as well as four digital awareness brochures on its social media platforms, including tips and advice on how to follow a healthy and balanced diet, the importance of physical activity in promoting ...

Over the past decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions, now affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide.

February is National Cancer Prevention Awareness Month, and you might be wondering if there are steps you can take to lower ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future ... Signposting Children to ...

LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Britain's pharmacies regulator on Tuesday tightened rules for online pharmacies' prescribing obesity drugs, ordering them to make changes to prevent people from receiving ...

While the commission advocates for a precision approach to obesity prevention and treatment, they point out that the current interventions have used lost weight rather than remission or clinical ...

In the U.S., about 40% of adults have obesity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are ...

Between August 2021 and August 2023, approximately 40% of U.S. adults had obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Around 9.4% of those adults had severe obesity.

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a ... to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, BMI is an "inexpensive and easy ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity ... from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S. adults ...

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and published on Wednesday. The term overweight has been replaced with ...