Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have found both men and women tend to be heavier when married, with marriage increasing the risk of being overweight ...

Anti-obesity medications can significantly raise testosterone levels and improve health outcomes for men with obesity or type 2 diabetes, according to a new study being presented Monday at ENDO 2025, ...

VENICE, ITALY — Differences in how adipose tissue responds to insulin may account for why type 2 diabetes is more common in men than in women with obesity, according to newly presented data. A team of ...

Wedded to weight gain? New research shows a shocking link between marriage and excess pounds. A team from the National Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw, Poland, found that tying the knot can, in fact ...

Obesity rates among U.S. adults and children rose sharply in recent years, and by 2023, 40% of adults and 20% of youth met ...

Body size and excess weight, conventionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), are well-established risk factors for many types of cancer. However, new research to be presented at this year’s ...

Adult obesity in India is rising fast, with the proportion of men and women in the 15-49 age group who were overweight or obese up by 4.4 and 6.7 percentage points, respectively, in five years between ...

Men who carry excess pounds also carry an excess risk of pneumonia. Rates of hospital admission for pneumonia have been on the rise over the last decade. At the same time, more and more people ...

Waist circumference was shown to be a stronger marker than body mass index (BMI) for the risk of developing obesity-related cancers in men but not in women, a Swedish study showed. Data on BMI and ...

A decade ago, in March 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi first mentioned obesity in his 18th Mann Ki Baat address. Since ...