A new Canadian guideline urges lifestyle interventions for obese children but also says today's new drugs might help kids ...

GLP-1s like Ozempic, as well as weight-loss surgery, are among the recommendations to treat childhood obesity in the first guideline update in Canada in almost 20 years.

The new approach recommends focusing on quality of life and mental health — and even includes medications like GLP-1s, which ...

A new study linked a very low-calorie ketogenic diet to reversed biological aging in people with obesity.

In bustling Mumbai, childhood obesity is quietly snowballing into full-blown health crisis; government survey flagged that 8 ...

Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the ...

In an effort to reduce obesity and other health conditions among children ... rather than individual ingredients. Like adults ...

In some cases, such as when someone with obesity is preparing for weight loss surgery, a doctor may supervise a very low calorie diet. On such a diet, you might eat as little as 800 calories a day ...

BMI can be evaluated as part of a self-test for obesity screening by accessing the CDC's online tool for measuring BMI for adults, or the online tool for measuring BMI for children and teens. BMI is a ...

They learned that a very low-calorie ketogenic diet can turn back epigenetic aging by more than 6 years. Obesity affects more than 40% of adults in the United States, and one of the health ...

Dr. Kedar Patil further added, “While calorie balance remains an essential component of weight regulation, obesity is a multifactorial condition influenced by diet quality, metabolism ...