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Academics said that limiting sugar intake can have significant health benefits.

Is obesity hereditary? A choice? Influenced by other factors like poverty and mental illness? And does it even matter?

A panel of advisers to the WHO will review requests for drugs to be included next month

MAN v FAT Football is an FA-affiliated scheme that has helped men lose over 510,000 pounds of weight so far

According to a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism of the Endocrine Society, mothers with obesity may share the disease's risk with their daughters but not with their sons. Read further on Dynamite News:

For year six girls, the study found an 8% reduction in obesity, equivalent to preventing 5,234 cases of obesity per year in this group

A NORC analysis found that 42% of Americans are living with obesity, with higher rates in the Southern and Midwestern states.

More than 50,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with kidney cancer each year. Risks factors for developing this type of cancer include environmental exposures, such as smoking, high blood pressure, a history of kidney failure, obesity or not having a healthy weight. And there are also hereditary syndromes that…

It's not a rare disease, but it's rarely spoken about. Often, we won't even know we're suffering from it. Here's why.