With increasing urbanisation, changing dietary habits, and rising stress levels, India must adopt a holistic approach to prevent and manage obesity.

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Novo Nordisk on Monday revealed weaker-than-expected data from a second late-stage trial of its obesity drug candidate ...

We all know that being overweight is bad for your health. Carrying excess fat is a risk factor for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, a range of cancers and an increased chance of an early death. The ...

An early-life responsive parenting intervention resulted in lower body mass index from age 3 to 9 compared with a control intervention. This group difference was driven by effects on female ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass led to greater weight loss than sleeve gastrectomy in patients with obesity at 10 years, according ...

LONDON — Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a "monumental societal failure" to tackle the problem, with more than half of adults and ...

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A Cell Metabolism study finds that while high-GI meals spike insulin and glucose, they don’t increase hunger or consistently ...

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Nearly 40% of consumers classified as overweight or obese under traditional body mass index (BMI) definitions would no longer carry that diagnosis under newly proposed criteria recently published ...