According to the CDC, over 20 million people in the US have chronic kidney disease. Those who are overweight or obese have a greater risk for chronic kidney disease and there’s an urgent need to establish what the proper ...

One of the biggest studies to evaluate lumbar spine disc degeneration discovered that adults that are overweight or obese are much more prone to get disc degeneration compared to those having a normal body mass index (BMI). Tes...

Vitamin D deficiency is usual in Americans, and particularly in overweight and obese teenagers, as reported by the National Institutes of Health. Researchers have discovered that giving obese teenagers a high daily dosage of vi...

A recent study of obese volunteers participating in a 12-week dietary weight loss program found that people having greater weight loss success had significantly higher resting nerve activity compared to weight loss resistant in...

It is widely suspected that the current wave of childhood obesity will result in greater rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes over the next few decades. But a second systematic review of research into childhood obesity ...

According to a study, sleeping under 8 hours per night could be related to teen weight gain. Also, obesity was related to short sleep length in male teens, with the least hours slept related to the top BMI levels. Sleeping is f...