obesity

Twenty years ago an expert panel at the NIH created a furor among obesity researchers by suggesting that the BMI cutoff point for a person to be considered overwe

In addition to the numerous metabolic problems (e.g. diabetes) associated with obesity, we can add problems with lung function.

Noting that about 30 percent of obese individuals are metabolically healthy (1), Dr.

Severe obesity (BMI = or > 40, or 35 if there are coincident health conditions) carries with it a variety of increased health risks, such as for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart problems.

Weight stigma is real. Overweight and obese people are the targets of bias at work, school, at the doctor's office, within personal relationships and in the media.

Back in 2012, we noted the good news that the prevalence of obesity and severe obesity in children served by federal food assistance programs had diminished.

It's common knowledge that as a country, we've been getting fatter for decades. In some states the prevalence of obesity is over 35 percent, as it is in adults over all, as shown in the graphic below.

Insulin resistance is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes, and occurs in more than one type of body tissue. For example, insulin-resistant muscle will not respond normally when insulin directs it to take up glucose from the blood.

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day, and if you habitually skip it are you dooming yourself to obesity and worse?

In a nod to science, Newsweek reported that there might be genetic underpinnings to obesity.