The prevalence of metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, chronic kidney disease, and obstructive sleep ...

Dr. Fisher highlights the grim reality: “When you look at so many of the chronic diseases, be it prostate cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, obesity, Black people are disproportionately ...

For decades, doctors have used two numbers to determine whether a person has obesity: their weight divided by their height. The calculation, known as body mass index (BMI), has the benefit of ...

Peter Dazeley Getty Images Obesity or being overweight is a common ... is twice as high for women as for men, and higher for Black people than for White people. If a person has body mass index ...

"From a public policy perspective, intuitively, you think that if you open healthy grocery stores, that will improve people's diet quality and then reduce obesity." That is unfortunately not the case.

The staggering rise in global obesity among young people has raised alarms with rates for those aged 5 to 24 tripling between 1990 and 2021—a 244 percent increase to 174 million. The surge ...