Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The prevalence of obesity among adults has slightly decreased in the United States but remains higher than 10 years ago, new ...

The prevalence of obesity and severe obesity markedly increased among adults and children in the US from the 1970s and 1980s until now.

In a recent article published in JAMA Health Forum, researchers assessed trends in obesity and body mass index (BMI) across American adults between 2013 and 2023. Their findings indicate that BMI and ...

In the first multinational study of a proposed change to how obesity is defined—which calls for health factors beyond a person's height and weight to be considered—an international team of researchers ...

Researchers projected that adult obesity rates in the U.S. will rise to 47% in the next decade. Women under age 35 had the largest increase in obesity prevalence from 1990 to 2022. Multifactorial ...

The global obesity crisis tells a story of two worlds. In some corners of the planet, obesity is virtually unknown, where ...

GLP-1 receptor agonist prescriptions increased significantly during study period across all categories of BMI, in dose-response manner. (HealthDay News) — From 2008-2011 to 2020-2023, there was an ...

A coalition of Hispanic health and public policy organizations is pushing for New Mexico’s Medicaid program to broaden its coverage of weight loss drugs as treatment for obesity. The policy change, ...

The prevalence of obesity among adults has slightly decreased in the United States but remains higher than 10 years ago, new federal data shows. Among adults aged 20 and older, about 40.3% were ...