According to a doctor, when a person suffers from metabolically healthy obesity, most of the fat accumulates in the hips and ...

Comprehensive study exposes critical health risks of obesity, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, while offering ...

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

The person may have, however, an increased risk of developing clinical obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some types of cancer, the researchers noted. Clinical obesity is defined as "a ...

The commission said it did not know the prevalence of the two types of obesity. The simplest way for doctors to see whether someone has excess body fat is to wrap a tape measure around a person ...

Obesity and type 2 diabetes are closely linked. Excess body fat can alter your body’s metabolic system, promote insulin resistance, and trigger inflammatory responses that affect how well your ...

Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, not all obese people ...

They are less likely to have type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol They also have a lower risk of ...

A positive response to treatment for pediatric obesity has enduring health benefits into young adulthood, according to a study.

Achieving obesity remission reduced children’s and teens’ risk for developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia ...