Obesity levels off, but extreme cases tipping the scales. Nanci Hellmich. ... The percentage of people extremely obese rose from 2.8%25 in 1994 to 4.8%25 in 2004 to 6.3%25 in 2010; ...

Exercise may be even more important than the numbers on the scale for obese people looking to be healthier, a new study out of York University in Toronto has found.. The researchers gathered data ...

The global obesity Atlas estimates that more than 4 billion people worldwide, 51% of the global population, suffer from this disease.Out of the 41 million annual deaths in adults from non ...

The BMI scale is B.S. Roughly 54 million Americans — including the entire roster of the AFC Champion Denver Broncos — are healthy despite having body-mass indexes in the “overweig… ...

American researchers found that after bariatric surgery self-esteem scores rose to 77.5 from 33.6 – a more than 40-point increase. The higher the score on a scale from zero to 100, the higher the ...

However, we can talk about weight loss without reinforcing the message that a person's worth is based on a number on the scale. You can be obese and healthy, but you can also lose weight and be ...

If stigmatizing obesity worked, there wouldn't be an obese person in this country," said Joanne Ikeda of UC Berkeley, one of the nation's top nutritionists, at a recent San Francisco forum on ...

If obese people who drop their excess poundage are to be commended and given book deals, those who can’t manage it—well, let’s regard them as the child rapists and five-pack-a-day self ...

To determine the countries that now have more obese people than hungry people, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data on historical BMI estimates from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.