Being slightly overweight might not shorten your life, but being very thin might. A large Danish study tracking more than 85,000 adults has found that people with a BMI below 18.5 were nearly three ...

You can look great in a swimsuit and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy. A new study suggests that a surprising number of overweight people ...

Form Health, a virtual obesity care provider, launched a new program on Tuesday to prevent the shift from overweight to obesity. Boston-based Form Health already offers an obesity program for ...

The financial website Wallethub compared all 50 states and the District of Columbia to rank the most overweight and obese ...

Being overweight is nowhere near as big a killer as the government thought, ranking No. 7 instead of No. 2 among the nation’s leading preventable causes of death, according to a startling new ...

You can look great in a swimsuit and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy. A new study suggests that a surprising number of overweight people ...

NEW ORLEANS — Families in this area now have an opportunity to join a program geared to help children who are overweight. A mother said the program is changing the way they grocery shop, cook and eat, ...

Chubby cheeks and dimpled thighs have long been a mother's proof of a healthy, well-fed baby. But those roly-poly infants now may be a sign of something much different: America's growing problem with ...

Most of us in Western medicine systems know which category of the body mass index, the “BMI,” our body matches. Our medical providers and the printouts after each office visit often highlight it for ...

Health Care sector has shown recent relative strength in the last month after a poor start to the year versus the S&P 500. Vanguard Health Care sector ETF is recommended with low expense ratio and ...