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A global study found genetic variants that allow some people with obesity to stay metabolically healthier, identifying eight subtypes of obesity. The findings may enable personalised prevention and treatment strategies.

Experts urge consumers to read food labels carefully, focusing on serving size, calorie count, sugar, and fat content. The National Institute of Nutrition warns against misleading claims and stresses informed choices to reduce risks of obesity, heart disease, and allergies

Ultra Processed Foods (UPFs) are being blamed for rising lifestyle diseases like obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Experts warn they are high in fat, sugar and salt, and low in nutrition. Instant and fast foods also fall under this unhealthy category

A global study shows that using stricter obesity criteria requiring an existing health issue could drastically reduce obesity rates. Experts warn this could delay diagnosis and give a false sense of health, risking missed opportunities for early intervention and care

Instead of treating obesity as an individual’s problem, intervention strategies must consider the family as a unit and promote healthy lifestyles

While among healthy people, the heart’s age was found to be similar to the chronological age, for patients with diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and atrial fibrillation, the functional heart age was significantly higher

It is being billed by doctors as the best drug in weight management, compared to similar drugs available in the market

The study led by researchers from Copenhagen University in Denmark focuses on examining the link between a high body mass index (BMI) in childhood and COPD.

Aims at bringing together healthcare professionals, policymakers, and public and find sustainable solutions on weight loss

Due to unbridled access to junk food, childhood obesity among children has now become a major challenge for parents, public health specialists and policy experts.

Weight gain varies widely across the globe with more than half of the world's adults with overweight or obesity in 2021 living in just eight countries: China (402 million), India (180 million), the US (172 million), Brazil (88 million), Russia (71 million), Mexico (58 million), Indonesia (52 million), and Egypt (41 million).

With one in every eight people being overweight, India is staring at an obesity epidemic

Coutinho says ''we need to have regulation and awareness about junk food for children and adults, which is contributing towards the obesity epidemic''

This comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday in his "Mann ki Baat" programme nominated 10 personalities to push the campaign against obesity in the country, as part of his 'Fit India' initiative

According to a study published in Lancet, a large number of India's urban and rural population has been categorised as overweight. India stands at third place after the US and China with highest number of obese people

While extra sleep can temporarily ease fatigue, it doesn’t reverse the cognitive and metabolic damage caused by chronic sleep deprivation

The findings of a long-term study, published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, showed that men with cardiovascular disease risk factors can have dementia onset a decade earlier -- from their mid-50s to mid-70s -- than similarly affected women who are most susceptible from their mid-60s to mid-70s

Published in Cell Reports, the study could pave the way for innovative treatments for type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases by promoting the differentiation of fat stem cells into smaller, healthier fat cells. Researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) were the first to reveal that obesity hampers the body's ability to produce essential cellular components known as ribosomal factors.

While each of us should aim to be fit as a fiddle, how we achieve our fitness goals is the real question. With Ozempic and Wegovy becoming a global rage, here's what experts have to say about using semaglutides for weight loss

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is known to increase stroke risk on its own. A recent study in the European Heart Journal revealed that individuals with kidney failure are significantly more likely to experience a heart attack or stroke and face a higher risk of death as a result.