New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for ...

Critics are once again questioning the efficacy of BMI as a tool for diagnosing obesity, suggesting that a more holistic ...

Cancer Obesity ... regional body fat, even those who have a healthy body weight and normal BMI,” said study’s senior author, Qibin Qi, an associate professor at the Albert Einstein College ...

A new study in The Journal of Immunology reveals how a high-fat diet may impair the immune system's ability to respond to infection by impacting the function of neutrophils, one of the first immune ...

Housemates from Who Are You Calling Fat? on bbc.co.uk/iplayer. In a recent NHS report, statistics showed 29 percent of adults in England are classified as obese. But what is it really like to ...

The mouse evidence: In one study, Zemel used mice that were specially bred to be obese. He fed the mice a high-fat, high-sugar diet for six weeks. All had a 27% increase in body fat. He then put ...

One third of those are obese. The impact on our health is devastating ... clogging and hardening arteries…. Excess body fat may also increase certain proteins in the blood that affect its ...

In other words, such studies will be able to test the Fat but Fit paradox using an experimental design. Future exercise-based randomised controlled trials conducted in obese population should ...

Researchers investigating the role of the protein CD44 in obesity and metabolic health found that CD44-deficient mice stayed lean even on a high-fat diet, while the control mice developed obesity.

In lean individuals, fat cells produce the hormone leptin, which suppresses appetite. But in most individuals with obesity, this signal fails to register. Why this happens has been a mystery for ...

In an average class of 30 ten and eleven-year-olds, six are obese and four more are overweight ... sugar”, which often translates as high fat, and “low fat”, which often means high sugar.