Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have found that persistent organic pollutants (POPs)—synthetic toxic ...

By 2050, over half of the adults and one third of the youth may be obese. Experts have called for urgent action to prevent ...

My son has been overweight his whole life. He is now obese and is asking if he could take the medicine he sees on TV ...

Teens With a Reduced Response to Rewards Are ... Oct. 30, 2024 — Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss ...

USC researchers have found that persistent organic pollutants (POPs)—synthetic toxic chemicals often found in food sources and stored in body fat — are associated with long term higher blood pressure ...

Think sugary cereals, frozen pizzas, chips, soda and ice cream tied to high rates of obesity and other disease. Not all ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. turned away a very large milkshake while talking about the obesity ...

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A recent study predicts that by 2050, more than half of the world’s adults (3.8 billion people) and one-third of all children ...

Scientists say obesity rates are set to skyrocket with "significant" increases predicted within the next five years.

Hale and the other researchers' early findings come from 117 teens for which they had school data, just one slice of a pool ...