New study finds that obesity reduces a specific brain chemical, lowering the desire to consume high-calorie foods. Boosting ...

Obesity was tied with an increased risk of developing 16 health outcomes, a large longitudinal study showed. Risks correlated ...

A study finds that factors beyond a person's control, like socioeconomic status and whether their mom smoked or was obese, ...

The researchers called for further study to understand the mechanism of the relationship between obesity and ICI outcomes.

High adherence to the Mediterranean diet appeared linked to a slight reduction in risk for obesity-related cancer, according ...

HealthDay News — Lifetime excess weight and adult weight gain are associated with an increased risk for renal cell carcinoma (RCC), according to a study published online March 24 in Cancer.

While research suggests having a higher weight may increase your risk for certain conditions, people can be healthy at every ...

The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center has received a $263,813 Women's Health Supplement award from the National Institutes of Health to explore how obesity-induced changes in tissue ...

New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for ...

Risk factors are things that change our likelihood of developing a disease. Factors that may increase our risk of developing vascular dementia include age, genetics, lifestyle, and other health ...

A risk factor is something that influences our chances developing a disease. There are a mix of risk factors for Alzheimer’s, some that we cannot control like our age and genetics, and some that we ...