Get a load of this — you may be obese after all! About 40% of US adults — more than 100 million Americans — are considered ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help ...

Discover how smoking during pregnancy may increase childhood obesity risk, according to new research from Washington State ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” said Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University ...

To help stem the epidemic of obesity in the United States, a government advisory group yesterday urged for the first time that doctors weigh and measure all adults and recommend intensive ...

To make the new forecasts, researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington created a model to determine overweight and obesity trends using historic ...

Obesity Threatens a Generation 'Catastrophe' of Earlier Deaths, Higher Health Costs. May 17, 2008. By Susan Levine ...

Washington University School of Medicine said Monday it's receiving $14 million to test a family based program that aims to curb childhood obesity. The Business Journals.

Last fall George Washington University released a report [PDF] that put a figure to the staggering individual costs of being obese in America. Dr. Avi Dor, report author and professor and director ...