Scientists are exploring a counterintuitive approach to weight loss: making the body heavier. Rooted in military training, this approach hacks the body's internal scales to kickstart the metabolism.

Obesity is a public health problem that can increase an individual's risk of many other disorders including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and some types of cancer. Recently developed weight ...

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The High Court has identified a discrepancy between the weight of cargo vehicles recorded in logbooks and the actual weight in a legal battle over the overload menace. Justice Reuben Nyakundi said ...

Share on Pinterest A new study explains why low-fat vegan diets may be better for weight loss than Mediterranean ones. Image credit: Kseniya Ovchinnikova/Getty Images. Dietary acid load has to do with ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Starting Sunday, truck drivers heading toward Staten Island via the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will receive a $650 fine if their vehicle exceeds legal weight limits. The ...

Researchers find high-fat diets set off metabolic dysfunction in cells, leading to weight gain, but these effects can be reversed by treatment with an antioxidant. Consuming a high-fat diet can lead ...

Many factors lead to the frustrating cycle of weight gain and weight loss — but the driving force may be fat cells keeping a memory of obesity. That’s according to a recent study that was first ...

A U.S. senator said a GLP-1 drug changed his life — and now he's calling for widespread access to anti-obesity medications. In a New York Times op-ed on April 8, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., wrote ...

Feeling hungry on your diet? Fill up with lentils and beans. Kevin Soden, MD, shares the many benefits of legumes including, feeling full with less calories. Mary Trump issues warning on long-term ...

A higher body mass index (BMI) across all ages as well as significant weight gain during adulthood were associated with a greater risk for renal cell carcinoma, while a BMI reduction of 10% or more in ...