Being overweight as a child, teenager and young adult has been linked to a higher risk of bowel cancer in adulthood, researchers suggest. A higher birth weight was also associated with an increased ...

Higher rates of death among younger Australians from cardiovascular disease has been linked to being overweight or obese, a ...

Weight is an eternally-pressing topic, but conversations around GLP-1s and other weight loss drugs have brought it to the forefront even more. Body mass index (BMI) is the tool doctors use to ...

Overweight and obesity are two different health conditions involving weighing more than what you and your provider determined is right for you. Obesity is a more severe form of excess body fat and is ...

It’s relatively common knowledge that body weight is associated with the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, but the recently revealed link between weight and diabetes-related mortality has many ...

Being overweight has long been linked to heart conditions and type 2 diabetes, but even people who look thinner could be at risk, researchers suggest. The findings, published in Communications ...

A new study has concluded that being too thin can be more deadly than being overweight or mildly obese—and with researchers concluding it is possible to be 'fat but fit'. The scientists followed ...

In study, nearly half of 3- to 6-year-olds worried about being fat. June 20, 2011 — -- When was the last time you saw an overweight woman on the cover of a magazine? Tough question, right? Thin ...

New research presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Annual Meeting 2025 suggests that people who are underweight or at the lower end of a “healthy” body mass index (BMI) face ...