Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time in a decade, adult obesity in the United States dropped last year, a new study has found, and researchers are ...

The US has a higher obesity burden than most countries, with 40% of adults living with obesity, leading to significant public health initiatives. The US leads in early-stage obesity drug development, ...

For the first time in over a decade, obesity rates in the United States may finally be heading in the right direction and new weight loss drugs like semaglutide could be part of the reason why. A new ...

Obesity rates in the United States have finally started to show a decline, heading in the right direction for the first time in a decade likely due to the popularity of weight loss drugs like Ozempic.

For the first time in more than a decade, the number of states with rates of obesity of 35% or more dropped, an encouraging sign that America’s epidemic of excess weight might be improving. But cuts ...

America’s obesity rate is on the decline, a new Gallup poll published Tuesday shows, falling nearly three percent as the use of popular GLP-1-class diabetes and weight loss drugs has surged. There are ...

Two new studies are highlighting a dark picture of the obesity epidemic in the United States: one shows the number of obesity-related deaths is on the rise and the other projects a continued increase ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The percentage of adults with obesity increased by 13.6% from 2010 to 2020. The percentage of those with severe ...