Patients may not know that two key components of obesity care are exercise and sleep. They go together, said Sara Velayati, ...

Obesity, or being overweight in simple terms, is a medical entity in itself. There are many medical conditions linked to obesity ranging from cardiovascular diseases to cancers. Modern lifestyles have ...

Some people love to work out. For others, getting regular exercise just feels like a chore. When you’re living with obesity (a BMI of 30 or more), there can be added challenges that make exercising ...

Older adults who don’t get enough exercise and have trouble sleeping tend to be obese, according to a new study. Adding more activity could ease the negative impacts on sleeping on obesity. Despite ...

The increasing trends of blood pressure (BP) in children and adolescents pose great concern for the burden of hypertension-related cardiovascular disease. Although primary hypertension in childhood is ...

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(WISH) — More than 3 of every 5 adults in the U.S. are obese. Eyleen O’Rourke, an associate professor of biology and cell biology at the University of Virginia, said, “Approximately 40% of the ...

A major new study finds that people around the world burn roughly the same amount of calories each day, regardless of how active they are. As NPR's Maria Godoy reports, that strongly suggests that ...

It's common knowledge that obesity is a global epidemic, particularly in industrialized countries, and that it is a major cause of disease and poor overall health. However, there has been a tug-of-war ...

Obesity, or being overweight in simple terms, is a medical entity in itself. There are many medical conditions linked to obesity ranging from cardiovascular diseases to cancers. Modern lifestyles have ...

While diet and exercise have long been known as the two main pillars of health, it turns out diet may be doing more of the heavy lifting than previously suspected. New research shows that the ...