obesity

Health insurers and employers must now pay to screen children for obesity and provide them with counseling. Experts say creating such programs will be a challenge.

Obesity is a relatively modern epidemic which demands different approaches and there are many companies which have realised that profits can be gained by catering for overweight people.

(University of Michigan) New research from the University of Michigan suggests obesity can be seen as one of the unintended side effects of free market policies.

Federal health officials have issued warnings to eight surgical centers and an advertising firm in California for misleading advertisements promoting the Lap-Band, a stomach-restricting device used to treat obesity.

(University of Montreal) Researchers can predict which children are most likely to become obese by examining their mothers' behavior around their birth, according to a recent University of Montreal study published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.

Louisville’s efforts to combat obesity are instructive at a time when federal dollars are becoming more scarce and budgets are pinched.

Did Coca Cola and Pepsi use corporate responsibility as a shield to buy off Save the Children to stop the group from advocating a soda tax that would fight obesity in the U.S.?

Scientists for the Food and Drug Administration said Friday a pill to treat obesity from Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. helped patients lose weight, though it didn't meet all the criteria set forth by the agency.

As public health priorities shift, anti-tobacco programs are losing out to the campaign against obesity.

The creators of the "Got Milk?" campaign are getting ready to make a big push to keep chocolate milk on kids' minds and on school lunch menus, a plan that has some educators and obesity activists none too pleased.