Artificial sweeteners have increasingly replaced sugar in many foods and beverages. However, their long-term health benefits remain unclear.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease also reduces obesity.

The brain chemical oxytocin appears to make people feel full and reduce overeating. Can it encourage weight loss?

Getting healthy and reducing mortality risk, increasing physical activity and improving fitness appear to be superior to weight loss.

Study links healthy plant-based foods with lower risks of getting of COVID-19 and of having severe disease after infection.

Statistics from the CDC show that obesity affects more than 40% of American adults, placing them at higher risk for heart disease and stroke

Having a structured environment for children, whether during school days or when stuck in quarantine, could benefit children’s health.

For decades, there has been an accepted definition of dieting in academia, and in society as a whole.

Cutting just 250 calories a day with moderate exercise reaped bigger rewards than exercise alone for older, obese adults.

A new study from the University of Kansas in the journal Appetite examines people’s choices when confronted with an all-you-can-eat buffet.

A seemingly unremarkable observation — greasy hair — showed Penn researchers how the immune system could be targeted to reverse obesity