Can you hula, dance, or box your way to a better body? Kids are exergaming all over the world. Can you hula, dance, or box your way to a better body? Kids are exergaming all over the world. These are ...

When schools reopened after Covid, Stephanie couldn’t bear the thought of returning. She applied for a waiver that would permit her to attend classes virtually, she said. “I was ashamed of what I look ...

Building Capacity for Obesity Prevention (BCOP) is a collaborative study between researchers at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) and public health and community ...

We’ve been following Breakthrough Women in Science and Medicine, a new documentary series that airs on PBS and spotlights stand-out women scientists, and we’ve learned a lot along the way. While the ...

Ms. Belluz is a health journalist based in Paris. She is co-writing a book about nutrition and health. “Obesity is a disease,” Oprah Winfrey declared after disclosing her weight loss with an ...

The obesity grading system involves dividing obesity into three main groups. It uses your body mass index (BMI), which is a ratio of weight to height, to categorize your level of obesity. Doctors ...

More than 40% of adults in the United States live with obesity, and the percentage of people living with obesity continues to increase dramatically. While experts have learned a great deal about the ...