obesity

Children in Fukushima Prefecture have the highest obesity rates in Japan in seven age groups, education ministry statistics showed, a possible result of the restrictions on...

For those struggling with obesity, the dream of finding a pill that can magically make them thin seems tantalizing within reach.

Once, obesity was blamed on weak-willed people who tend to overeat. Today, researchers have been looking for possible genetic causes of obesity for about the past 10 years in...

It's lunchtime in Naha, Okinawa, and a city center restaurant hangs out a signboard advertising its "A Lunch," a set meal featuring tonkatsu (fried pork cutlets), fried fish,...

With a landmass of about 21 square kilometers, Nauru, located in the South Pacific close to the equator, is one of the smallest nations in the world, lying third after the...

LONDON--Health data released on May 16 provided the clearest evidence to date of the spread of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease from developed nations to poorer ...

LONDON - More people in developed countries are overweight or obese than ever before, dooming them to years of ill health, pushing up health care costs and piling more pressure ...

A type of protein believed to play a role in increasing blood pressure in overweight people was detected by a Tohoku University team, which hopes it could cure obesity.