UK, already the most obese nation in western Europe, is to avoid a weight-related crisis on the scale as is being experienced in the US, Simon Stevens, said.

The percentage of energy from fat in diets has been thought to be an important determinant of body fat, and several mechanisms have been proposed. Comparisons of diets and the prevalence of obesity between affluent and poor countries have been used to support this relationship, but these contrasts are seriously confounded by differences in physical activity and food availability.