For decades, researchers from all obesity-related disciplines have been observing the escalating prevalence of people living ...

Over the past three decades, there has been a startling increase in the prevalence of obesity across the U.S., at least ...

In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, ...

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New research shows that weight loss medications can stop the progression of prediabetes. Experts don’t all agree on such a ...

The RESPOND trial adapted to COVID-19 disruptions by shifting to a cluster-parallel randomized design, enabling analysis ...

The report also found that obesity’s incremental annual cost on Canada’s health-care system was nearly $5.4 billion, which is ...

You may be able to prevent or delay diabetes by losing 5 to 7 percent of your starting weight. Use the Diabetes Risk ...

Dr. Perrin co-led a study that shows adding text messaging and digital feedback alongside traditional health counseling can help to prevent obesity in very young children. This, in turn, prevents life ...

Text messages and other online feedback can help prevent obesity in very young children ... pediatric office visits become less frequent past a child's first year of life, the researchers reasoned.

A health literacy-informed digital intervention improved child weight-for-length trajectory across the first 24 months of life and reduced childhood obesity at 24 months. The intervention was ...

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