Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Under the new framework, 18.8% of Americans previously classified as overweight would be reclassified as having ...

Nearly 3 out of 4 Americans are overweight (32%) or have obesity (40%). For years, both have been diagnosed using body mass ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A new Gallup poll says the majority of Americans don't identify as being overweight, despite health studies showing two-thirds of citizens are overweight or obese. The poll asked a ...

Children were more likely to undergo an evaluation if they had public insurance, had a higher BMI, had English as a primary ...

The results are in from the one of the largest and broadest surveys of health in the United States. And although many of the findings are encouraging -- more Americans had health insurance and fewer ...

The next time you get upset over your favorite new movie being sold out, go right ahead and blame the obesity epidemic! Due to weight gain over the past 20 years, American movie theaters have had to ...

LOS ANGELES - Good news for some in the high-BMI crowd: A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles, finds that some 54 million Americans who are labeled as obese or overweight ...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SOFIA MISELEM A couple of overweight people walk along the Glorieta de Insurgentes, in Mexico City, on January 28, 2010. Mexico is the country with most overweight adults and ...