Obesity Overview

Obesity can take an enormous toll on your physical and emotional health. Learn about the negative health impacts of obesity and how measuring your body mass index and waist circumference can help you identify obesity.

The Many Factors Influencing the Obesity Epidemic

Our food habits have shifted from home cooking to consumption of highly processed foods and beverages that are high in sugar and calories. People are spending too much time sitting while taking shortcuts on getting adequate sleep. Learn about the many interlacing factors that contribute to this complex health condition.

Obesity and Body Weight: Factors You Cannot Change

Some things that affect your weight, like heredity and metabolism, can’t be changed. But you can work with what you have and still maintain a healthy weight.

Obesity and Body Weight: Factors You Can Change

When it comes to your weight, there are some factors you can control. They include diet and exercise.

Sugar: Heart Health and Obesity

Sugar is dangerous for your heart health and can lead to obesity. But the damage is reversible.

Soda: Impacts of Drinking Regular and Diet Soda
on Gut Fat

Soda both regular and diet packs on the worst kind of fat.

More Sleep May Help Prevent Weight Gain

A new study finds that not enough sleep is linked to weight gain.

Weight Control: Does it Matter What Time you Eat?

Eating earlier in the day may help you in your weight loss efforts.

Prevent Cancer: Keep the Weight Off

Maintaining a healthy weight can prevent cancer.

Before Starting a Weight-Loss Program

Before you jump into a new diet and exercise routine, get a thorough medical evaluation.

Lifestyle Changes for Weight Loss

Permanently reshaping your lifelong attitudes toward diet and exercise is the key to successful weight management. If you are motivated and ready to lose weight, try these suggestions.

Healthy Eating Fundamentals for Weight Loss

The best way to succeed at losing weight is to create an eating plan you can stick to for the long term.

Healthy Eating Strategies for Successful Weight Loss

Here are 11 strategies for fashioning an eating plan to help you lose weight and keep it off.

Overeating

Learn how to uncover the hidden food traps that can lead to overeating.

Your Brain and Overeating

Your brain might be leading you on to eat more.

Sugar Substitutes: Do They Help You Lose Weight?

Questions persist about sugar substitutes' effect on weight—understand the research.

Sugar Substitutes: Are They Safe?

Here is the latest research on the safety of sugar substitutes.

Sugar Substitutes: The Various Types

What’s in the little yellow, pink, or blue packets?

The Best Diets, According to Experts

Looking for a good diet for weight loss, heart health, preventing or managing diabetes—or just healthy eating in general? Don’t worry, we have the rundown on the best diets out there.

Low-Fat vs. Low-Carb Diets

A new study reveals healthy versions of either diet can be winners.

Very-Low-Calorie Diets for Obesity

A very-low-calorie diet supplies fewer than 800 calories a day and requires medical supervision.

Lose Weight by Increasing Your Physical Activity

When you combine exercise with a reduced-calorie diet, the results are greater losses of body weight and fat than dieting or exercising alone.

Deceptive Weight-Loss Products

Here are four weight-loss products known for deceptive advertising and marketing.

Medications for Weight Loss

Taking medication to help lose weight can be an option when diet and exercise don’t work. Weight-loss drugs do not magically melt away pounds.

Bariatric Surgery Options to Treat Obesity

Bariatric surgery can help people lose weight. However, there are risks and complications to consider.

Other Surgical Options for Obesity

In recent years, the FDA has approved the use of several weight-loss devices, including implantable balloon systems and nerve blocking systems.