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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.

With the exception of colon cancer, most cancers associated with overweight or obesity rose over the past decade.

For overweight patients, barriers to care range from too-small equipment to docs who believe health issues just require they lose weight.

Once I was able to get past the whole psychological part of losing weight, dropping pounds was easy.

Visualizing the way you’d like to look can help you shed weight.

Since obesity is associated with high levels of inflammation, the condition may increase a person?s overall sensitivity to salt.

The drug found in OTC emergency contraceptive pills begins losing its effectiveness if a woman weighs 165 pounds or more.

More than half of all American dogs are overweight, warns the Association for Pet Obesity and Prevention.

Diabetes, heart disease, hypertension: Why do so many kids suffer from middle-age illnesses?

Think family-style meals don’t have a place in today’s high-speed culture? Wrong. Families who gather around a table at mealtimes often reap d...

Based on all the teasing, bullying and parental nagging that overweight kids must endure, it may come as no surprise to hear that obese childr...

OK, while it’s true some people are ’big boned’ and have naturally larger, sturdier frames, and some folks are predisposed to pack on pounds b...