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The AAP issued guidelines delineating prevention and treatment of obesity in 2007, but the new recommendations are based on decades of evidence-based data on best practices for helping children ...

Obesity is a growing health concern, affecting more than 100 million adults in the United States alone, and its treatment options have evolved dramatically in recent years. Medications like GLP ...

A fat activist explains why she objects to the medicalization of larger bodies and the idea that obesity is a disease.

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Adverse events were frequent, and most were gastrointestinal-related, including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation.

Obese mice whose fat cells were genetically altered to produce an increased amount of the glucose-dependent insulinotropic ...

obesity affects nearly 20% of kids and teens in the U.S., and new guidelines suggest children struggling with the condition ...

"Medical treatment and prevention need to go hand in hand," says Dr Nazrat Mirza, one of the authors of the guidelines. "Obesity is a chronic medical condition and in addition to healthy lifestyle ...

Eighty percent of doctors in a Medscape survey answered no when asked, “Is enough known about obesity meds’ risk to ...

It’s long been known that prescribing dieting and exercise simply isn’t that effective as a treatment for obesity. People may slim down enough, at least initially, to prevent or help control ...