If you’re among the roughly 75% of people who are overweight in the United States or among the approximately 40% who are obese,[1]#1 rest assured that the odds are in your favor of having a safe ...

In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, ...

Obesity has reached an epidemic proportion in India and has been linked to several health issues such as diabetics, heart ...

Firstly, will being overweight affect your chances of falling pregnant? And secondly, are there any problems being pregnant if you don't lose some weight? From the available research, it is not ...

Women who are pregnant and also have the ovarian cyst disorder polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are at higher odds of giving ...

The findings were somewhat surprising, Vanky said, because "women who are generally overweight and gain a lot of weight ...

This research was supported by Roche Diagnostic Operations Inc. (project number 208617–5074547) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute for Minority Health and Health ...

In order to ensure that high quality healthcare can be delivered, it is important to consider this fact when discussing overweight and pregnancy risks. We used Cox regression models to compare ...

Instead of suggesting ways that Overweight can ask for help from her brother to walk or “shed the extra pounds,” perhaps you could suggest that she tell her brother that her body is ...

Jayne R. Rice; Gloria T. Larrabure-Torrealva; Miguel Angel Luque Fernandez; Mirtha Grande; Vicky Motta; Yasmin V. Barrios; Sixto Sanchez; Bizu Gelaye; Michelle A ...