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The Government and pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, the creator of weight loss drug Mounjaro, are teaming up to explore and ...

The Government has joined forces with the pharmaceutical giant that makes weight loss jab Mounjaro in a bid to tackle obesity ...

Overweight patients waiting for operations could safely use a particular type of weight-loss treatment to reduce the risk of ...

Eating excessive calories is 10 times more influential than sedentariness in driving the obesity epidemic, researchers say.

Registered dietitian nutritionist Carrie Dennett shares her thoughts on a recent study that names diet as the culprit in the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his 79th Independence Day speech on August 15, 2025, issued a strong warning about India’s accelerating obesity epidemic. He urged all families to reduce cooking ...

People enrolled in the military health care benefits program Tricare for Life no longer will be eligible for coverage of ...

The World Health Organization officially declared obesity a global epidemic in 1997, noting that rates had nearly tripled since 1975 — which is when experts believe the epidemic began.

A new report illustrates in stark terms how the obesity epidemic in the US has spiraled in the past two decades and pinpoints, on a state-by-state basis, where the largest increases have occurred ...