The Latest Breaking News from Obesity

Smoking habits in adolescent men could alter genes in offspring associated with respiratory and obesity issues, suggests research 

Soaring demand for two weight-loss wonder-drugs developed by a Danish pharmaceutical company is having a knock-on effect on the whole of Denmark’s economy.

The health of people with diabetes, hypertension and obesity improved when they could get free fruits and vegetables with a prescription from their doctors and other health professionals.

According to new research presented at the ESC Congress 2023, semaglutide improves heart failure-related symptoms and physical function and results in greater weight loss compared to placebo in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and obesity. Read further on Dynamite News:

People taking weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy report a dampening of the urge to drink. Here's how the drugs curb cravings and what that could mean for helping treat addiction.

If it wants to avert the obesity crisis, the next government must put physical education firmly back on the curriculum

Twitter owner Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian are rumoured to have used weight loss jabs

For the study, researchers compared cancer incidence and mortality stratified by obesity and non-obesity-related cancers, sex, cancer stage and procedure

The risk of cancer in women, who represent the majority of individuals who undergo bariatric surgery, was most greatly decreased

Stimulating the vagus nerve is being hyped as the simplest way to reduce stress, dampen anxiety – and could even curb obesity. But what exactly is it? And how does tickling your ear help?

Is Ozempic a special, life-saving medication? Or does it merely enable a new, more insidious form of fatphobia?