Still, when we think of the stereotypical picture of health, we probably imagine someone who is "in shape." However, a new ...

Obesity in the United States has continued to rise for decades even in the face of increased awareness and access to healthy ...

Your friends and family will likely applaud your substantial weight loss — but your cells may resist change. New research ...

Long-lasting changes to the cells’ epigenome are linked to a decline in their function. Even after drastic weight loss, the ...

Changes to the structure of DNA within fat cells may be why it is often so hard to keep weight off after you have lost it ...

In the new study, scientists found that cells from human and mouse fat tissue show gene activity changes that are retained ...

The team used fat cells from people with obesity and people at a healthy weight to see if there were differences in their genes that could be controlling their weight gain. They found people who ...

Over the past three decades, there has been a startling increase in the prevalence of obesity across the U.S., at least ...

Editor’s note: Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Is Ozempic Right For You?” at 8 p.m. Sunday, November 17, on CNN. In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States ...

Without aggressive intervention, they forecast, the number of overweight and obese people will continue to go up — reaching nearly 260 million people in 2050. “I would consider it an epidemic ...