Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Being overweight as a child, teenager and young adult has been linked to a higher risk of bowel cancer in adulthood, researchers ...

Being overweight has long been linked to heart conditions and type 2 diabetes, but even people who look thinner could be at risk, researchers suggest. The findings, published in Communications ...

Excess weight in the waist area, also known as visceral fat, is a more accurate predictor of heart failure risk than total ...

A new study has concluded that being too thin can be more deadly than being overweight or mildly obese—and with researchers concluding it is possible to be 'fat but fit'. The scientists followed ...

Worldwide, there’s a growing number of adults classified as overweight or obese. Those categorized as overweight face higher risks of chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. At the same ...

Weight is an eternally-pressing topic, but conversations around GLP-1s and other weight loss drugs have brought it to the forefront even more. Body mass index (BMI) is the tool doctors use to ...

New research presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Annual Meeting 2025 suggests that people who are underweight or at the lower end of a “healthy” body mass index (BMI) face ...

A new study warns that obesity can double the risk of dementia. Belly fat, poor diet, and low vitamin D increase the danger, ...