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The disease has similar prevalence across high-income and low- and middle-income nations.

In the search for solutions to her uterine fibroids symptoms, New Jerseyan Lorraine Abudeye has learned to question what care providers say.

New guidelines recommend focusing on healthy foods but don’t restrict added sugars or alcohol as much as some experts had hoped.

Lowering body mass index from obese to overweight cuts individuals’ risk of death by more than half later in life.

A study in obese mice suggests weight loss could slow cancer growth.

Compared with Black Americans and Afro-Caribbeans, African immigrants have lower rates of high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.

Gender and weight loss

Nonetheless, half of people with NAFLD were able to reach a 5% weight loss goal using a very low energy diet.

Two studies suggest that bariatric surgery may prevent obesity-related cancers, including breast cancer.

A new study on obesity-related cancers says we may have underestimated the risk.

We developed a fitness app specifically for people in the African-American community to have all they need to achieve health and fitness.

When individuals—especially women—combined short walking breaks with morning exercise, they reduced their blood pressure levels.

A woman’s height and weight may determine whether she reaches age 90.

Maintaining a healthy weight could have prevented asthma in almost 1 million children, say new findings.

Being obese was linked to a fourfold increase in pancreatic cancer risk.