A new study finds that three quarters of American adults and half of adolescents are too heavy. That's making more of us sick ...

Under the proposal, if West Virginia can reduce its obesity rate to under 25% (the rate in Colorado and Hawaii, our leanest ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can help to rebuild the systems that promote unhealthy lifestyles in America. He deserves our support.

In its current form, SNAP operates as a de facto subsidy program that props up some of the unhealthiest parts of the food ...

Russell Wooten of Hendersonville, North Carolina, has spent much of his life struggling with obesity, often carrying ... diseases — and the short-term costs. Separately, 13 state Medicaid ...

We wrote a detailed report that included the effects obesity can have on our national debt and how we can make America healthier and reduce health care costs. We spent months analyzing the ...