New research continues to show that many people meet the criteria for obesity and associated health problems, even if their ...

Losing weight can be a lot of work, which makes it all the more frustrating when, little by little, the weight creeps back.

The proposed new definition of obesity incorporates body mass index (BMI) with other measurements like waist circumference.

Even after drastic weight loss, the body’s fat cells carry the ‘memory’ of obesity, research 1 shows — a finding that might help to explain why it can be hard to stay trim after a weight-loss ...

A new study has created the first single-cell map of how DNA is regulated and organized inside different cell-types of human fat tissue. The research shows that many genetic risk factors for abdominal ...